BEWARE OF MUD: Warnings were tacked on...

BEWARE OF MUD: Warnings were tacked on to La Conchita homes as sheriff’s deputies prepared to stop patrolling the little coastal village with the big crumbling hillside (B1). . . . “Our insurance company’s not truly stupid,” homeowner Mary Lou Olson said. “They’re going to find out our house is in that area and pull our insurance. Then the county’s going to pull our security. When someone breaks in and steals everything or burns it to the ground . . . what are we going to do?”

GETTING WIRED: The Conejo Valley Chamber of Commerce proudly posted its billboard on the information superhighway with a new Internet home page (B4). . . . Meanwhile, the Board of Supervisors is cut off from the on-ramps. . . . Supervisor Frank Schillo says he moved into his new county office to find that his PCs are not even connected to the county’s main computer. “I was appalled,” he said, vowing to plug in the board.

HOLIDAY FEAST: Like many Jews in Ventura County, Rabbi Yitzchak Sapochkinsky shops for prescribed foodstuffs for the traditional Passover meal (B1). . . . Meanwhile, Temple Etz Chaim in Thousand Oaks has been giving out food to needy families. . . . “One guy came in here who’s been out of work for months. He had tears in his eyes. I gave him matzo and tuna,” Rabbi Shimon Paskow said. “Nobody should be without matzo and wine. That’s the biblical law.”

HOLY ROLE: She spotted the man she needed strolling at a church carnival four years ago. . . . “I said (to my friend), ‘This guy’s perfect, the long curly hair, very tall and lean, and he had the beard and the mustache,” recalls Clara Ramos, coordinator of Oxnard’s annual Passion Play. “We went running after him, and we were very excited. . . . We said, ‘We need you to play Jesus.’ ” Saul Aguilar agreed. He will re-enact the day of crucifixion beginning at noon today at Christ the King Church on Cooper Road.