Home » 2010 (page 76)

Yearly Archives: 2010

Homeless Shelter Looking For Building Material Donations

What would happen if a homeless individual walked through the Santa Clarita Shelter’s doors this winter and had to walk right out? The SCVs homeless population has grown and the people behind the Shelter are working on a plan to provide “Beds For All” clients coming to stay for a night from December 1 to March 15. But that can ...

Read More »

Photos: 2010 Santa Clarita Festival of the Arts

Santa Clarita’s annual Festival of the ARts in Old Town Newhall brought together artists of all disciplines over the weekend to perform and produce pieces of visual, musical and dramatic arts. Chalk artists covered two blocks of asphalt with a rainbow of colors and designs in the downtown area while sculptors, singers, acrobats, drummers and other crafters their talents with ...

Read More »

One Valley, One Vision Center Of Tuesday’s Planning Commission Meeting

Tuesday’s Planning Commission meeting will be the first time Santa Clarita residents can voice their opinion on the draft of One Valley, One Vision.   The 8,098-page document details the vision for the Santa Clarita Valley for at least the next 20 years. From land use, to air and water quality, to population growth, to potential building and annexation – ...

Read More »

CHP Continues To Focus On Distracted Drivers

If you think you can continue to ignore the cell phone laws, down that Double-Double and put on your mascara when you’re speeding down the freeway, think again.   After a yearlong campaign against impaired drivers that proved vigilance against distracted driving was a good thing, the California Highway Patrol is now determined to continue lowering the number of incidents ...

Read More »

Recent Summer Actually Coolest In Years

The day Los Angeles experienced its record-breaking 113-degree weather, September 27, temperatures hit an unbearable 111 degrees in Santa Clarita.   According to climatologists at the National Weather Service, that likely sets or breaks the single-day high for the city.   What’s more surprising – even confounding – is that day occurred in the beginning of fall, when we expect ...

Read More »

October 16 Walk To Benefit Habitat For Humanity

Habitat for Humanity’s San Fernando/Santa Clarita Valleys chapter doesn’t stop working when the last hammer falls. With the conviction that low-income housing should be more than a subsidy, they created the landmark Enriched Neighborhood program that works with banks, businesses and universities to give homeowners tools to improve their lives and communities.   On October 16, the San Fernando/Santa Clarita ...

Read More »

Samuel Dixon Family Health Center

(pictured left to right: Ed Bolden, Cheryl Laymon, Sue Scott from Samuel Dixon; Pat Aidem from Providence Holy Cross; Brian Henriksen from Princess Cruises; and host Janice Murray) On Monday October 4th 2010, the Samuel Dixon Family Health Center were the featured organization on the Non-Profit Spotlight show. The featured topic was the Rubber Duckie Regatta, which you can find ...

Read More »

Funding Approved To Eliminate DNA Testing Backlog At County

The Board of Supervisors approved $2.5 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Justice to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department for its “Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program’ announced Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich .   $1.5 million will be used to improve the Department’s DNA Program by reducing forensic DNA backlog, improving the capacity for DNA analysis and ...

Read More »

Mission Valley Bank Receives Cash Infusion And Bank Enterprise Award

President and CEO Tamara Gurney of Mission Valley Bancorp, the parent company of Mission Valley Bank has announced that the bank received $4,836,000 in capital on September 24 via the Community Development Capital Initiative (CDCI) program.   “Having just recently received approval to exchange the bank’s existing TARP funding for the more favorably structured CDCI funds on August 20, we ...

Read More »

COC Women’s Golf Team Wins North South Tournament

The College of the Canyons women’s golf team won the North South Tournament by eight strokes over Sacramento City College at Morro Bay. The two-day tournament included teams from Northern and Southern California. COC shot 625 as a team. Tiara Wells shot the low round with a 73 on Monday for COC. Taylor Gould had the low round for COC ...

Read More »