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Pardee Homes donates $1,500 to SCV Food Pantry
Jim Bizzelle, vice president for community development for Pardee Homes, hands a check to Nancy Fisher, center, volunteer at Santa Clarita Valley Food Pantry and Amy Bodemer, executive assistant for pantry.
Gift shop celebrates anniversary
In the midst of a weakened economy, gift shops are dropping like flies in the Santa Clarita Valley.
$1,500 raised for Newhall Memorial
Members of the Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital Guild raised $1,500 for hospital lab services Dec. 2.
Luxury cars see drop in sales
When market-analysis firm J.D. Power and Associates released a report on automobile sales Oct. 9, it gave a bleak outlook for the rest of this year and 2009.
Business briefs
Lennar offers new-home financing deal Valencia's Lennar communities are offering special new-home pricing and financing through Universal American Mortgage Company of California between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. today and Sunday. Many buyers can qualify for conventional FHA loan at 3 percent down on a loan buy-down of 3.25 percent for the first year, 4.25 percent second year, and 5.25 percent (5.79 percent APR) fixed for life through UAMC, which is offering other special terms. To ...
Textron celebrates milestone
Some of the guided missiles partially manufactured by HR Textron have gone from the streets of Valencia to the battlefields of Iraq.
Bank of Santa Clarita gets protective
The Bank of Santa Clarita will participate in the FDIC program that provides unlimited deposit insurance coverage on its customers' non-interest-bearing checking accounts through Dec. 31, 2009.
Business briefs
24-Hour Comics Day Brave New World Comics hosts a local artists challenge to create a 24-page comic book within 24 straight hours from noon on Saturday to noon on Sunday at 22722 Lyons Ave #6. The challenge is part of an international celebration of comic book creation where cartoonists around the globe will take on the same challenge. Artists and comics creators of every artistic level will participate. Contact (661-259-4745) or email mail@bravenewworldcomics.com. ...
The gift of sight
Hometown Day is one event in the "Give the Gift of Sight" charitable programs sponsored by Luxottica Retail and the Give the Gift of Sight foundation.
Salisbury speaks at TPC Valencia
Advertising Professionals of North Los Angeles County invites business executives, designers, advertisers and marketing professionals to a special business luncheon featuring legendary branding designer Mike Salisbury as keynote speaker at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 24 at the Tournament Players Club, 26550 Heritage View Lane in Valencia.
A bigger battleground in the TB war
To keep fighting a war against disease, sometimes you need a bigger battleground. Cellestis Inc. recently tripled the size of its Valencia headquarters in its ongoing battle to defeat tuberculosis. "We outgrew the other location," Cellestis employee Scott Weiss said. "Over there, we were busting at the seams." The company hosted the celebration of its new North American distribution headquarters on Constellation Road in the Rye Canyon industrial center. Cellestis is a local subsidiary of ...
Business exposition anticipates 5,000 attendees
More than 100 exhibitors handed out goody bags, networked with each other and greeted potential customers as the 24th annual Home and Business Expo opened its tent flaps Saturday on a windy College of the Canyons parking lot.
Helping out Santa’s Helpers
Signal staffers hold toys for the annual SCV Junior Chamber of Commerce Santa's Helpers program. The Signal is a top sponsor for the event. More than four toy bins in the lobby of The Signal's offices have been filled with toys and games for underprivileged children.
Local dentists donate toothbrushes
Allen and Kelly Smudde are cleaning up Skid Row - one smile at a time. The Valencia dentists donated six boxes of toothbrushes and a box full of toothpaste tubes to a Santa Clarita Valley organization that will distribute them to homeless people on Skid Row today. Christina Findley of Canyon Country and Nancy Burgos of North Hollywood, co-founders of future nonprofit corporation Ffena, traveled to Los Angeles' Skid Row in early November to hand ...
Business briefs
Foreclosure workshop offered The California Foreclosure Institute presents a free two-hour workshop for investors and real estate agents from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at Valencia Public Library. The workshop will focus on how to get started finding and buying foreclosure properties. Reservations are required. Visit www.foreclosureworkshop.net, or call (888) 285-0101. Meeting deadlines heads luncheon The Santa Clarita Valley Bar Association will host a lunch meeting and MCLE program, "Deadlines on Demand," at noon ...
Articles by Section - Local Business
Retailer says buying habits have shifted
First opened in 1972, retailer Bouquet Auto Parts has been a part of the economic changes and trends in Santa Clarita for over 40 years, said its co-owner, Owen Powell.
Office vacancies fall
The economic snapshot report for December 2012 was released by the Santa Clarita Valley Economic Development Corporation – or SCVEDC – on March 21.
U.S. HealthWorks appoints Strickland national director
Scott Strickland has been appointed as National Director of Therapy Services for Valencia-based U.S. HealthWorks.
Purchasing a home can be tricky these days
Editor's Note: This is the last of a two-part series on the local real estate market. Last Sunday's story focused on the homeowner, or seller. Today's story focuses on the buyer.
Men’s Wearhouse founder speaks at VIA B2B
"Compassion and forgiveness are just as important as accountability and hard work," said George Zimmer, founder and executive chairman of the Men's Wearhouse.
