Special Kids Day at Conejo Valley Days
Friday May 8, 2009

View photos from 2008 Special Kids Day

Once again the Zonta Club of Conejo Valley Area hosted a successful Special Kids Day event to the delight of 300+ developmentally challenged children. The children were treated to a day of carnival rides accompanied by a special volunteer who escorted them around the Conejo Valley Days Fair Grounds. Zonta Club members saw to it that the children were provided with hats, bottled water, lunches and snacks through the generous donations of time and food from local citizens, organizations and businesses, and the volunteers themselves received coffee, donuts, and bottled water.

Each child had the opportunity to have their photo taken around the grounds either on a ride, with one of the Shriner clowns, on a police motorcycle or in a police car to take home as a souvenir. Due to the larger number of students attending this year, we found ourselves seeking volunteers from many sources. Our club actively sought out volunteers at the Conejo Valley Days' Interservice Club Luncheon. We are especially grateful to the students from Thousand Oaks High School for committing their time to our event. Local clubs such as Thousand Oaks, Conejo Valley and Westlake Rotary Clubs, Kiwanis, Elks and many other service clubs, groups and individuals helped contributed time, food or money to our event. The Ventura County Fire Department and Sheriff Department and American Medical Response all provided vehicles and personnel for the children to explore and talk to Special thanks to Todd Stevenson, owner of Kay's Gourmet Catering for providing all the coffee for our volunteers and to J.D. Powers, McGraw Hill Companies, Shamrock Shows, Blue Cross of Conejo Valley and Adelphia for their support. We have so many sponsors and donors to thank.

Zonta Club of Conejo Valley
Thanks the Following for Their Support in 2008

Platinum Sponsors:

J.D. Powers - Mc Graw-Hill Company

Gold Sponsors:

Dr. Kathleen Bradley
Donna Miller
Shamrock Shows-Joey & Chantal Blash
Thousand Oaks Rotary Club
Woodland Hills Shriners’ Clowns

Silver Sponsors:

Dorothy Alberts
American Medical Response
AMGEN
Yvonne Bradley
Debbie Brantley
Walter & Sharlen Caldwell
Rich Cisowski Insurance
Classic Reproductions
Costco – Westlake Village
C.V.D. Site Crew 2008
Leo & Lorraine Dennis
Doyle Shaw Ice
James & Melodie Dunn
Nancy & Herman Estrada
Mrs. Field's Cookies-The Oaks Mall
GE Realty-Donna Ericson & Kendra Sherrill
Ron & Linda Gerber
Kay’s Gourmet Catering – Todd Stevenson
David M. Kelley
Heather Kelly & Wasabi the Therapy Dog
Lister Rents
Genie R. Lownsdale
Barbara Ann McCool
“Mc Donald’s” Park Oaks Plaza –Moorpark Road
“Mc Donald’s” Wendy Drive, Newbury Park Rd
Mary Lou & Vern Miller
Montenegro Construction Company
Pacific Beverage
Pepsi Distribution-San Fernando Pepsi
Platinum Party Rentals
Douglas & Jacalyn Ryan
Gary Salute
Neal Scribner Architecture
Stan's Donuts
Thousand Oaks Elks Lodge #2477
Thousand Oaks High School
Thousand Oaks Kiwanis
Thousand Oaks Police Department
Time Warner
Trader Joe’s – Westlake Village
Ventura County Fire Department
Ventura County Sheriff Department
Western Bagels – Westlake Village
Frank Williams-Thousand Oaks Auto Center