Go online for healthy eating tips
     Photo courtesy of Jerry Taylor NUTRITION NETWORK—Community members celebrate at the launch party for www.kidshealthcafe.com at Cafe Firenze Monday evening. The new website, created by restaurant co-owner Fabio Vivani, offers parents advice and information on good nutrition, health and alternative medicine. The site is planned for full development next year.
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Counseling offered for financial issues
      The Counseling Center at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks has witnessed an increase in the number of people calling the center to report a wide range of psychological problems and a pressing need for affordable counseling as a result of the economy's effect on families.
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Stay calm during an earthquake
      Residents of Southern California need to think about what they will do during a major earthquake. Will they panic, dial 911 or a law enforcement office, and finds it's too late to get help because communications are already down? Residents could be on their own for days, camping out at a house, stuck in a car, or at work.
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Benefit for care home
      A fundraiser to create a residential care home will be held at 7 p.m. Fri., Nov. 14 at North Ranch Center, 1400 N. Westlake Blvd., Westlake Village. Out Community House of Hope will be a residential care home for terminally ill patients in the last three months of life.
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