Cabrillo Village Celebration SetA celebration to commemorate the purchase of Ca-brillo Village in Saticoy by the families that live there, will be held at the village this Saturday.VThe celebration will start with a Mass in Spanish at 11 a m at the village, off Lemon Avenue, then be followed bvWmusic. Mexican folk dances and Mexican foodCesar Chavez, president of (he I mted Farm Workers of America, is scheduled to speak at the festivities and the public U invited.The UFW was involved in the efforts of 80 village families to purchase Cabrillo Village fromfhe Saticoy Lemon Association. The village residents recently received the deed (or theproperty Before the residents raised almost $82,000 to buy the village, it had faced the threat of being bulldozed State inspectors found numerous violations of thehealth and safetv codes and•*ordered the village he brought up to code or closed Saticoy Lemon Association then said it would be too expensive to rehabilitate the structures and gave eviction notices The 300-plus residents then banded together and came up with the monev to buv thew Wvillage and save it from fhe bulldozer Some families had lived there for 30 vears
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