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PAST ISSUES   -   SEPTEMBER, 2006
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Inside SCV Magazine Room Makeover Preview
SITE AREA: Your Home - Inside SCV Homes
What a struggle! After reviewing over 180 amazing entries, each with a unique story and heart-felt requests to makeover bathrooms, bedrooms, kitchens and even closets, we've selected a local Saugus family in desperate need of a new family room as the winners of our annual Room Makeove...
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Island Dreams come True with Couple's Custom Westridge Home
SITE AREA: Your Home - Inside SCV Homes
What do you get when you marry a self-described home-improvement magazine junkie to a general/electrical contractor? In the case of Jeri and Ray Latka, the result is both a romantic and practical match made in heaven. After 20 years of dreaming and saving, the pair came together to cr...
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Entertaining the Question
SITE AREA: Your Home - Interior Looks
A Night at the Kasbah, Las Vegas Baby, Pretty In Pink, Brazilian Carnival, Running of the Bulls, Hot Hacienda, The French Quarter in New Orleans, and most recently, Cabana #50. These are some of the fun themes used when catering special events, and yes, your end-of-summer parties qual...
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Are you Ready for Back to School?
SITE AREA: Family - Education & Enrichment
Nine elementary school sites, as well as a variety of other SCV locations makes Sunshine Childcare & Learning Centers one of the most convenient options to local parents, but that's not the only reason families love Sunshine. The fun counselors, combined with a chance to hang out with...
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License to Ride
SITE AREA: Family - Family Features
Ahhh, the open road: The wind in your hair and your favorite tunes blasting from the stereo. There's nothing like the feeling of being behind the wheel of a car. It's a teenage dream. It signifies freedom and a chance to cut loose from mom and dad. Sophomore year? Forget the Algebra I...
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Kid's Review
SITE AREA: Family - Family Features
Ever picture yourself on stage performing in front of a live audience? With ESCAPE Theatre, you can turn this fantasy into a reality. ESCAPE stands for Experience Santa Clarita's Actor's Performing Ensemble. The goal of ESCAPE is to "educate children and young adults in the wonderful ...
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Fashion Horoscope - Virgo
SITE AREA: Beauty - Fashion
Virgo's charm and dignity pairs well with classic couture looks, although this smart and savvy sign knows to shop only for pricey pieces that have staying power. Mr. Prim and Proper shouldn't mind dropping a pretty penny for Theory's midnight-shaded blazer; the cut is as classic as a ...
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Ann on Aging
SITE AREA: Health - Seniors
I recently attended my 40th high school reunion. Yes, that's 4-0, as in four decades since . About 45 of the 102 in our graduating class showed up and what an incredible time we had! I grew up in a small college town in northern New York - that's way northern, 30 miles from the St. La...
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The Family Therapist is In
SITE AREA: Health - Healthy & Happy
When I was growing up, nobody in my neighborhood had ever heard of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder(ADHD). There was the occasional kid who couldn't seem to sit still but their parents labeled them as "busy" and they were sent to play outside to work off the excess energy. Tod...
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Live Better!
SITE AREA: Health - Focus on your Health
There is no recipe for success when it comes to back pain. That's the bad news. But the good news is that with some experimentation and a serious look at individuality, your back can heal. My most frustrating moment as a dancer came when two discs decided to herniate. My fellow dancer...
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Dee-lish! - The Roast House
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - The Dish
Looking for a great seafood restaurant? Look no further than your own backyard. Mike Beurer runs the family-owned Roast House on Bouquet Canyon. Recently he rolled out an extensive new seafood menu relying on the culinary expertise of Florida transplant (and brother-in-law) Chef Erik ...
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Wine Pairings to Try Tonight
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
If you consider wine and food pairing a task reserved for the rich, famous or stuffy, or worse, a skill only worth developing when an upcoming party has you panicked, you're going about this whole wine thing all wrong. Wine is a beverage to be associated with festivity, pleasure and s...
