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Two Santa Clarita Valley licensed home childcare providers/preschool teachers are using their earned award money for the good of SCV children.
Using the $1000 grant earned through the Betty Brady teacher award from the Southern California Kindergarten Conference earlier this year, Kathleen Shea and Mary Gregory developed a toy lending library for preschoolers and day care providers in the non-profit Family Day Care Association of the SCV.

Mark your calendars for every Thursday afternoon for our new hours of 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., beginning April 5 when the Old Town Newhall Farmer’s Market reopens for Spring.  The Farmer’s Market is located in a parking lot at the corner of San Fernando Road and 6th Street right next door to the Rodger Dunn Golf Shop. 

    Colleges always look for great athletes and no community college can claim to properly help transfer students to four-year institutions without offering an outstanding athletic department. 

         The Saugus High School Varsity Boys Soccer team did more than just reach the semi-finals this year, though that would have been good enough considering the stiff competition in the league

    Did you know that 1 in 3 Americans will get arthritis?  It’s true.    Did you know that losing as little as 11 pounds can cut your risk of osteoarthritis of the knees by 50 percent

On March 24, the local AAUW branch held its annual math/science conference.  It was a huge success.  It was fully subscribed two weeks before the conference date.  It offered twenty hands-on workshops presented by professional women in various fields of math, science and technology to seventh and eighth grade students.

     Well, our first annual Bowl-a-thon is completed and what a success it was.  The turnout from the community was just overwhelming and the amount of money raised for the first time was just awesome.  Don’t have all the figurers yet but somewhere in the neighbor of $14,000 will be turned over to Heads Up Ranch. 

     The greens are being carefully manicured at Robinson Ranch Golf Course in Sand Canyon for the 2nd annual golf tournament on May 21st.  The Zonta Club of Santa Clarita Valley has a diverse range of fun planned for the event where all proceeds will benefit various community projects in the Valley including the Healthy Kids Club and Healthy Woman’s Day.

“I tried to be a firefighter.  It’s a tough profession, very demanding and difficult and I have a lot of respect for them,” says Wayne Smith, a forester with the City of Santa Clarita.

Public service has always been his calling and now after retiring from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department as the Chief, after 32 years of service to the division, Bob Spierer wants to ensure the future of the Santa Clarita Valley stays sterling.  The Newhall resident was the city’s first Chief of Police.

The old adage, “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is,” holds true, according to Santa Clarita Sergeant James Anderson, a 26-year Sheriff’s department veteran, who supervises a team of burglary and fraud investigators, including two who are exclusively devoted to fraud investigation.  He says scam artists will offer you the world and give you nothing.

As public awareness of child trafficking increases, many Americans are considering exactly what can be done to fight against this atrocious form of modern day slavery.

     You may well know the comforting benefits and love of owning a pet.  For the hundreds of students over the years who’ve grown up with docile horses at the Heads Up Ranch, they know that feeling and so much more.    

Work is full-steam ahead for 1-5 interchange improvements near Magic Mountain Parkway thanks to the approval by Metro of five million dollars of additional funding to keep up with rising construction costs.