Ventura County supervisors are holding budget hearings today. Staff writer Charles Levin (clevin@VenturaCountyStar.com) will cover the afternoon hearings with county department heads and the evening hearings with the public. The board may adopt the budget before the day's over. Charles will stay with it to the end.

Also for Page One tomorrow, sports writer Loren Ledin (lledin@VenturaCountyStar.com) brings us the story of the Bednar family. Tim Bednar is the longtime boys' basketball coach at Moorpark High School. This week, though, his thoughts are far from basketball. He is donating one of his kidneys to his 14-year-old son, Steve. Loren tells us the story of the family.

We also have available the story we've been holding from staff writer Jean Moore (jcmoore@VenturaCountyStar.com) on families who hire counselors to help their kids apply to college.

Off the wires today, there are a number of stories out of Baghdad and the Middle East that we're watching as possible Page One offerings.