Going shopping
      I don’t like shopping. I might even say I hate shopping. I prolong clothes shopping for myself for as long as I can, sometimes wearing shredded pants, faded shirts and sole-flapping shoes until my wife is so embarrassed to be around me that she drags me to the store.
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Group gives baskets of cheer to those in need
By Joann Groff joann@theacorn.com
      Wicker baskets? Extra ribbons? One too many cans of corn? Brenda Hagen wants it all. Throughout the year, Hagen and a group of friends all over the Conejo Valley are on the lookout for supplies to decorate baskets and food and toys to fill them.
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