2019-08-30
A glowing evening
COLORFUL DISPLAY—Hot air balloons were on display and available for tethered rides during Glow, a dining experience presented by Simi Cares Foundation at Rancho Santa Susana Community Park on Sat., Aug. 24. Proceeds from the event will go to the Simi Valley Free Clinic. At left, Brea resident Joe Vertrees holds a tethered line for one of the hot air […]
Council adopts meeting protocol
FREE Rules dictate proper decorum, allow mayor to limit public-speaking timeFollowing a series of raucous, lengthy meetings, Simi Valley city leaders have voted to adopt written protocol governing council meetings. Simi was one of the only cities in the county without such rules. “While oral tradition may have worked in the past, as our community has evolved, it makes sense to document those procedures,” Deputy City Manager Samantha Argabrite said. […]
Rotary Club putting Cajun Fest on ice
Upbeat blues and zydeco music, flavor-packed food, lively dancing and colorful garb evoke vi s ions of Mardi Gras. But those traditions won’t be coming back t o Rancho Santa Susana Community Park next year. After three decades of rocking it Cajun style, the Rotary Club of Simi Valley Sunrise announced Wednesday that it will take a break from staging […]
Potential censure draws warning from attorney
FREERipple effects produced by the outcry over a video posted on social media last month by Councilmember Ruth Luevanos are still coursing through the community. On Aug. 14, Luevanos was officially served with a Notice of Intention to Circulate a Recall Petition for allegedly violating the city’s code of ethics and conduct. The notice came from Joe Piechowski, one of […]
Contest rewards brevity
In today’s world of apps, where the writing and thinking are often done for you, the Simi Valley Acorn places high value on personal creativity. One of the newspaper’s most popular and enduring competitions is Fiction in a Nutshell, and this year the longtime contest returns. Entries are being accepted for the 2019 Fiction in a Nutshell competition, which calls […]
Answer to recycling woes is not to stop recycling
EDITORIALThere’s been a lot of news coming out of the recycling world in recent months, none of it good. As you’ve probably heard, China has stopped accepting all kinds of plastics, papers and other products, leaving America’s waste haulers without a place to sell their reusable items. With nowhere else to turn, millions of tons of discards with the potential […]
Impressed with Rep. Hill’s work
I want to thank the Acorn for sitting down with Rep. Katie Hill and asking her about some of the nation’s most pressing issues. Every single topic in the article affects Simi Valley residents directly. In 2018, the majority of us decided that we needed a congressperson who would demand aggressive climate action. The representative has started down this path […]
Not fit for the presidency
Recently, presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren tweeted out accusations that the 2015 death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., was a “murder” at the hands of a white policeman. Murder is defined as the unlawful, killing of one human being by another. These comments by Harris, a former prosecutor, and Warren, also a lawyer, were purposeful and calculated […]