Religion Briefs

* St. Matthew’s United Methodist Church in Newbury Park will have a seven-week course on Positive Discipline from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday beginning this week.

The course is designed to give parents the opportunity to share problems that arise in the daily routine of parenting a child and to find common-sense solutions.

The cost is $50 per family. Child care is available for a fee.

The church is at 1360 S. Wendy Drive. For more information, call 498-6910.

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Branch 380 of the Italian Catholic Federation will hold a meeting at 6:30 p.m. Friday at St. Paschal Baylon Church in Thousand Oaks. All Italian Catholics are invited to join the group.

The church is at the corner of Janss and Moorpark roads. For more information, call 492-9658.

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The congregation of St. George’s Anglican Church has elected its board of directors for the year.

John Gillespie of Santa Barbara will be senior warden, and Ronald Ryan of Moorpark will be junior warden. William Henry of Oxnard will be clerk of the vestry, Thomas Brooks of Ventura will be treasurer, and Lisa Evetts of Ventura is a vestry member.

St. George’s traditional Anglican services follow the 1928 Book of Common Prayer and are held at 10:30 a.m. Sundays in the chapel at 6300 Telephone Road in Ventura.

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Religion Briefs usually runs on Saturdays. The three briefs above appear today because they were excluded from Saturday’s feature. Please submit items at least a week in advance to Religion Briefs, Los Angeles Times, 93 S. Chestnut St., Ventura 93001. Items may be faxed to 653-7576.