Community

This year’s Light The Night walk to benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society will be on Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 5:00 p.m. at Bridgeport Park in Santa Clarita.  Volunteers, patients, survivors, families, friends and local businesses will join together for an evening of hope, the hope to find a cure for blood cancers.  Light The Night is a nationwide walk supported by walk teams and individual walkers.  Walk teams are made up of families, co-workers, schools and friends.  The biggest walk team in 2006 was a team made by students that raised over $83,000.

On September 29 and 30, 2007, the Santa Clarita Street Art Festival, sponsored by Lockheed Federal Credit Union, will highlight a spectrum of artistic talent in Old Town Newhall.  This exciting two-day festival will be located along San Fernando Road between Lyons Avenue and 5th Street.  The Street Art Festival is a free outdoor event, open to the public and features live entertainment: international dance performances, live music, fine arts and crafts, interactive activities and the fine art of street painting.

TAKE A LOOK AT WHATS ON CENTRE POINTE!

Centre Pointe Business Park is the eighth existing master-planned business sector in Santa Clarita. It boasts many new companies and employs many Santa Clarita residents. This fairly new business park  is made up of approximately 242,000 square feet and is approximately 240 acres and is still growing. When completed, Centre Pointe is expected to contain more than 4.5 million square feet, 180 companies and 7,000 employees. Centre Pointe is conveniently located at Golden Valley and Soledad Canyon Roads – right in the heart of Canyon Country.  When finished, the cross-valley connector will provide easy access for people visiting Centre Pointe and those working there. Currently, the Golden Valley portion of the cross-valley connector road is open from Highway 14 past Sierra Highway and on to the new Golden Valley bridge connecting to Soledad Canyon Road. The cross-valley connector is believed to be completed by 2008. 

The Betty Ferguson Foundation (BFF) established their Education Advancement Forum with College of the Canyons (COC) in 2005.  Through this forum, they donate some of the foundation’s funds, gained through their two annual fund-raising events, to help students of all ages pursue their educational goals.  To date, they have already given $30,000 towards their $100,000 endowment.

The City of Santa Clarita was pleased with the attendance at the grand opening for the Old Town Newhall Re-stripe Project on Wednesday, July 11 at San Fernando Road and Lyons Avenue in the heart of Old Town Newhall.

The City of Santa Clarita and Southern California Edison have teamed up to keep Canyon Country looking modern and fresh by removing the old telephone poles on Soledad Canyon Road.

The Hart School District is preparing to welcome close to 23,000 students back to school on August 20, the largest and most diverse student body ever.  West Ranch High School will add its first senior class this year, and both Hart and Valencia high schools will be slightly smaller due to a decrease in enrollment.

Close to $5,000 was raised during the recent garden tour in the Santa Clarita Valley to help support families of fallen and wounded soldiers. 

This month David and Linda Ferry wrote to us about the memorable and enriching experience that their son, Jack, experienced in the classroom of Mrs. Yessayan, a first-grade teacher at Sulpher Springs School district.  Following is their heartfelt letter about a teacher they honor and respect:

If children are the future, then the children of the Youth in Government summer program are the future of Santa Clarita.  On Tuesday, July 10, a celebration luncheon hosted by the City of Santa Clarita and Mayor Marsha McLean marked the culmination of the Youth in Government Summer Internship Program.  The luncheon celebrated the 14 high school students who participated in this program designed to teach young people about local government structures, the tools of leadership and the process of public policy.

Mothers have a day.  Fathers have a day.  Even groundhogs have a day.  Shouldn’t kids have their own day too?  Well, now they do.