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The Right Start Inc., a Westlake Village marketer of merchandise for infants and young children, blamed reduced catalog sales and the cost of relocating a warehouse for some of its losses in its latest quarter. The nationwide retailer had a net loss of $628,000, or 10 cents a share, on sales of $10.5 million in the three months that ended Nov. 29. This compared with a loss of $1.4 million, or 23 cents share, on sales of $11.8 million in the same quarter a year earlier.

A former volunteer crisis-intervention worker was sentenced to a 360-day jail term Wednesday for sexually molesting a 16-year-old boy who sought help from the service. Gene Randall, 56, of Camarillo was also ordered to pay $15,273 to reimburse the boy's family for the teen-ager's hospitalization, counseling and continuing therapy, said Sandi Wright, a clerk for Ventura County Superior Court Judge Charles McGrath. Randall also received five years' probation.

Don Lelo Ely, a retired Navy commander, has died at age 83. Ely died Aug. 3 at Pleasant Valley Hospital in Camarillo. He was born Aug. 28, 1916, in Maquoketa, Iowa. He was a great-great-grandson of Ulysses S. Grant. After high school, he attended Los Angeles City College and received an associate of arts degree, before going to USC as a premed student. While a student, Ely joined the Navy in February 1941 and began a 21-year military career.

A man who helped rescue a woman from her burning condominium last month will be honored at tonight's City Council meeting. Michael Malloy, whom Ventura County Fire Department officials say dragged 42-year-old Belinda Tristan to safety from her burning home, will receive a certificate of commendation from the city. Malloy was doing some work on a friend's door near Tristan's condo in the 2000 block of Avenida Refugio just after 9 a.m. Sept.

* Boskovich Farms in Oxnard has hired Stephen Seabolt as sales manager at the company's Oxnard headquarters, and Matt Cava will have that position in the Salinas office. They will work together coordinating sales efforts between the two offices. Boskovich Farms, founded in 1915, grows, ships and processes fresh produce. * Ed Miller has been promoted to vice president of operations at Camarillo Community Bank. He will oversee operations at the bank branches in Camarillo, Oxnard and Westlake.

Kaiya Ann Myers, a 13-year resident of Camarillo, died Tuesday from injuries sustained in a car accident. She was 25. Myers was born in Northridge, but moved to Van Nuys shortly thereafter. In 1984, she moved to Ventura County, where she lived until her death. "She was one of the most responsible people you'd ever meet," said Myers' longtime companion, Scott Lewis. "A lot of people looked up to her for being able to raise a son on her own and go to school and work."

Shortly after the giant First Interstate Bank announced last year it would gobble up the 113-year-old Bank of A. Levy, Marshall Milligan--Achille Levy's great-grandson--wrote an opinion piece lamenting the death of community banking. "Community banking is a cottage industry designed to go the way of blacksmiths and butcher shops," wrote Milligan, A. Levy's president at the time. He predicted more mergers, buyouts and closings of smaller banks.

The Camarillo Chamber of Commerce will take an outspoken and proactive approach to local, state and federal legislative issues in the coming fiscal year, according to the head of the group's newly elected executive committee. Local businessman Gary Cushing also said the chamber will try to maintain close communication with other local chambers of commerce to present a louder Ventura County voice to government officials.

Camarillo will celebrate its 25 years as a city with dancing, races and entertainment in a celebration this weekend. The city was incorporated by 2,402 voters on Sept. 29, 1964. Camarillo's annual Fiesta will be off to a running start Saturday with a 5K and 10K race and a 5K fitness walk. Runners will compete in 12 categories, with two divisions for men and women. The event begins at 8:30 a.m. at Adolfo Camarillo High School, 4660 Mission Oak Blvd.

John "Tim" Gill of Somis, a carpenter and stock car driver at Ventura Raceway who was well-known among the local racing fraternity, died of a heart attack Wednesday while working in Camarillo. He was 39. Gill had driven in the mini stock class for about five years. The raceway phased the classification out this year, so he modified his Pinto for his wife, Fran, who is racing in the pony stock class, said his brother-in-law, Gary Elliott of Simi Valley.