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Citizen journalism as we know it at the Ventura County Star has changed. With the new year comes a new site. We've moved to VenturaCountyStar.com/YourNews. Along with the new location, we have a new print format and new opportunities ...with the same citizen journalism concept: news about and by YOU. That's why we're calling it YourNews. What changes, besides th...
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Citizen journalism as we know it at the Ventura County Star has changed. With the new year comes a new site. We've moved to VenturaCountyStar.com/YourNews. Along with the new location, we have a new print format and new opportunities ...with the same citizen journalism concept: news about and by YOU. That's why we're calling it YourNews. What changes, besides th...
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In a time when slogans seem to be, well, just slogans, it's really nice to find a company that backs up what it says. Honda has recently had a slogan that goes something like this, "We just want to be helpful." Imagine my surprise when a group of Honda employees showed up at my office door offering their help. The five young adults, dressed in blue Honda shirts, carry...
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Provided by: John Baxter

A funny thing happened this year with Valley View's Christmas gift collection. The donations rose over five times last year's gift giving. The difference, according to Judi Hibbard, Valley View PTSA chairperson, was who received the gifts. In past years a gift-giving box, placed in the school's main office, was filled and the donations collected were then sent to a...
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Sign-ups are underway for the Simi Valley Family YMCA's co-ed flag football league. The 8-week season runs from January 10 through March 2, 2008. Teams are formed based on age. The Y-Rookies league will contain two age divisions: ages 4 and 5, and 6 and 7. The Y-Winners league will have three divisions: ages 8 through 10, 11 through 13 and 14 through 16. No tryouts a...
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