Legacy hosts open house

Legacy Christian Academy will host a Junior High Open House this from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at 27680 Dickason Dr. in Valencia.

COC awaits accreditation

College of the Canyons officials expect the accreditation status for the community college to be ready within the next couple of weeks.

Newhall library hosts musical journey

Newhall Library invites all families with school-age children to attend "We Shall Overcome," - a free program presenting a musical journey through African-American history - from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Feb. 2 at Newhall Library, 22704 West 9th Street.

Phil Rizzo: Take a role in philanthropy

If ever there was a time for all of us to participate in philanthropy, this is it. What better way to support President Obama's call for individual sacrifice, personal responsibility and acknowledgement of the pain others may be suffering? There's a lot of need out there. You do not have to be rich to give. The best approach is to employ your intuition. What is it that moves you, that hits your heart? My wife ...

Canyon keeps hold of league

With five minutes remaining in the first half of Tuesday night's boys soccer game between Valencia and Canyon, both offenses lit up the scoreboard.

Year of the Ox

Clarifying the Proposition 8 debate

I'm writing this in the hope that it will clarify both sides of the Prop 8. debate. Those who believe in the God of the Bible don't hate gays. They are our brothers and sisters whom we love.

Response to Dan Walters

Dan Walters' article "California is incapacitated" (Jan. 17) is right on. Yes, we need a constitutional convention in California. I was closely involved in the effort to create a Constitutional Revision Commission in 1993, but saw the Wilson administration's bipartisan commission's work shot down by politicians who lack vision and feared for their own hides. Our state constitution, modeled on that of Iowa in 1879, has been amended more than 500 times and is a ...

New World Dance Team spins victory

The New World Dance Team competed in the American Street Dance Championships at the Los Angeles convention center Saturday and Sunday.

RNs to hold candlelight vigil

Registered nurses who are members of the California Nurses Association and National Nurse Organizing Committee will hold a candlelight vigil from 6:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. tonight on the sidewalk in front of Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital.

Your Community: Upcoming Events

Hot Wheels exhibit in Santa Paula The California Oil Museum will be showing "Hot Wheels: 40 years of Playing and Collecting" through Feb. 17. Exhibit available for viewing Wednesday-Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission: $4/adults, $3/seniors, $1/youth and free for members. 1001 E. Main St., Santa Paula. Info: (805) 933-0076. Farmer's Market at COC parking lot The Santa Clarita Farmer's Market is held every Sunday from 8:30 a.m. to noon at the College ...

Kenneth W. Keller: Creating your business action plan

There is tremendous uncertainty among business owners these days. The confidence of many is shattered and for many others, it is wavering, on the verge of being broken.

Students link to bigger chain of change

"I never really thought about changing anything about myself until the Associated Student Body put on this activity," said Bowman High School student Troy Keith. "This made me think about changing something,"

A seat to history for local teen

While I was in D.C. for six days, I experienced enough to last a lifetime. Between the bus rides and waiting for events to start, my team made it the trip it was.

The Signal.com's Daybreak: Jan. 28, 2009

Hello, Santa Clarita Valley! Welcome to The-Signal.com's Daybreak, your point of entry for the day, and a quick journey through the past, present and future. Let the adventure begin:

Kids' suspensions renew debate over zero tolerance

Waiting in line for the bus, a Pennsylvania kindergartener tells her pals she's going to shoot them with a Hello Kitty toy that makes soap bubbles. In Maryland, a 6-year-old boy pretends his fingers are a gun during a playground game of cops and robbers. In Massachusetts, a 5-year-old boy attending an after-school program makes a gun out of Legos and points it at other students while "simulating the sound of gunfire," as one school official put it.

Pistorius: Thought girlfriend was a robber

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) - Oscar Pistorius told a packed courtroom Tuesday that he shot his girlfriend to death by mistake, thinking she was a robber. The prosecutor called it premeditated murder.

'Argo,' 'Zero Dark Thirty' win at Writers Guild

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The CIA thrillers "Argo" and "Zero Dark Thirty" have won top screenplay honors from the Writers Guild of America.

Today in the SCV: Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013

Today is Tuesday, Feb. 19, the 50th day of 2013. There are 315 days left in the year.

Marriage and the meaning of the word

"Marriage" is shorthand for a specific legal arrangement between a man and a woman, just as "corporation" or "limited partnership" is a specific legal arrangement between shareholders, business partners, etc.

Kevin Buck: Straw men live in glass houses

Webster's dictionary has several different definitions for the word socialism. The one conservative fear and loathe the most is:

Tom Purcell: A nail in the coffin of Americans' rights

oy, do I feel sorry for smokers these days.

Wrong about The Signal

I was annoyed and saddened by a comment demeaning the Signal: "The Signal is biased, ignorant and often inept at reporting news."

HOA still recovering months after paint crime

Vandals who hopped a North Valencia HOA pool fence last summer and dumped seven gallons of paint into the pool and hot tub, causing more than $300,000 damage, are still at large.

Economic conference returns to Santa Clarita

The third annual Santa Clarita Economic and Real Estate Outlook conference is taking place Thursday, Feb. 21 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Hyatt Regency Valencia.