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The white ribbons worn by hundreds of Santa Clarita Valley High School Graduates last month are most likely nothing but a memory, but their meaning will hopefully live on in the minds of the youth who wore them.  Hundreds of white ribbons were distributed before graduation services, as part of a drive initiated by Frontier Toyota and Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital and in cooperation with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s department. 

For an entertaining night under the stars that will also benefit the Single Mothers Outreach of Santa Clarita program, take in one or all of the 2007 Hot Summer Nights concerts.  The series of free concerts hosted by the Westfield Valencia Town Center will liven up the Town Square outside the mall every Tuesday night this summer beginning July 17 and running through August 7.  Concerts will run from 7 to 9 p.m.

With 117 years of combined teaching experience, Saugus High School (SHS) will certainly feel a difference after four extraordinary teachers who recently retired from their professions don’t return next year.

For the past three month, The Magazine of Santa Clarita has featured photos and descriptions of children wanting and needing a loving home.  The response to the articles has been positive with several families beginning the adoption training course. 

“100 Million Miracles” was the name of the song they sang and the miracle they pulled off was winning the prestigious first place title in Fame, an invitational competition held in New York City.

Always a roaring good time, a visit to the Santa Barbara Zoo just got better.  Three new public shows, performed in rotation, explore animals, conservation and the world around us.  Join in the fun daily at the Rolling Hill Stage, be it coming face-to-face with a monitor lizard, enjoying the antics of “Zooperman” or discovering the animals in their own backyard.  

An unnamed woman joins a circle of other victims of domestic violence.  She has four children and has been married to her batterer for 11 years.   She has been punched in the face, spit on, dragged across a room by her hair.  Why?  Because she didn’t cook the rice correctly or because she didn’t make the bed the proper way, in the eyes of her abuser.  

A week of nights filled with magic for all ages was not only entertaining, but carried a significant message as well.  Under the circus big top in Canyon Country in late May, talented performers from the Circus Vargas troupe dedicated their opening night performance to all the brave men and women in the U.S. military who give their lives to serve and protect this great country.

The girls in Girl Scout Troop 172 led by Troop leader, Debbilyn Day, are learning about doing good deeds as they make memory books for Los Angeles county foster children.  The girl scouts are currently working on their, “Caring for Others,” patches and when they heard of the plight of those children less fortunate than they, they voted unanimously to do their part in making other children’s lives a bit brighter.

The funds for Special Olympics are a little richer and the hearts of some Hart High School Freshmen Softball players have become a little bigger after they participated in a recent coach-inspired fundraiser. 

An interim LA County fire station is up and running with it’s state-of-the-art temporary trailer on Copper Hill Drive thanks to the co-op efforts of a Newhall Land and County government partnership.