LASTING GIFTS: Speaking of presents, the Ventura...

LASTING GIFTS: Speaking of presents, the Ventura Pier maintenance campaign has been pushing $100 commemorative planks as “the ideal stocking stuffer.” Now you can weigh down your mantel--symbolically, anyway--with bricks to aid the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza (B1). Cost: $50. . . . You can also put a name on a theater seat ($1,000), on the small theater ($1 million) or on the big theater ($2 million).