I find it surreal to have the huge Station Fire burning out of control at the east end of Los Angeles County, and here we sit near the west end of the county with basically clean air. It is 4:30 PM, and I just checked the Los Angeles County Fire Department website for the latest stats. The fire [...]
Entries from August 31st, 2009
The Giant Station Fire in Los Angeles County
August 31st, 2009 · 1 Comment · California
Tags: pyrocumulus·Station Fire
What’s Happening in the Conejo the Week of August 31
August 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Conejo Valley
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 Calleugas Municipal Water District board meeting at 6:30 PM at Calleguas Headquarters, 2100 Olsen Road, Thousand Oaks. Agenda: http://www.calleguas.com/agenda.pdf THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 Agoura Hills Planning Commission at 6:30 PM at the Agoura Hills City Hall, 30001 Ladyface Crt, Agoura Hills. Agenda: http://ci.agoura-hills.ca.us/?page=34&recordid=806&returnURL=%2findex.aspx Conejo Recreation and Park District board of directors meeting at 7:30 PM [...]
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An Oak Tree on a Morning Walk
August 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Conejo Valley, Green
We are so blessed with magnificent oak trees in the Conejo Valley, that an alternate name for where we live could be Oak Valley. Or, we could use the Latin name for oaks, which is Quercus, except that doesn’t have as good a sound to it as conejo. About five years ago, I took a [...]
Tags: Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area·Satwiwa
What Better Combo than Horses and the Conejo?
August 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Conejo Valley
A horse show at the Conejo Creek Equestrian Park is half over this Saturday evening, but that means there is still half to go tomorrow. According to an announcement in The Ventura County Star’s 8-28 Timeout section, the event is called, Show for the Gold and it is sponsored by the Greater Los Angeles Paint Horse Club. [...]
A Kennedy Conejo Connection
August 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Meditations, Oak Park
My friend, Sue wrote the following, and I wanted to share it with you: “In the mid sixties, takng a shortcut to a seminar through one of the old U.S. Senate office buildings, I got lost. Continuing to move rapidly, I solidly collided with two men stepping off a rickety old brass-cage elevator in a [...]
A Frolic at the Janss Dancing Fountains
August 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Meditations, Thousand Oaks
Do you ever just want to act like a kid? That was where I was today, as I went shopping at the Janss Mall this afternoon about 3 PM. I got out of my car in the parking lot, and was hit by, what felt like, a wall of hot air. The air quality was not [...]
Tags: Janss Mall Fountains
Smashing Pumpkins may be a Good Name for a Rock Band…
August 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Green, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village
I remember that when I lived in the Pacific Northwest years ago, the rock band, Smashing Pumpkins was really big.  Cool for the name of a rock band, but lousy as action taken in a community garden! According to an article in the 8-27 Thousand Oaks Acorn, vandals broke into the Las Flores Garden, on Avenida de Las Flores by [...]
Federal Money Going to Local Project!
August 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Agoura Hills, Green, Lake Sherwood, Oak Park, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village
 Federal challenge grant money has been awarded to the JPA partnership of Triunfo Sanitation District (TSD) and Las Virgene Municipal Water District (LVMWD) for a recycled water pipeline project! The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation is granting the partnership close to $1.95 million dollars, although $150,000 has to be set aside to make sure that the project [...]
Tags: Las Virgenes Municipal Water District·Triunfo Sanitation District
