BRIEFLY.Park district wins award for design SIMI VALLEY Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. -- The Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District's design of Vista del Arroyo Park received a 2006 Award of Excellence for Outstanding Park Planning from the California Parks and Recreation Society. Vista del Arroyo Park is a 3.3-acre park along the Arroyo Simi SIMI Sea Ice Mechanics Initiative SIMI Search for Intelligent Monkeys on the Internet SIMI Students Islamic Movement in India SIMI Society of Irish Motor Industry SIMI Smallholder Irrigation Markets Initiative near Sequoia and Royal avenues. The park has picnic tables, barbecues, a basketball court, playgrounds for small children, a gazebo gazebo Lookout in the form of a turret, cupola (small, lanternlike dome), or garden house set on a height to give an extensive view. Few late-18th- and 19th-century rustic gazebos survive, but 17th-century turrets built up in an angle of the garden wall are not uncommon. , meandering walkways, wooden pedestrian bridges, a streambed streambed or stream channel Any long, narrow, sloping depression on land that had been shaped by flowing water. Streambeds can range in width from a few feet for a brook to several thousand feet for the largest rivers. made out of river rock and granite boulders, native plants and other elements to create a natural link to the adjacent arroyo. The park's entry is decorated with mosaic tile murals created by Ojai artist Debra Letitia, featuring an egret egret (ēgrĕt`), common name for several species of herons of the Old and New Worlds, belonging to the family Ardeidae. Before they were protected by law the birds were nearly exterminated by hunters seeking their beautiful, white, silky and red-tailed hawk along with animals and plants typically seen along the arroyo. -- Daily News Strathearn Park in need of docents SIMI VALLEY -- Volunteer docents are needed to help visitors learn about the history of Simi Valley at Strathearn Historical Park. The park at 137 Strathearn Place is a small village of historic buildings, including an adobe home dating back to the Spanish settlements in the area. The Simi Valley Historical Society has scheduled evening training sessions for Feb. 6, 8, 13 and 15 from 7 to 9 at the park to teach volunteer docents about the legacy of the past. For more information, call society President Karla Hubbell at (818) 388-3301 or the museum at (805) 526-6453. -- Daily News Hospital upgrades computer services SIMI VALLEY -- New computer services are available at Simi Valley Hospital Simi Valley Hospital (SVH) is a Seventh-day Adventist hospital located located in Simi Valley, California. SVH is a member of Adventist Health. New Construction Simi Valley Hospital is in the process of building a new wing to the hospital. and wireless Internet access is expected through all of the hospital's main buildings by this fall. Patient confidentiality patient confidentiality Medical practice A Pt's right to privacy and freedom from public dissemination of information that the Pt regards as being of a personal nature. See HIPAA, Medical privacy. is protected under the new Project IntelliCare system, which includes network access for 70 mobile carts through most hospital areas. The system, which is already in operation and will be expanded late this year or early next year, allows physicians to download patient data to handheld computers that also hold the doctors' calendars and other information. The hospital's new patient care tower that is expected to open this fall will also include the new computer access for doctors, plus some of the 65 wireless Internet access points in the hospital system for patients and visitors. -- Daily News |
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