Having a ball at the Strawberry Cup
      SO CLOSE- Camarillo resident Caleb Funk, 9, smiles and jumps in the air moments after he barely missed heading the soccer ball into the goal during a game at the AYSO Strawberry Cup Tournament in Camarillo held May 19 and 20. Caleb's teammate on the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kyle El Zarif, 10, pats ...
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CSUCI professor wins biotech award
      Dr. Ching-Hua Wang, professor of biology at California State University at Channel Islands, received the 2007 Andreoli Biotechnology Service Award from the CSU Pro gram for Education and Research in Biotechnology. "Dr.
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17 Camarillo students receive scholarships
      Seventeen students from Camarillo schools were among the 404 local recipients who received a combined $1 million in scholarships last week from the Ventura County Community Foundation. The Camarillo scholarship recipients are Nina D. Abierra, Margaret K.
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Enter 4-H photo contest
      The Ventura County 4-H and Junior Master Gardeners Program and the Ventura County Fairgrounds are sponsoring an agriculture-themed photography contest open to youth who reside in Ventura County.
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Teachers to take flight to Turkey
By Michelle Knight knight@theacorn.com
      Turkey fascinates Linda Legman. The teacher attended a seminar about Turkey at Cal Lutheran University recently and was surprised to learn that the government is secular, despite being a nation where nearly all the 71 million residents are Muslim.
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Libraries launch teen reading program
      Youth can get ready for a summer of reading fun at their local library by signing up for the Ventura County Library 2007 Summer Reading Programs- Get a Clue @ Your Library for children through middle school and YNK: You Never Know for students in middle school and above.
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Somis student takes 2nd place at State Science Fair
      Jessica Winter won second place in the cognitive science category at the California State Science Fair in Exposition Park last month. Her project was "The Placebo Effect of Food Labeling." Jessica is a sixth-grader at Mesa Union Junior High School in Somis. She qualified for the state competiti...
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