Global LeaderPrincipal Marilyn Mosley of Laurel Springs...

Global Leader

Principal Marilyn Mosley of Laurel Springs School in Ojai has worked for years with the United Nations Global 500 Forum, and now she’s been named chairman of the international environmental group. . . . Mosley assumed the post earlier this month at a conference in London. She will coordinate projects among worldwide winners of U.N. Environmental Program awards. Laurel Springs, an all-online school, won one in 1990 for a student film called “We Can Make a Difference.”

An Earful

The Thousand Oaks City Council may be asking for trouble, holding a town meeting Tuesday night for residents of Newbury Park (B1). . . . One gripe will concern the city’s new assessment district for landscaping and lighting. Rich Messina of Newbury Park owes about $7 to the fund, which doesn’t bother him as much as the dark forces he sees behind it. “It’s all interwoven,” he says. It all comes back to “money that was wasted on the Civic Arts Plaza. It’s all very upsetting.”

Comeback

A new pride is creeping into Oxnard’s South Winds neighborhood now that its community park has been transformed from drug hangout to soccer mecca (B1). With a recreation center in the works, hope is running high. . . . But neighborhood council Vice Chairman Joe Fernandez has a starkly ambivalent view of the progress: “I don’t think South Winds is the most dangerous neighborhood in the city [anymore]. I think any part of the city is dangerous now.”

Sign, Sign

So they finished the new restaurant on the Ventura Pier, a symphony of redwood siding and ocean-green glass, and then they stuck Them up there: big banners that say “Now Open.” The kind they put up at burger joints and discount stores. . . . “Ahem,” said architect Roy Colbert when asked about the blemishes on his baby. “Hopefully, the banner is short-lived,” he finally said. Colbert didn’t design signs for the building; that’s left to the restaurant’s operator.