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PAST ISSUES   -   JUNE, 2007
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Inside SCV Magazine's Kid's Room Makeover Team
SITE AREA: Your Home - Inside SCV Homes
How do you turn a 9-foot by 11-foot bedroom into a space as limitless as the great outdoors? For a transformation this grand, you have to be inspired. "Here's a great kid who has been happy with every simple thing he's been given in life. To think about the joy he would experience wit...
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The Temperature is Rising, but will Home Prices?
SITE AREA: Your Home - Inspired by Design
It's the question everyone keeps asking: What's going to happen with the local real estate market? Some have raised the specter of a housing crash. But the real estate bubble (if there is such a thing) has not popped - at least not yet. Home prices in Santa Clarita, while down from th...
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Hot Properties in Santa Clarita
SITE AREA: Your Home - Real Estate
Over 3,700 square feet of quality upgrades: travertine and tile flooring, plantation shutters, double door entry, tech center, kitchen with granite counters; 5 bedrooms and 3 baths upstairs, 1 full bed/bath down! Huge master suite with two walk-ins and incredible bathroom! Views! For ...
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Make the Most of your Budget
SITE AREA: Your Home - Real Estate
If, by chance, your IRS return wasn't big enough to afford a new tile, let alone many of them held together by grout, you aren't alone. But when the budget gets tight, the tight get creative. Changing the look of your home for the better is just a few bucks (relatively) away, says San...
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Fun Summer Solutions for Kids Activities, Childcare and More
SITE AREA: Family - Education & Enrichment
Summertime will bring a handful of near-absolutes to the Santa Clarita Valley. Ants will invade kitchens. Lawns will turn brown. Electricity bills will break hearts. One of the tradeoffs is that the valley's children will be home from school. For parents, that means no math homework t...
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Kids' Birthday Parties
SITE AREA: Family - Family Features
You might not remember what you ate for breakfast yesterday, but chances are that you recall at least one or two special birthday parties from your childhood. Help your kids make the same great memories by hosting their next birthday party at home. It's easier than you think; read on ...
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Like Father, Like Son
SITE AREA: Family - Family Features
Frank Garcia was an Antelope Valley boy. His dad, a sergeant in the Army National Guard, often warned his son to stay out of trouble and get a good job with a good retirement plan and benefits. It was something Frank always remembered about his hardworking dad, but it was an uncle, a ...
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My Dad was a Comic Book Hero
SITE AREA: Family - Family Features
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was about 10. I lost my faith in the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy around the same time. But I never stopped believing in Superman. How could I? He lived in my house. The Superman under my roof didn't wear a red cape and boots. On most days...
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Love Quiz: Is your Relationship a Duet or a Duel?
SITE AREA: Beauty - Weddings & Events
This article is a bit different than most as it's a fill in the blank opportunity for you to do a service check on the relationship you have with your spouse or partner. I encourage you to set up some special alone time with your significant other; fill in your answers, then share you...
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Fashionscope - June
SITE AREA: Beauty - Fashion
Remember the excitement of a new pack of crayons? All those colors just waiting to be used in your personal masterpiece. Summer is your canvas. Don't worry about staying within the lines. Meet your palate, all grown up. The Twins have long been the sign of communication. Pay tribute ...
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Summer in the City
SITE AREA: Beauty - Fashion
"Platinum blonde is really big right now," says Mary Rakestraw, who attributes the trend to pop icons like Gwen Stefani and Christina Aguilera. Rakestraw recommends the look to women who already have light hair. "It can be a lot of maintenance, and you'll need a great repair treatment...
12.
Ann on Aging
SITE AREA: Health - Seniors
You've got competition! Soccer Grandmas and Grandpas are lining the sidelines at every game and their numbers are growing. And if you think parents of soccer kids are obnoxious, overbearing and over exuberant, you ain't seen nothin' unless you've seen Soccer Grams. I speak from person...
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Beauty Inside & Out
SITE AREA: Health - Healthy & Happy
Picture this: Beautiful, sexy, vibrant legs. The "knockout" kind of legs that "sing" to onlookers. I'm talking million-dollar pins, like the ones Betty Grable had - gorgeous, silky gams that made soldiers dream of their sweethearts back home and women of all ages rush out to buy stile...
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Dee-lish! - Vines Restaurant & Bar
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - The Dish
Looking for a sophisticated restaurant with a fabulous menu and wine list but want to stay in the Santa Clarita Valley? Then look no further than Vines Restaurant & Bar at the Hyatt Valencia. Executive Chef Rolf Rothen has dreamed up a new, seasonal menu that is as spectacular as the ...
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Palatable Passport - June
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - What to Order Now
Summer is about EXTREMES. Take your taste buds on an intense tour of the town. Your destinations await! The savory Coriander Crusted Filet topped with a mushroom demi-glace is perfectly complemented by roasted veggies. Have a spectacular dinner overlooking the Robinson Ranch Golf Cou...
16.
Movers and Shakers
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
The sob-fest that was the Man & Woman of the Year Award Dinner disclosed two newly-crowned and shiny-license-plate-holdered volunteer extraordinaires: Inside SCV Magazine Publisher Jeanna Crawford and longtime king among men Greg Nutter. Crawford, who credited her rise to the do-goode...
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Grease is the Word for 2007 Boys & Girls Club Auction
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
Hillary Clinton said "it takes a village" to raise a child. She had a point. It's not 1955 anymore. Kids' after-school activities don't usually include a stay-at-home mom in an apron and pearls pulling fresh cookies out of the oven. If a child is lucky enough to have two involved pare...
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Beautiful Memories
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
There is something about a beautiful, well-kept garden that brings peace and serenity. Christi Larsen is one of those people who digs in the dirt and finds comfort. More than two years ago, she lost her son Cole while he was serving in Iraq. The pain doesn't go away and the memories o...
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Great Finds - Local Teens Invited to Perform at Third Friday Concerts
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
In a valley where sports, shopping and small businesses prevail, there is a monthly event in our local community that is causing quite the buzz. Third Friday concerts have surprised the residents of Santa Clarita with their success, but have been a long-awaited solution for the increa...
20.
Get Out of Town! - Kidspace Children's Museum
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Get Out of Town
If your kids ever ask if they can crawl through an ant hole, get behind the wheel of a Toyota Land Cruiser or see eye to eye with a scorpion, don't panic. These are perfectly safe and completely normal activities. They're quite convenient, too. Visiting Kidspace Children's Museum in P...
21.
June Business Brief
SITE AREA: Business
Impressions Jewelry and More hosted a fundraiser on April 26 for MAC's Project, a nonprofit organization created to benefit children battling cancer while also keeping our planet healthy through recycling. Named after Mackenzie Maier who won her battle with cancer in 2006, "MAC's" is ...
22.
11 Questions for Rick Gould
SITE AREA: Business
With 17 city parks spread over more than 250 acres, an active arts community and a wide variety of community events, the Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department is one of the busiest (and we've heard, the most fun) at city hall. Rick Gould is the director and he oversees e...
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Canyon Track Star Ready for the Fast Lane
SITE AREA: Sports
Canyon sprinter/hurdler Trevor Habberstad doesn't have to think very long to remember his worst day on the track. It took place at the Foothill league finals two years ago, when he was just a sophomore. Habberstad, already the surprise league champion in the 100 high hurdles, was comi...
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