The Davidon builder of Sedona, the newest community in Dos Vientos will host a brokers open to kick off the sales of their new homes. Davidon homes is finally getting close to opening the gated neighborhood of Sedona. It is the last tract of Dos Vientos to be completed.

The grand opening is set for May 16th but they are having a preview opening on May 2nd and a private showing for real estate agents and their clients sooner.

The homes will range from 4,456 square feet to over 5,900 square feet and the anticipated pricing will be from the low $1,400,000 to the high $1,600,000's.

If you would like more information or would like to accompany me on the agent open house, please call me.

Joanne Nelson
Prudential Calfornia Realty
805-857-0897
jnelsonrealestate@gmail.com

The Acorn

• Love remembered
  
  By Sylvie Belmond

  belmond@theacorn.com

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  Jan. 24, 1986, Los Angeles Police Officer Bob Farley was training a new recruit in pursuit maneuvers at the L.A. County Fairgrounds in Pomona when their car slammed into a retaining wall at 70 miles per hour.

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• Calabasas wants better disaster preparation
  
  By Sylvie Belmond

  belmond@theacorn.com

  Preparing for disaster is one of those things that’s often put off till tomorrow. But, without warning, tomorrow may be too late.

  At a Jan. 23 meeting, members of the Calabasas Public Safety Commission expressed disappointment about an apparent lack of interest from community members in preparing for emergencies.

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• Westlake man sentenced in fatal shooting
  

  A Westlake Village man convicted of fatally shooting a Pasadena art college instructor at a 2010 party was sentenced last week to 21 years in state prison, the District Attorney’s office said.

  A Van Nuys Superior Court jury convicted Steven Ronald Honma, 56, of one count of voluntary manslaughter last November for the killing of Norman Schureman, a 50-year-old Altadena man.

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• Red Oak Elementary sock hop a trip back in time
  

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• Open, collaborative process
  

  The Las Virgenes Metropolitan Water District—like other water agencies but unlike most local government—carries wide-ranging power and authority, including the ability to issue building permits and to proceed with infrastructure projects without obtaining consent from cities and other entities.

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• Cartoon
  

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• Organ transplant awareness
  

  I just had to write after seeing last week’s Acorn article on the kidney transplants and want to thank you for bringing this to people’s attention.

  Fourteen years ago I donated my right kidney to my father, who was 68 at the time. He was on home dialysis, four times per day.

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Ventura County Star

• Missed conference, retirement letter probably led to colleges' probation, officials say
  The commission that put Moorpark, Oxnard and Ventura colleges on probation didn’t explain exactly why it made the move, but several college officials are pretty sure they know.
• Technology fuels surge in telemarketing calls
  The FTC is seeing a rise in violations of the National Do Not Call Registry as telemarketers make use of VoIP technology.
• Preps top ticket for the week of February 19, 2011
  Basketball headlines this week's top prep ticket picks
• Shively exhibit shows artist's impact on Santa Paula community
  The Santa Paula Art Museum is currently exhibiting the works of longtime resident Douglas Shively.
• Police seek man in indecent exposure case
  Ventura police said a man exposed himself to two juveniles around the intersection of South Ashwood Avenue ad Maple Street Monday afternoon.
• Simi Valley man charged with stealing from friend's estate
  A Simi Valley resident was arrested and charged with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a close friend who died in 2005, Senior Deputy District Attorney Marc Leventhal said.
• 26th Congressional candidate plans to run as independent
  Akiva Werbalowsky of Ojai, an announced candidate in the 26th Congressional District, said Monday he will seek the office as an independent, rather than as a Republican, as he had previously indicated.

Los Angeles Times

• San Francisco's torch song still burns brightly
  Baghdad by the Bay prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Tony Bennett's hallmark ballad, although it was dethroned by a song from the 1936 film 'San Francisco,' belted by Jeannette MacDonald.
  
  Reporting from San Francisco -- At the stroke of noon on Tuesday, music will blast out over the shoppers in Union Square and the homeless people in Hallidie Plaza. The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus will chime in from the City Hall rotunda, along with the big-hatted belters from Beach Blanket Babylon . Radio stations have been asked to preempt the midday news.
  
  
  
• Houston found underwater in hotel bathtub, authorities say
  Investigators collected several bottles of prescription drugs from Whitney Houston's suite at the Beverly Hilton. Detectives are still piecing together the last hours of the singer's life and are awaiting toxicology results.
  
  Whitney Houston was found underwater in the bathtub of a Beverly Hills hotel suite, authorities said Monday as they continued to investigate her death, including examining prescription drugs found in her room.
  
  
  
• Nonprofits fear money in center's care vanished
  About 200 small California groups may have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in donated funds.
  
  More than 200 nonprofit groups, from animals rights organizations to political activists, said most of their donated funds appear to have vanished after the organization that watched over the money suddenly ceased operations last month.
  
  
  
• A mysterious King of Hearts rules over the Hollywood Hills
  Long, meandering explorations of Hollywoodland reveal a trail of painted hearts and so much more that is invisible to the harried drivers of our teeming streets.
  
  I am in search of the King of Hearts. Day after day, I try to trace his meandering trail through the hills.
  
  
  
• Horse trainer is on a ride for their lives
  Karin Hauenstein, 39, a 'hobo on horseback,' comes from campfires and corrals, not concrete. She's clip-clopped south from Santa Barbara County, traversing Hollywood on her Thoroughbred Glory to protest the commercial slaughter of equines.
  
  When Karin Hauenstein led her three horses down Vine Street, the girls in short skirts stilled their stiletto-heeled sashays, the incense hawkers stopped calling out to passersby, and Trader Joe's shoppers gaped through the glass at the convoy clip-clopping up the far right lane.
  
  
  
• Activists press council to ease truancy fines
  Rally at Van Nuys City Hall urges lawmakers to revise policy allowing LAPD to cite students who are late to school. The ACLU says the law unfairly targets Latinos, blacks and low-income students.
  
  The two groups of high school protesters — one dressed as graduates with caps and gowns, the other donning orange jail jumpsuits — huddled together outside Van Nuys City Hall on Monday chanting: "Pre-med! Pre-jobs! Not pre-prison!"
  
  
  
• Bullet train gets White House backing on funds
  The Obama administration asks Congress for $35 billion in passenger rail funding over five years as Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood urges California to overcome opposition to project
  
  The Obama administration, which has been urging California to push through growing opposition to its bullet train project, asked Congress on Monday for nearly $35 billion in passenger rail funding over the next five years.