EXTRA RIBS: Good cause plus outdoor festival...

EXTRA RIBS: Good cause plus outdoor festival plus barbecued ribs and chicken equals . . . leftover ribs and chicken. The Rev. Luther McCurtis sold only 100 of his 400 servings at the Ventura Fourth of July street fair, so he froze the remainder and is holding another fund-raiser today7 for the Employment Aptitude and Placement Assn. . . . From 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Fellowship Hall of Ventura’s Total Life Christian Center, 660 N. Ventura Ave. . . . EAPA seeks to ease poverty through employment. Info: 656-8614.

SENIOR HONOR: So many Thousand Oaks senior citizens do volunteer work that the city decided to honor the busiest. . . . The 1995 Senior of the Year is Forest Goetsch, 74, who has been most involved in helping rebuild the earthquake-damaged Janss Road library. . . . “It’s just to let them know their efforts are appreciated and their contributions do make a difference,” said Steve Cragle of the city manager’s office.

DUKES OF PIRU: At every turn on the increasingly traveled road to Lake Piru (Ventura County Life, Page 6), you expect to meet a dusty guy named Festus. . . . But despite the Old West scenery, this is no pioneer lake. Piru Creek was dammed in 1955, displacing several families; divers still explore the foundations of the old schoolhouse. . . . And while Lake Piru is a backdrop for movies with Western themes, it may be best known as the setting for a cultural watermark of the deep South: the “Dukes of Hazzard” TV series. Ride ‘em, Cooter.

TERN TERN TERN: July 4th may be hard on your dog, but it’s worse on the county’s beach birds (B1). . . . Every year, terns get skittish at the noisy merrymaking and abandon their young. This year, state wildlife managers stood guard. Said David Anderson: “All this weekend I’ve been down here monitoring people, not terns.” Anderson’s actual job title: bird monitor.