Seminar teaches women about empowerment
| September 20, 2013
The Thousand Oaks Police Department and California Lutheran University will present “Empowered: Take Charge of Your Health and Safety,” a free event to educate to women on the dangers of...
Dress codes reduce distractions for students
By Stephanie Sumell
ssumell@theacorn.com | September 20, 2013
When it comes to what adolescents are wearing these days, Mary Gutierrez sees the good, the bad and the ugly when she drops off her 13-year-old twin boys at Chaparral...
YMCA offers free classes and pool for youngsters
| September 20, 2013
September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month and the Conejo Valley YMCA wants to help families in Thousand Oaks and Moorpark live better and help prevent childhood obesity by incorporating...
Moorpark marching band to perform on Lancerfield
| September 20, 2013
A marching band field show exhibition, the sixth annual Sounds of Conejo, will take place at 7 p.m. Sat., Oct. 5 at the Thousand Oaks High School Football Stadium, 2323...
The Movie Nut
| September 20, 2013
Set in the Texas Hill Country of the 1970s, “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” lingers like a Texas sunset, taking its time, lengthening its shadows, bleeding out its colors, slowly covering...
Four Seasons Hotel offers meal easy as 1, 2, 3
By John Loesing
newstip@theacorn.com | September 20, 2013
Eating lunch at the Westlake Village Four Seasons’ Lobby Lounge Restaurant— perched above the hotel’s serene grounds and soothing courtyard waterfall— it’s hard to imagine how any guest could feel...
For lovers of Gilbert and Sullivan
| September 20, 2013
Ventura County Gilbert and Sullivan Repertoire Co. will present “Ruddigore,” or the “Witch’s Curse,” from Sept. 27 through Oct. 20 at Hillcrest Center for the Arts’ Theatre on the Hill,...
Go, go, go, Joseph
| September 20, 2013
Camarillo Skyway Playhouse presents the classic musical “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” as part of its 2013 season. Performances run Fri., Sept. 20 through Sun., Oct. 27. Show times...
Congregation sets roots in park
By Stephanie Sumell
ssumell@theacorn.com | September 20, 2013
Members of Grow Community Church don’t need a roof over their head to worship. They just need each other. “In the biblical understanding, a church is a group of people...
Pets welcome at church
| September 20, 2013
Ascension Lutheran Church will host “A Blessing of Our Pets” service at 5:30 p.m. Sun., Oct. 6 in the church’s upper parking lot at 1600 E. Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks....
Sheriff’s Blotter
September 20, 2013