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Ladera Ranch Civic Council Meeting Tonight

The Ladera Ranch Civic Council will meet tonight. Tonight’s agenda includes the upcoming State of the Community presentation, the recent Ladera Business Expo, Oso Grande Elementary School traffic and an update from the Local Governance Task Force. The Civic Council meeting is at 7 PM in the Boardroom at the Santa Margarita Water District building, [...]

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Final Names Selected for Rancho Mission Viejo School; Don Juan Ortega Casts His Vote

According to this article in the Capistrano Dispatch, the Capistrano Unified School District has narrowed down the list of names for the new K-8 school that will be built in Planning Area 2, the Village of Esencia, in Rancho Mission Viejo. Among the finalists are:

Barbara L. Banda, a local woman who helped bring Native [...]

http://www.ranchoortega.com/blog/archives/4068

Ladera Ranch Civic Council Will Meet Next Monday, March 17

From the Ladera Ranch Civic Council:

The Ladera Ranch Civic Council will hold its monthly meeting 7:00PM, Monday, March 17, 2014 at the Santa Margarita Water District Building located at 26111 Antonio Parkway.

The Honorable Anna Bryson, Trustee for the Capistrano Unified School District, will be addressing the Council on educational issues affecting our state, [...]

http://www.ranchoortega.com/blog/archives/3845

Ladera Ranch Civic Council Meeting Tonight

The Ladera Ranch Civic Council will hold its monthly meeting tonight. On the agenda, courtesy of the Civic Council:

The Ladera Ranch Civic Council will hold its monthly meeting 7:00PM, Monday, February 17, 2014 at the Santa Margarita Water District Building located at 26111 Antonio Parkway.

The Honorable Anna Bryson, Trustee for the Capistrano Unified [...]

http://www.ranchoortega.com/blog/archives/3806

Ladera Ranch Civic Council Sponsors Oso Grande Traffic Survey

The Ladera Ranch Civic Council is sponsoring a traffic survey for families of Oso Grande Elementary School. In a message addressed to Oso Grande parents, the Civic Council says: “Please look for a survey in your child’s Thursday folder from the Orange County Public Works. They are collecting anonymous data from our parents in order [...]

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Ladera Civic Council Meeting on Monday

The Ladera Ranch Civic Council meets Monday, November 18 at 7 PM. Meetings are held at the Santa Margarita Water District Building in the Board Room. On the agenda for Monday’s meeting is:

Oso Grande Traffic Presentation: Oso Grande Elementary parents are encouraged to attend Monday’s meeting. There will be a presentation by the County [...]

http://www.ranchoortega.com/blog/archives/3296

Summary and Analysis of Last Night’s Ladera Ranch Civic Council Meeting

The Ladera Ranch Civic Council has published a summary of last night’s meeting. We want to thank the Civic Council for promptly and thoroughly disclosing the substance of the meeting. We are quick to give them a hard time on some things, but we also want to be equally quick to acknowledge when they are [...]

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Ladera Ranch Civic Council Meets Tonight at 7 PM

The Ladera Ranch Civic Council meets tonight. On the agenda are the following topics:

Traffic issues around Oso Grande Elementary. (There is a presentation from the County scheduled for next month’s meeting). A recap of the 2013 Civic Council election results. The Council will continue the tabled discussion on Council Member endorsements of Civic Council [...]

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Congratulations to Capistrano Unified’s Top Teachers

According to a Capistrano Unified press release, fifty-six teachers out of more than two thousand have been selected by their colleagues as the top educator at their schools. District winners will be announced in March and recognized at the annual Teacher of the Year celebration, and three winners – one each at the elementary, middle [...]

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Press Release “Announces” the Launch of RanchoMissionViejo.com

“New Development Gets New Website” says the headline on the San Juan Capistrano Patch today. Perhaps Rancho Mission Viejo Company “officially” announcied its newly redesigned web site yesterday, as the Patch article says, although the website first went live a month ago. Our regular readers knew about www.ranchomissionviejo.com back on November 14th when it actually [...]