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PAST ISSUES   -   JANUARY, 2006
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Little Orbs Equal Big Taste when it comes to the Pomegranate
SITE AREA: Your Home - Interior Looks
Dear Kitchen Mavericks, Spill it. We know that you have some hip new recipes hidden up your chef-coat sleeves. We do have a hot new food trend to pass on. Our latest passion is the pomegranate. Foods from Persia, Morocco and Turkey are incredibly popular right now.
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The Decorating Divas
SITE AREA: Your Home - Interior Looks
You wouldn't dream of wearing that little black dress without the perfect shoes and pair of earrings, would you? Then why skip hanging window treatments when decorating a room? I recently helped a couple with most beautiful living and dining rooms, except there were no window treatme...
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Local Homeowners in Hasley Hills Go All Out for the Holidays
SITE AREA: Your Home - Inspired by Design
If you like Christmas light displays, make your way over to Castaic's Hasley Hills home tracts. All seven phases of the Hasley Hills community will be participating in a light contest, and many homeowners have taken the challenge in stride. The major cross streets for the community ar...
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Homemakers Grand Opening to Benefit the Michael Hoefflin Foundation for Children's Cancer
SITE AREA: Your Home - Right at Home
On Friday, December 30, Homemakers will celebrate the grand opening of their beautiful new 100,000-square-foot showroom on Ruther Avenue near Center Pointe Parkway. The event will begin at 10 a.m., with a fountain dedication to the Michael Hoefflin Foundation starting around 7:30 p.m.
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As a Manner of Fact
SITE AREA: Family - Family Features
Hello. My name is Judith, and I'm a resolution maker. Like the rest of the resolution addicts out there, I love lists. In fact, the only thing I love more than lists is pointing out the flaws of others. As a holiday gift to myself, I've combined the two. Here, a divine anthology of fa...
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Parents Evaluate Preschool Education in the New Year
SITE AREA: Family - Family Features
"He's got a mind like a sponge." You've heard people say that about young children and research has shown that this is true. Ninety percent of brain growth takes place before most children enter kindergarten. While many of us believed that sending our children to preschool was an opp...
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Kid's Review
SITE AREA: Family - Family Features
I am sure you have all heard of Carousel Ranch but just in case you have not, it is a non-profit organization that teaches disabled children to ride horses. Recently, the program moved from a temporary home in Sand Canyon to a spacious place on Rockinghorse Road (is that a perfect nam...
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Our Heritage Park
SITE AREA: Family - Family Features
Hopefully, by now you have had a chance to visit the Hart Mansion. If you happen to visit on either a Saturday or Sunday afternoon, you may have noticed a flurry of activity and events in the lower portion of the park. This is Heritage Junction, most recognized by the 1900 steamer sta...
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The Family Therapist is In
SITE AREA: Health - Healthy & Happy
Did you think about your spouse's temperament or personality before you married? Did you ask yourself, "Is this the person I want to be with everyday until I die?"
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Get Fit in 2006
SITE AREA: Health - Focus on your Health
Studies have shown that Americans have one thing in common at the beginning of every new year: most of us include some type of fitness goal in our list of resolutions. When you enjoy your fitness routine, you are more likely to stick to it, and that increases your chance of success. F...
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Dee-lish! - Naima
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - The Dish
When entering Naima Persian Restaurant for the first time, diners will notice an immediate air of sophistication. Burgundy curtains are draped across the restaurant's windows, shielding the strip mall scene outside. Inside, sleekness abounds as tables are shrouded in white tablecloths...
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Great Finds - Party for Free
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
During the holidays, there are usually two facts of life that are at odds with each other. Fact 1: The kids are out of school for winter break. Fact 2: Because of holiday shopping, money's tight.
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Movers And Shakers
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
Guests at All Corked Up's fancy-schmancy wine tasting enjoyed more than a good bottle of Bollinger (or Gaja, Pio Cesare or Il Poggione). Besides schmoozing with a former Dodger ballplayer, Hall of Famer Eddie Murray, locals checked out the new goodies from Mercedes Benz of Valencia.
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Follow your Passions in the New Year
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
Want to meet new people with similar interests? Santa Clarita is full of literally hundreds of clubs and nonprofit organizations. Here's some new ones, plus an old favorite, worth looking into. Happy socializing!
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New Year's Resolutions - A Matter of Choice
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
So what is it for you? Start saving, lose weight, quit smoking, exercise more, get organized... We've all said those famous words: "This year, I'm really going to (fill in your own broken resolution here)." If your resolution success has been spotty, you aren't alone. According to a r...
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Local Writer Publishes First Novel
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
A local resident and familiar face at Valencia Library, Jocelyne Badr is ecstatic about the publication of her first book, "Alter Idem." The tome has just been picked up by Levant distributors in Lebanon and is being showcased by one of the area's major bookstores.
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SCV Puts on the Ritz to Ring in the New Year
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
A night of dinner, dancing and bottles of bubbly is what's on tap in Santa Clarita this New Year's Eve. Celebrations range from Valencia to Agua Dulce, and cork-popping prices vary according to how fine the food and how long the evening. Line up a sitter, because it's pretty much an a...
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Total Financial Makeover
SITE AREA: Business
How quickly they grow, these little ones in our life that we love. They give us so much, they fulfill us in ways we never thought possible. They start out so small and as they grow we reevaluate how we feel about life, wondering if things will ever return to "normal." Of course, I'm t...
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January 2006 Business Brief
SITE AREA: Business
Local Photographer Takes First at Print Competition Paige Burghardt of Paige Photography took first place in Portrait Photography at the Santa Clarita Valley Photographers Association's Print Competition with her work, "On the Same Page." Her piece, "Drum Boyz," took second place i...
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