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Master's College Women's Chamber Choir sings April 24
The Master's College Women's Chamber Choir performs a free concert under the direction of Dr. Carolyn Simons at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 24, in the college's Music Recital Hall, 24736 Quigley Canyon Road, Newhall 91321.
Happy Trails Children’s Foundation receives $5,000 donation
APPLE VALLEY, Calif. - The nonprofit Happy Trails Children's Foundation established by Western legends Roy Rogers and Dale Evans to aid neglected and abused children will soon be $5,000 richer, thanks to a donation from Stater Bros. Charities in honor of Happy Trails Executive Director Joel Dortch.
Chamber sets 2009 Expo dates
The 2009 Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce Expo is slated for Friday and Saturday, Oct. 9 and 10, at the Santa Clarita Sports Complex, 20880 Centre Pointe Pkwy., Canyon Country 91351.
COC hosts Children’s Play Day
In honor of the Week of the Young Child, College of the Canyons will hold a sixth annual Play Day on April 25.
Local boarders, pro skaters to drop in on skate park grand opening
The Santa Clarita skate community is buzzing with anticipation as the Grand Opening of the new city skate park quickly approaches.
Santa Clarita youth participate in league basketball championships
The city of Santa Clarita's Youth Basketball Program competed in the league championships at Hart High School on March 14.
Cancer survivors invited to a 'Believe' educational breakfast
Cancer survivors from across the Santa Clarita Valley are invited to attend a "Believe" educational breakfast from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Thursday, April 23, at the Tournament Players Club, 26550 Heritage View Ln., Valencia 91381.
Break the Cycle releases '2009 State-By-State Teen Dating Violence Report Card'
LOS ANGELES - Break the Cycle (www.breakthecycle.org), the nation's leading non-profit teen dating violence prevention organization, today announces the results of their "2009 State-by-State Teen Dating Violence Report Card" that grades each state's laws on their ability to protect victims of teen dating violence seeking protection orders against their abusers.
Kevin Buck: The VLWC and you
It has been just 52 days since President Obama took the oath of office and began implementing the secret Democratic plan to destroy the United States, create a socialist welfare state and use the powers of the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy to silence the Vast Right Wing Conclave once and for all.
Golf champ's wife
I'm glad Trudy Forsman is so proud of her husband's golf win in the recent AT&T golf tournament and applauded The Signal's online coverage of same ("Lasting impression: Forsman wins AT&T Champions Classic," March 16).
Bogus Bush-bashing
At last the Liberals and many Democrats have made me understand the unfettered and relentless bashing of George W. Bush, his administration and anything Republican.
Homeland insecurity
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was recently interviewed about the horrific drug war going on in Mexico and how it is now being trafficked into our country.
Trinity Classical Academy students describe their annual Middle Ages Faire
By Grant Wolf On February 27, 2009, Trinity Classical Academy's fourth-graders hosted their annual Middle Ages Faire. Students prepared speeches about characters from the middle ages and fashioned vivid period costume pieces representative of that time. When asked what he liked most about the faire, fourth-grader Caden Kulp said, "I really liked walking around and talking to people about my character." The fourth-grade class at Trinity intensively studies world history, the focal point being the ...
'Annie Get Your Gun'
Opening Night! I put on my western shirt and jeans, as did most of the other actors. We were about to perform the first of three evening showings of "Annie Get Your Gun," a musical taking place in the 1880's. It tells the story of a Wild West Show run by a man named Buffalo Bill and how a young woman named Annie Oakley joins the show and falls in love with their best sharpshooter, ...
What would you invent?
First place I wish to invent helping hands. My helping hands will help my mom read her book and cook at the same time. My mom likes to read a lot. These helping hands will be very long. My helping hands will help organize my house and my room. The helping hands will play doll house with me. The helping hands will help cook our favorite dinner of pasta and pizza. It will have a ...
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Obama in Chicago exhorts 'ladders of opportunity'
CHICAGO (AP) - Pressing his case in the town that launched his political career, President Barack Obama called Friday for the government to take an active, wide-ranging role in ensuring every American has a "ladder of opportunity" into the middle class.
Weeping Pistorius faces premeditated murder charge
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) - In a courtroom, not an Olympic stadium, there was no click-click-click of Oscar Pistorius' prosthetic limbs. His only sound Friday was loud, uncontrollable sobs as prosecutors charged him with premeditated murder in the shooting death of his model girlfriend.
Marsha McLean: Live from City Hall
One of the comments I often hear from people who visit Santa Clarita for the first time is how beautiful our city looks.
Faith calendar: Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
Friendly Valley church
Daryl Cagle: That First Amendment can be soooooo annoying
I syndicate the cartoons of Rick McKee, the brilliant, conservative cartoonist from The Augusta Chronicle, to newspapers around the world.
Church volunteers in Nicaragua
A team of volunteers from the Valencia United Methodist Church traveled to Nicaragua the first week of March to offer assistance to poor families. The families live in shacks in and around an area known as la chureca, a large trash dump located in Central Nicaragua near the city of Managua.
Tim Myers: Competition is the spice of local life
Our youngest son, a senior at Valencia High School, ain't happy.
Saddened by the process
On Feb. 12, the president delivers his State of the Union address, and he is followed almost immediately by a GOP spokesman who says, "Oh, no, that's not the way it is.
Go get ‘em, deputies
Get the cars that have expired tags 30-180 days late. Get the drivers driving with headlights off when it is getting dark. Get those driving while talking on cell phones.
Today in the SCV: Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
Valentine's heart-y walk
New gardeners have questions
People new to gardening ask the darndest questions: about how seeds work, about growing the perfect tomato, about waging war with insects (many of them beneficial).
How to fit new tile
Q: I need to replace some cracked and chipped tile in the bathroom. Some of it was shaped to fit around the base of the toilet. Is it difficult to shape replacement tiles in the same way? - Sarah S., Fort Worth, Texas
Prep boys hoops: Good memory
Two years ago, West Ranch boys basketball was eliminated from the postseason by eventual CIF division champion Ventura.
