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PAST ISSUES   -   MARCH, 2007
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Neat Boutique
SITE AREA: Your Home - Interior Looks
Santa Clarita's homeware shops are BRIMMING with style. Your favorite new accessories are only a short jaunt away. Orchid Gift Emporium, La Via Bella, Macc* Designs/The Warehouse and Madalian are all profiled.
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Entertaining at Home
SITE AREA: Your Home - Interior Looks
How long has it been since you lingered over a drink and rich conversation with a close friend? Now multiply that experience by the number of gal pals you've been meaning to catch up with "forever." Enough of the guilt. It's time to take action. Spa parties are all the rage and can be...
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Six Thoughts on Insurance for your Newly-purchased Home
SITE AREA: Your Home - Interior Looks
Most people get insurance because escrow won't close without it. Don't just purchase insurance to close escrow and not thinking about it after that. One of the biggest mistakes people make is insuring their new home for the purchase price. Homeowners' insurance insures the replacement...
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Real Estate Update
SITE AREA: Your Home - Real Estate
For years, the real estate market in the Santa Clarita Valley has been a sprint - sellers rushing to cash in on escalating prices and buyers racing to add their name to the next development's waiting list. But things have changed. Gone are the heydays of multiple bids on newly listed ...
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A Fear of Spiders, Eight-legged and Otherwise
SITE AREA: Family - Family Features
Is it unmanly to admit I fear spiders? Probably. But there it is nonetheless, on the printed page for everyone to see. A risky confession? No doubt. But a risk I'm willing to take for you. Laugh if you want. Call me a sissy. Send me rubber spiders through the mail and make me the butt...
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Who's On First?
SITE AREA: Family - Family Features
Since the early 20th century, psychologist Alfred Adler has promoted the theory that a child's place in the family may determine his/her personality. I was the oldest, with a brother three years younger and a sister five years younger. I remember my brother and I frequently picking on...
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Kid's Review
SITE AREA: Family - Family Features
Recently, I discovered a great team activity. The team mom for my soccer team suggested that we establish a "Secret Sister." After a fun and secretive selection party when each of us chose a name, we were able to surprise our selected teammate at every tournament with a small token. ...
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Fashionscope - March
SITE AREA: Beauty - Fashion
Women have needs. Those can't-live-without items that, for whatever reason, complete us in some respect. Meet the newest additions to your must-possess collection. In times of trouble, the Fish stays true to herself, turns quietly inward and allows answers to reveal themselves as eve...
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Cha-Ching!
SITE AREA: Beauty - Fashion
World-class Designers and Unique Boutique Brands are at Home in the SCV... The aloha spirit is alive and well in the SCV. It may still be winter, but inside Island Appeal it's all about sand, sun and drinks topped with little umbrellas. This is the place to go if you need a bikini in...
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Live Better!
SITE AREA: Health - Focus on your Health
In January, you became addicted to exercise; in February, you continued to find the time for your addiction; in March, you are going to learn to feed your addiction. Most people naturally begin to change their eating habits once they have started to exercise regularly. On the positive...
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LASIK may be Safer than Contacts
SITE AREA: Health - Focus on your Health
A new study by the Oregon Health and Science University Casey Eye Institute has found that laser surgery is a good option for contact lens users. There are approximately 25 million contact lens wearers in the United States and approximately one million people who have laser surgery ev...
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Dee-lish! - Chan Daretta
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - The Dish
Who needs to drive to Los Angeles for great Thai food? SCV residents don't. We have a great Thai restaurant in our own backyard (Copperhill and Seco, to be exact). Last year, the family-owned Chan Dara restaurant, which has been a favorite L.A. spot for Thai-fusion cuisine for over 30...
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Palatable Passport - March
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - What to Order Now
Who said March Madness had to be about basketball? Spring's nearly here, and if these fresh options are any indication, it'll be a season of good eating, no crazy foam fingers required. Your favorite salad is now wrapped up! The King Caesar Wrap is made with premium chicken breast st...
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Movers and Shakers
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
City Manager Ken Pulscamp took the title of Newsmaker of the Year (and not far off, Assistant City Manager Ken Striplin wiped away a tear of joy). Scott Wilk, the Susan Lucci of the Newsmakers, finally went home with a prize, too; he won for Behind the Scenes. And who's that sexy man ...
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Soroptimists Go-Go Back to the Sixties for Auction
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
Break out the bell-bottoms, dust off the love beads and put some flowers in your hair. We're not going to San Francisco, but we are headed for the Soroptimists' "Flashback to the Sixties" fundraising auction. The 32nd installment of the annual event promises to be groovy, says Cynthia...
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Fighting, One Step at a Time
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
When Santa Clarita resident Colleen Shaffer learned in 2002 that her breast cancer had spread, she also learned she'd live six months unless her body responded to treatment. But Shaffer is a fighter. She is a cancer survivor. She will probably be on chemotherapy for the rest of her li...
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Amgen Cycling Race to Stop in Santa Clarita
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
It's a summer sight even those who don't follow sports can't miss. Hundreds of thousands of the world's most rabid cycling fans line the roadways of rural France for a glimpse of cyclists whizzing by at speeds in excess of 60 miles per hour. By the race's end, most of those fans spill...
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Get Out of Town! - Eric Ericsson's
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Get Out of Town
Relaxation is a subjective feeling and there's no set formula for achieving it. Sometimes it comes after three days in a faraway place. Other times it finds you within minutes while still close to home. With three young children, relaxation is hard to come by, especially the variety t...
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Shopping Local Means Big Bucks for a Small Town
SITE AREA: Business
It's a lovely Saturday afternoon and you decide to spend it in the park, flying kites with your children. The park is clean and well kept with plenty of parking spaces and mature trees to provide you some shade. Did you notice on the trip over to the park that the road was well mainta...
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Inside Your Money
SITE AREA: Business
By now, all of the New Year's resolutions that we made regarding working out, eating right or even quitting smoking have played out. We either did or we did not. Statistics say that most of us have not even come close to keeping those pesky resolutions. I propose we change New Year's ...
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March 2007 Business Brief
SITE AREA: Business
Dr. Joel S. Miller, DMD, MAGD, has recently trained in neuromuscular dentistry. Dr. Miller, now a Master of the Academy of General Dentistry, has also received training in neuromuscular dentistry at the Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies. Neuromuscular Dentistry can help ...
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Be Wary of Tax Cons
SITE AREA: Business
Hundreds of thousands of people across the country fall prey to tax scams that rip off their money. Because most people hate the prospect of paying the government their share of taxes, many seek an alternative means to paying taxes or they fall victim to what they think is a good mone...
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Hart Girls Basketball Coach Dave Munroe Set to Retire After 18 Years with Indians
SITE AREA: Sports
Dave Munroe's career in coaching has been marked by two constants. The first is family. The second is winning. When he was a boy, he followed his dad, Phil, the first baseball coach at San Fernando Valley State College (Cal-State Northridge) from game to game. When he turned 21, he fo...
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