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A volunteer community group called Californians Organized to Rescue Education (CORE) has joined forces with the 12th District Parent-Teacher Association to oppose Gov. Schwarzenegger's proposed education budget cuts. The two groups will host a fivedistrict superintendents' forum at 4:30 p.m. More ... The Ventura County Sheriff's Department is implementing a new program in which jail inmates may be eligible to receive credits for school, vocational training and substance abuse courses. These jail credits will be used to reduce their court sentences. More ... Simi Valley resident Aubulghasem Ahmadpour, 58, was recently convicted of seven felony counts of filing forged instruments, and passing forged instruments with intent to defraud. The evidence presented during the trial revealed that Ahmadpour became involved in a series of business disputes with three different sets of victims. More ... The City of Simi Valley's Tree Advisory Board will hold its eighth annual Arbor Day program starting at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 5 at the Veterans Plaza in Rancho Tapo Community Park, 3700 Avenida Simi. More ... Last year, Metrolink's board of directors approved annual fare adjustments of 3.5 percent for three years. Due to the rising cost of diesel fuel, scheduled increases in costs for operating services contracts and new startup costs for additional passenger cars in 2009, the board is considering a fare increase of up to 7. More ... GRIEVING- Local resident Marisa Skoczylas, 17, strings a garland of silk flowers across a handmade sign as Cortney Jones, 22, lights a candle beneath an impromptu memorial created on a railway post near the train crossing at Los Angeles and Sequoia avenues on Tuesday. The girls' close friend, age 17, was killed at the crossing last Friday when she was struck by an Amtrak train. The Ventura County Medical Examiner's office has since ruled the incident a suicide. It is the newspaper's policy not to publish the names of suicide victims. IRIS SMOOT Acorn Newspapers More ... Access to public records from California state or local government is now available through an Internet service. Sacramentobased Californians Aware, a nonprofit open government advocacy group, is offering "SunScribe." It can be accessed on the CalAware website, www. calaware. More ... The head of the county's transportation agency said last week a half-cent sales tax in Ventura County could ease traffic-clogged freeways and get commuters home earlier. More ... Internal Revenue Service Assistance Centers in the counties of Kern, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Ventura will be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. More ... The Ventura County Fire Department is seeking persons for the Volunteers in Prevention program, which assists with a variety of community education tasks and helps the department during major emergencies. The VIP program will conduct a volunteer orientation from 9 a.m. to noon Thursday, April 3. More ... The United States Department of Homeland Security announced recently that the application period for (FY) 2008 Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG). Applications began being accepted Monday, March 3. The deadline for submission is Friday, April 4. More ... |
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