Here are school start dates, hot off the internet! In Thousand Oaks, Conejo Valley Unified School District started today, August 30. Both Las Virgenes Unified School District and Oak Park Unified School District start Wednesday, September 1. There go those lazy, hazy days of summer, that is, if we ever had them this summer! There [...]
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School Days
August 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Agoura Hills, Conejo Valley, Education, Lake Sherwood, Las Virgenes, Meditations, Newbury Park, Oak Park, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village
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How is the Conveyance System?
August 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · California, Conejo Valley, Lake Sherwood, Oak Park, Santa Susana Field Lab, Triuinfo Sanitation District, Ventura County, Water Issues, Westlake Village
I spent the end of last week at a California sewage agency conference. With the sanitizing of words, it is actually called the California Association of “Sanitation” Agencies, “Ensuring Clean Water for California.” One of the most interesting sessions was called “New Strategies for Renewing Wastewater Conveyance Systems,” which means, “How are you going to take [...]
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Take a Tour and See how Wastewater is Treated
August 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Agoura Hills, Conejo Valley, Lake Sherwood, Las Virgenes, Oak Park, Thousand Oaks, Triuinfo Sanitation District, Water Issues, Westlake Village
If you live in the Triunfo Sanitation District or Las Virgenes Municipal Water District, you are invited to a tour to see partnership’s wastewater treatment and composting facilities in Calabasas. I know that a first thought about such a tour might be that it would be boring, but that is not the case! It is interesting [...]
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Let’s Hear It for the Candidates!
August 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Conejo Valley, Elections, Lake Sherwood, Oak Park, Thousand Oaks, Triuinfo Sanitation District, Ventura County
With the filing period closed for the November election, it is time to do a candidate count. There are two especially crowded political races in Ventura County. At the Ventura County Elections Division website, there are thirteen candidates listed as filing to run for the Thousand Oaks City Council, with three seats up for election. [...]
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Filings and Papers for Triunfo And OP MAC
August 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Conejo Valley, Elections, Lake Sherwood, Oak Park, Thousand Oaks, Triuinfo Sanitation District, Westlake Village
This evening, I did a check at the Ventura County website on Triunfo Sanitation District candidate papers and filings, along with Oak Park MAC. Here is the latest, as of August 2nd. For TSD, incumbent Janna Orkney has filed (hey, that’s me!), along with Ray Tjulander of T.O., and Phil Janke, Michael McReynolds, and Ron Stark [...]
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Congratulations Conejo Valley, for Water Conservation
July 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Agoura Hills, Conejo Valley, Lake Sherwood, Las Virgenes, Newbury Park, Oak Park, Thousand Oaks, Water Issues, Westlake Village
All the water agencies for the Conejo Valley report that ratepayers cut back their water use by 15 % or more for the year ending June 30! This is a big deal, because it means that throughout the year, we all made small decisions to use less water, that added up to that 15% reduction. The [...]
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Ladies, Run for Office!
July 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Agoura Hills, Conejo Valley, Elections, Lake Sherwood, Las Virgenes, Newbury Park, Oak Park, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village
It occured to me, going over the list of potential candidates, that over half the population is not making a very good showing. Yes, I am talking about women! Traditionally, it seems, at least as many women as men run for school boards, but that is not true for city councils, park districts, and sewer [...]
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Da Latest on Da Candidate Filings
July 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Conejo Valley, Elections, Lake Sherwood, Newbury Park, Oak Park, Thousand Oaks, Ventura County
Please allow me some license with the headline! Even though I am reporting on serious stuff…who is filing for what, I am in a Hawaiian frame of mind with the balmy breezes blowing today. Getting serious, as of 4:15 today (Wednesday) there are now eight potential candidates who have taken out papers for the three [...]
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Let’s Talk Compost
July 19th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Agoura Hills, Conejo Valley, Green, Lake Sherwood, Las Virgenes, Oak Park, Thousand Oaks, Triuinfo Sanitation District, Ventura County, Westlake Village
Residents of Agoura and Agoura Hills, Oak Park, Calabasas, Westlake Village, Lake Sherwood, and North Ranch can pick up free compost every Saturday at a facility on Las Virgenes Road, that is jointly owned by Triunfo Sanitation District (TSD) and Las Virgenes Municipal Water District (LVMWD). I have. It is a good feeling to shovel the compost [...]
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Triunfo Going To All-Elected Board
July 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Conejo Valley, Elections, Lake Sherwood, Oak Park, Thousand Oaks, Triuinfo Sanitation District, Ventura County
Finally! After years of effort, Triunfo Sanitation District will hold it’s first election for an all-elected board this November! I am so pleased! Four years ago, one of the reasons I ran for the Triunfo board (and won), was to work to make the board truly represent the residents, by requiring that all five board [...]