DUFFERS’ DELIGHT: As the county tees off...

DUFFERS’ DELIGHT: As the county tees off its plan to stop subsidizing public parks with profits from Channel Islands Harbor (B1), it is swinging away at ideas to raise money for recreation. . . . And the answer seems to be: golf, golf and more golf. . . . A staff report lists five projects that could help make the parks self-sufficient by 2002. Three are proposed golf courses--at Camarillo Regional Park, Toland Park and Happy Camp Regional Park. Fore!

KIDS AND FUN: The Camarillo Boys & Girls Club is in an unmarked building, but youngsters know where it is. . . . The posh facility has almost finished a $1.5-million expansion that includes a parking lot, stage, kitchen and space for a teen center. . . . About 175 kids a day are already swarming the place, but two projects remain to be completed: a big sign outside and a “contributors wall” honoring those who made it possible. . . . Ceremonies are planned for June.

KIDS AND AIDS: Surviving the teen years probably hasn’t been this hard since the Pleistocene. . . . A group of Thousand Oaks High School kids is working to educate their friends about the latest fear for young people: AIDS (B1). . . . So far, Ventura County has only five AIDS cases under age 20. . . . “But you have to remember the majority of people in the 20-to-29 age group acquired it during the teen years,” public health nurse Martina Melero said. There are 119 cases in that age group, 20% of the county’s total.

DANGER: Your Southern California Edison bill contains an eerie warning for those who remember last month’s burning of a Newbury Park teen who climbed an electrical tower on the Conejo Grade. . . . With the word DANGER! superimposed over a picture of a tower, the leaflet warns against touching power lines. . . . But the reminder is not a response to the recent accident. “This is a regular thing we do every year,” an Edison spokesman said. The photograph “is not the [fatal] tower and is not meant to represent the tower.”