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Rev your Engines at Oldies and Goodies Classic Car Show
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
Feel free to look under the hoods, be dazzled by the chrome, or talk to the owners, but don't even think of kicking any tires at the 11th Annual Oldies and Goodies Classic Car, Truck and Motorcycle Show scheduled for September 9 at Saugus Speedway. Some 500 car owners from all over th...
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Movers & Shakers
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
SCV tummies have been loudly protesting the lack of gourmet burritos since Chipotle made their big entrance into the Santa Clarita scene at Taste of the Town back in May, then toyed with our emotions and didn't open for business until their benefit for Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hosp...
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Michael Hoefflin Foundation for Children's Cancer Hosts Evening Under the Stars
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
Most of us cannot imagine having our child diagnosed with cancer, yet for over 70 families in Santa Clarita, childhood cancer is a daily reality. For these families, and over 80 others in the surrounding valleys, The Michael Hoefflin Foundation has become a source of comfort and hope....
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Soroptimist's Bras and Bags for a Cause
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
Every 12 minutes someone dies from breast cancer. There is no better way to kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month than to support the third annual Bras for a Cause event sponsored by Soroptimist International of SCV. On Sunday, October 1, join in bringing awareness and raising funds ...
17.
Carousel Ranch Miracles
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
With all the admiration of superheroes lately, Santa Clarita has a hero of its own which has been marveling crowds for years. It leaps over the word "impossible" with a single bound, creating a new brand of superhero whose identity is no secret. It's Carousel Ranch, a therapeutic hors...
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Great Finds - Boys & Girls Club Day for Kids Provides Free Fun for Local Families
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
Mothers, fathers, grandparents - heck- even groundhogs and flags have a day on the calendar dedicated to them. Kids, however, currently don't have a day reserved in their honor. Now before you get ahead of me and sigh to yourself, "Everyday is kids' day," hear me out.
19.
Around Town
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
David Garrard, a quarterback with the Jacksonville Jaguars, knows what it's like to suffer from a debilitating disease: he has battled Crohn's Disease since 2004. However, that didn't stop the football great from playing ball or hanging out with some new friends at The Painted Turtle ...
20.
Get Out of Town! - Spend an Hour as a Hollywood Aviator
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Get Out of Town
As far back as I can remember I've been excited about airplanes and flying. My dad and I had a Saturday morning ritual when I was a kid. Pancakes at Dupar's, followed by an hour or two hanging on the fence at Van Nuys Airport watching planes of every size and shape come and go. While ...
21.
Inside SCV History
SITE AREA: Business
While for years Newhall Ranch had been a vast expanse of nothingness save the occasional head of cattle or the newly drilled oil derrick, by the 1950s, tracts of homes began sprouting throughout the valley. Town centers in Newhall and Saugus were already established along the rail lin...
22.
Santa Clarita, by Any Other Name, would Still Smell as Sweet
SITE AREA: Business
I recently experienced a pair of SCV moments I now believe must be inherent to anyone who lives more than few years in the Santa Clarita Valley. The first occurred while I was at the mall with my wife and two young daughters. By my rights, it should have been the kind of satisfying mo...
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September 2006 Business Brief
SITE AREA: Business
Advantage Tile Stone Design celebrated their grand opening on July 25. The business is located on the corner of Newhall Ranch Road and Copperhill Drive/Rye Canyon. Chamber of Commerce representatives joined the Gragg family for the festivities. Aimee, the family's youngest daughter, i...
24.
Total Financial Makeover
SITE AREA: Business
Attention all police officers, firefighters and teachers: How would you like to live on 50 percent of what you live on now? While the state of your current pension plans appear to have improved, it was only a few years ago there was talk of fixing them through targeted reforms or repl...
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When it comes to Local High School Football, 2006 will be the Year of the Running Back
SITE AREA: Sports
How many seasons does it take to change the complexion of a high school football league? How many athletes? As far as Santa Clarita Valley's all-powerful Foothill League goes, the answer to those questions may be, respectably, one and two. One season to turn the pass-heavy, quarterbac...
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