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Salmon Recalled Due To Listeria Contamination

Vita Food Products, Inc. of Chicago, Illinois is notifying the public that 8,088 individual retail packages of 4 oz. Vita Classic Premium Sliced Smoked Atlantic Nova Salmon are being voluntarily recalled due to the potential for contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with ...

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Senator Boxer Visits Santa Clarita With Cemex News

Two women from Santa Clarita wore homemade buttons for U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer to see: Yes S. 759 Boxer in fact did see the buttons and realized too late they could have helped her remember the name of the Cemex bill when it didn’t come instantly to mind. “Oh, you’re wearing that duh, duh,” Boxer said, laughing. More importantly, Boxer ...

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Henry Mayo To Offer Free Flu Shots At Chamber Expo

It’s that time of year when you need to roll up your sleeve and take a shot in the arm. In an effort to keep our community healthy, Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital is offering free flu shots to adults 50 years of age and older or adults in a high risk category, while supplies last. The free flu shot ...

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August 29, 2011 Dodgers Over Padres 4-1

Monday, the Dodgers welcomed the San Diego Padres to Dodgers Stadium for game one of a three game series. The Dodgers scored runs in the first, third and fourth innings with San Diego scoring one run in the the forth. The Dodgers went on to defeat the Padres 4 to 1. Dodgers Pitcher Clayton Kershaw won his ninth straight game ...

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Drowning Doesn’t Discriminate Taught At Pool Safety Expo

There were kiddie pools and dancing ducks and singers and hot dogs and guys with big red trucks, but the most attraction-grabbing presentation during Saturday’s Pool Safety Expo at Fire Station 126 was a presentation from an officer of the California Highway Patrol. And it wasn’t about speeding or car seats or traffic control. CHP Officer Charmaine Fajardo stood in ...

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Solar Canopy Sheds Light On Future Savings

The Santa Clarita City Council welcomed U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer to the dedication of a Solar Canopy at the Transit Maintenance Facility. Mayor Marsha McLean called this event an important milestone and thanked Boxer for visiting even though she has 36 million other constituents. Boxer corrected McLean saying she actually has 38 million constituents, which perhaps makes the honor even ...

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Weekend Activities Are A Bomb In Valencia, Newhall

Photo by Elliot Cohen/SCVNEWS.COM Two more dry ice bombs exploded in the neighborhood behind Granary Square in Valencia Sunday night, according to sheriff’s officials, bringing the weekend total for “bomb” discoveries to four. Sgt. Richard Nagler said that deputies found three of the primitive devices in different Arbor Park driveways shortly after 9 p.m. Two of them blew up and ...

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