Local Jews celebrate start of Hanukkah
     Photos by IRIS SMOOT/Acorn Newspapers FESITVAL OF LIGHTS BEGINS- Above, Jeffrey Prince, music specialist at Temple Etz Chaim, sings classic Hanukkah songs with local kids and families as Rabbi Richard Spiegel, right, lights a giant menorah during the temple's Hanukkah celebration at the Simi Valley ...
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Sharing the message of a 'simple Christmas'
By Angela Randazzo Special to the Acorn
      This Christmas season, the Rev. Jeff Cheadle of Simi Valley Presbyterian is sending a message of simplicity. Through a series a sermons that began last Saturday and will continue until Christmas Eve, Cheadle said he hopes to remind churchgoers of how to find true happiness for the h...
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Church presents Christmas play, holiday concert this weekend
      Lighthouse Bible Church will present a Christmas drama titled "Circumstantial Evidence" and a concert featuring the church choir and orchestra at 7 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 7, 8 and 9 at 4910 Cochran St., Simi Valley.
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