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Run Against Hunger slated for Sunday
The Santa Clarita Valley Food Pantry will host the 16th Annual Run Against Hunger at 8 a.m. on Sunday at Newhall Park.
The Signal.com's Daybreak: Oct. 22, 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:
Food Pantry gives brushes
In celebration of National Dental Hygiene Month, the Santa Clarita Valley Food Pantry is distributing a new toothbrush to each of its clients courtesy of local donors and dentists including Dr. Tom Schoenbaum, Dr. Alan Barbakow, Dr. Gina Dorfman and Dr. Dell Goodrick.
God bless Godfrey
God bless you, Jo Godfrey ("One woman's battle," Oct. 11), for your courage and tenacity in fighting for health care reform.
Get the health care facts, then decide
It should be obvious to anyone who follows the news that health care reform has generated massive opposition, primarily from the health insurance industry which bankrolls conservative lobbyists and encourages talk show pundits to roll out some of the most outrageous misinformation and propaganda.
Cam Noltemeyer: Polluted water: Only time will tell
Water and soil pollution continues to be a huge issue in the Santa Clarita Valley, as it has been for more than a decade. The problem is not limited to the Whittaker-Bermite site.
Volunteers needed for Festival of Trees
The three-day Festival of Trees, benefiting the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Clarita Valley, will be held Nov. 20-22.
Randall D. Armour: Beware of trust mills when planning your estate
Proper planning of your estate requires consideration of your specific needs and family goals as well as extensive knowledge of current laws. Many improperly prepared estate plans have led to disastrous results that could have easily been avoided if the plan had been prepared by a qualified professional.
An ‘uplifting’ event at TPC
It was an uplifting afternoon in more ways than one when Soroptimist International of Santa Clarita Valley recently hosted the sixth annual "Bras for a Cause" event at the Tournament Players Club in Valencia.
Sport Clips raises cash for Veterans of Foreign Wars
Georgetown, Texas -- Sport Clips stores across the country including the three stores in the Santa Clarita Valley will begin raising money today through Nov. 14 to support the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Operation Uplink, a program that offers free call days and calling cards for deployed and hospitalized American soldiers.
Online social networking rises: Good or bad?
SANTA MONICA (PRNewswire-USNewswire) -- Are social networking Web sites good for our society? ProCon.org, a nonpartisan, nonprofit public charity dedicated to promoting critical thinking, created the new Web site socialnetworking.procon.org/ to explore this core question. Social networking and blogging sites accounted for 17 percent (about one in every six minutes) of all time spent on the Internet in August 2009, nearly three times as much as in 2008. The popularity of ...
What's good in education, Oct. 21, 2009
Season of Diversity Coming to Santa Clarita The Hart District collaborates with the city of Santa Clarita each year to present "A Season of Diversity," a series of events and activities that runs from October through January. This series focuses on celebrating the rich variety of cultures found in the Santa Clarita Valley. Each year, the city brings outstanding speakers and performers to the community, and several of these take place at Hart District venues. On ...
Run Against Hunger set for Sunday, Oct. 25
Runners of all ages and ability levels will take a bite out of hunger Sunday, Oct. 25 in the Santa Clarita Valley Food Pantry's 16th Annual Run Against Hunger.
Board approves permit for Carousel Ranch
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) for Carousel Ranch to provide therapeutic riding programs and equestrian-related activities to developmentally disabled and/or special needs children, according to Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich.
K-12 arts education program rolls out mobile film classrooms
The Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center at College of the Canyons, the Mary Pickford Institute and the Found Penny Foundation are teaming up to bring a mobile, state-of-the-art, digital production studio to three local elementary schools during the next six weeks.
Articles By Author - Signal Staff
Oscar guy MacFarlane aims to perk up stodgy awards
LOS ANGELES (AP) - You think the Academy Awards are boring? Try the nominations. They only last a few minutes, but it's generally a sleepy academy suit and a sleepy starlet droning a list of names at 5:30 in the morning.
Georgia plane aborted landing, hit utility pole
THOMSON, Ga. (AP) - A small private jet carrying a surgeon and members of his clinic staff aborted its landing at a Georgia airport before it hit a 60-foot utility pole and crashed in a flaming wreck, killing five people onboard and injuring two, federal authorities said Thursday.
Pistorius granted bail pending murder trial
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) - In an agonizingly slow announcement, a magistrate allowed Oscar Pistorius to go free on bail Friday, nine days after the Paralympian was arrested in the Valentine's Day killing of his girlfriend.
Police: Hotel altercation sparked Vegas shooting
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Bullets were flying from a black Range Rover at a gray Maserati as the vehicles raced toward a red light on the Las Vegas Strip.
4 stabbed outside downtown LA nightspot
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Four young adults have been stabbed after a feud spilled out of a downtown Los Angeles nightspot.
More tests needed in LA hotel water tank death
LOS ANGELES (AP) - More testing must be done to determine the cause of death of a 21-year-old Canadian tourist whose body was found wedged in a water tank atop a downtown Los Angeles hotel, authorities said Thursday.
Letters: A socialist by any other name is... a socialist
Leftists of late have become very defensive about being called socialist in their ideology, as typified by Kevin Buck's column (Feb. 19, "Straw men live in glass houses").
Alice Khosravy: California is at bottom for business
Just a few short days ago the lanterns fell, bringing an end to Chinese New Year season for 2013.
