VENTURA

Senior health fest set for Saturday

A festival devoted to health and wellness for seniors is scheduled for Saturday.

Sponsored by the county Human Services Agency, the Elder Health & Wellness Fest is set from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 1001 Partridge Drive, Ventura.

Organizers said the free event will offer information on healthcare services, health and nutrition products, exercise programs and other services to enhance quality of life.

Scheduled to appear are 45 organizations, including hospitals, assisted living and home health agencies, adult day care centers, the American Red Cross and the American Cancer Society.

The SCAN Health Plan will offer memory training at 12:30 and 1:30 p.m., and demonstrations of yoga for seniors at noon and 1 p.m.

Those activities will be offered at the SCAN office, also at 1001 Partridge Drive.

This is the first year the event has been offered.

The idea came from members of a public authority that recruits, trains and operates a registry of caregivers.

Members of the authority determined that many seniors don't know about available services, said Ivonne Aguilar, the social worker organizing the festival.

The site for the festival is in a parking area beside the Human Services Agency's headquarters, near Telephone Road and Partridge Drive.

CAMARILLO

School district official to leave

Camarillo's Pleasant Valley School District announced Monday that an additional top administrator plans to leave.

Assistant Superintendent Jan Maez, who oversees the K-8 district's fiscal and administrative services, is stepping down to take an assistant superintendent's position in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, Pleasant Valley Interim Superintendent Luis Villegas said Monday.

District officials did not have an exact date for her departure, but Villegas said he expects her to stay through the first week of October.

Maez, who came to the district in 1990, follows Assistant Superintendent Barbara Davis, who resigned several weeks ago to take a job in the Moreno Valley Unified School District. Both women are moving to larger, K-12 districts.

Villegas, hired on an interim basis this summer, said he is working to develop a transition plan for a district that has undergone "notable changes" recently.

Interim Superintendent Ken Moffett resigned and left the district in May after a months-long struggle with parents over school closures. Moffett replaced former Superintendent Thomas Dase, who left at the beginning of the 2006-07 school year to lead a San Jose district.

OJAI

Paraglider hurt after landing at school

An Ojai paraglider was injured over the weekend when he crash-landed at a Fillmore schoolyard, authorities said.

Paraglider Michael Preston, 55, flew off Chief's Peak north of Ojai and crashed onto the grounds of Fillmore Middle School at 543 A St. about 2:15 p.m. Saturday, sheriff's Capt. Ross Bonfiglio said.

Preston was treated at Santa Paula Hospital and later released, hospital officials said. The school was not damaged.

Paragliding is a sport in which people fly suspended under parachute-like wings, sometimes over long distances. Unlike parasails, which are towed behind boats, some paragliders are powered by small motors worn by the pilot.

RENO, NEV.

Simi pilot hurt in race is out of hospital

A Simi Valley pilot involved in a plane collision on Friday has been released from a Reno, Nev., medical center, a spokesman said Monday.

Renown Regional Medical Center on Monday discharged pilot Jason Somes, who was in "good condition," spokesman Dan Davis said.

Somes' plane apparently was clipped by another aircraft at the Reno National Championship Air Races, based on initial reports from the scene. Somes was able to land his damaged aircraft.

The pilot in the other plane — five-time defending champion Gary Hubler, 51, of Caldwell, Idaho — died in the crash. It was the third fatal accident at the races in four days.

Somes, 36, had several injuries, including cuts and scrapes, a twisted ankle and injuries near his eye, according to Steve Barber, a friend who visited Somes in Reno.

VENTURA

Police seek two suspects in stabbing

Ventura police were looking Monday for two men suspected of stabbing a man outside a bar Friday night in the 1000 block of Scandia Avenue.

Police said Richard Snyder, 21, got into an argument with the two men outside DJ's about 11 p.m. The group got into a fight, and Snyder was stabbed in his left hip, police said.

Snyder was treated at a local hospital, police said. His attackers were gone by the time police arrived.

Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call Ventura police at 339-4394.

NEWBURY PARK

Charity basketball game to aid family

Ventura County sheriff's deputies are scheduled to face off against county firefighters tonight in a charity basketball game to benefit Sandra Ruiz.

Ruiz, 33, of Newbury Park spent about two weeks in intensive care after she was critically injured Aug. 12 in a meat cleaver attack that killed her 6-year-old son, Sev'n. Calvin Sharp, a former boyfriend, was arrested at the scene and is scheduled to be arraigned Sept. 28.

The basketball game is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. today at Newbury Park High School, 456 N. Reino Road.

Charles White, who won the Heisman Trophy in 1979 as a University of Southern California running back, plans to be at the game, said sheriff's Detective Eric Buschow.

Tickets are available at the door for $10.

All proceeds will go to the Sandra Ruiz Family Fund, established by the District Attorney's Crime Victim Assistance Program, Buschow said. Donations are also being accepted at www.sandraruizfamilyfund.org.

OAK PARK

Pipeline rupture closes part of road

A recycled-water pipeline ruptured Sunday under the westbound lanes of Kanan Road, east of Lindero Canyon Road in unincorporated Oak Park, releasing an estimated 45,000 gallons of water, officials said.

A westbound lane of Kanan Road will remain closed for several days while repairs are made, officials said Monday.

The 16-inch-diameter pipe broke shortly after midnight, a few hundred feet west of Kanan Road and Los Arcos Drive, said Calleguas Municipal Water District officials.

"At this point, we expect repairs will be completed and the roadway fully restored by the end of the week," said Donald R. Kendall, general manager of the district. While repairs are made, one westbound lane will be open for traffic at all times, and both eastbound lanes will be open as usual.

The pipeline, constructed of polyvinyl chloride, is part of the district's Oak Park-North Ranch recycled-water system, which serves the North Ranch Golf Course, area homeowner associations, roadway medians and other greenbelt areas.

An automated monitoring system closed valves and shut down a pump station to minimize water loss soon after the pipeline broke, Kendall said.

The district's drinking-water delivery system operates separately from the recycled-water system.

SIMI VALLEY

Residents scare off would-be burglar

Simi Valley police said a burglar was foiled early Monday when confronted by the residents.

Residents of a house in the 1800 block of Bishop Lane called police about 5 a.m. to report a burglar in their home, police said. Awakened by noises in their living room, the residents yelled at the man, who ran away without taking anything, they told police.

Police searched the area but could not find the burglar.

OXNARD

Firefighters put out oven fire at bakery

Oxnard firefighters extinguished a small fire over the weekend at the Maple Leaf Bakery on Statham Boulevard, authorities said.

The flare-up began shortly before 8:40 p.m. Sunday when some insulation in the bakery's oven caught fire, Oxnard Fire Battalion Chief Darwin Base said.

The oven was being superheated to clean it, he said.

Firefighters put out the fire in about 10 minutes.

No one was injured, but the fire caused about $50,000 in damage, said Deborah Shane, a spokeswoman for the Fire Department.

— From staff reports