NEIGHBORS : Rabbit Redux : There’s more to the bunnies in Tony Giaimo’s logo for Conejo Valley Days than their natty attire.

Newbury Park’s Tony Giaimo has done it again.

For the ninth time in the past 18 years he has designed the logo to be used for the Conejo Valley Days celebration. His artwork was selected earlier this month to be used for the 35th annual event in April.

And as with logos that Giaimo (and other artists) have created in the past, the focal point of this one is rabbits. (After all, conejo is Spanish for rabbit .)

The 1992 rabbits are male and female square dancers. She is dressed in an attractive red dress; he has on blue jeans, a blue vest and a yellow shirt. But don’t think these bunnies are all natty attire and no substance. They have very distinct personalities.

“They’re pretty funky little guys,” Giaimo said. He recalled rabbits that he designed for Conejo Valley Days back in 1976, which were similar to this year’s version. “They had the same kind of attitude. They were feisty, cantankerous.”

If it’s the end of January, Ojai’s John Hannah must be a busy man.

He’s one of the nation’s relatively few experts on poet Robert Burns (1759-1796). And with Burns fans throughout the country celebrating the bard’s Jan. 25 birthday, he’s in great demand.

Hannah’s itinerary over the next few weeks:

On Saturday he will be at the Scottish Society of Santa Barbara celebration. On Jan. 25 he’ll address a group in St. Louis. The weekend after that it’s on to a private party in Beverly Hills, and the following weekend he’ll be at a function in Orange County.

Hannah’s talks and poetry readings will cover a variety of Burns-related topics. But the most attention-grabbing will probably be his Santa Barbara tribute to Scottish cuisine. To be more precise, Hannah will recite Burns’ “Address to the Haggis.”

What’s a haggis? Glad you asked. It has something to do with sheep parts. Hannah described the preparation process--in a little too much detail. “First you need a compliant sheep,” he said. “Having slain it you remove its stomach, its heart, its lungs and liver. You chop all the filling up and add in toasted oatmeal and quite a lot of black pepper. It’s all crammed into the stomach bag, which is thoroughly cleaned.”

Though it probably never occurred to Burns, Hannah said the haggis can be microwaved. Steaming, however, is preferred.

With a haggis in front of him, Hannah will read Burns’ “Address,” which extols the virtues of haggis. The poem says that haggis exemplifies the Scottish spirit, an ability to make something out of nothing. “People will be addressing this lowly piece of offal all over the world,” Hannah said.

So is haggis an acquired taste? Not to Hannah, who grew up in Perthshird County, Scotland. But for Ventura County residents, haggis may be a bit more difficult to chow down. “Anything less ‘California’ would be hard to imagine. It’s high in fat, high in cholesterol,” Hannah said. “There are such things as vegetarian haggis, but I wouldn’t even deign to notice them, let alone address them.”

By the way, Hannah added, “I don’t think the USDA really approves of haggis.”

Happy birthday to the Newbury Park branch of the Thousand Oaks Public Library. On Sunday it will have been at its 2855 Borchard Road location for one year. The branch previously operated out of a portable building, also on Borchard Road.

The new facility, it seems, has had quite an impact in this short time. Steve Brogden of the Thousand Oaks main library said about 165,000 people came through the doors in the first year, as compared to 50,000 people a year entering the portable branch. He said the library branch circulated about 125,000 books last year, compared to about 66,000 annually before the move.