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PAST ISSUES   -   DECEMBER, 2007
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Holiday Homecoming in Westridge
SITE AREA: Your Home - Inside SCV Homes
When it comes to the holidays, folks can go one of two ways. The first, and seemingly most common choice, is to entrench oneself in the material reality of the moment. What to buy? What to wear? Who to be seen with? What to do? All are valid questions, true, but when not accompanied b...
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Say it with Flowers
SITE AREA: Your Home - Interior Looks
When it comes to the holidays, decorating the house is more than Christmas trees, wreaths and Chanukah bushes. Flowers add beauty, fragrance and a touch of elegance. Here is what some of the experts say. Claire's Flowers: "You have to think 'What's the occasion?' Tell me about the sty...
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Entertaining at Home
SITE AREA: Your Home - Interior Looks
Whether you host an open house, or just earn title of "best guest," one thing holds true: The holidays are nearly here! Get a head start with these great ideas compiled from Santa Clarita's finest caterers and party planners.
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Seven Steps to Fabulous
SITE AREA: Your Home - Interior Looks
1. Consider Artificial You can purchase a live tree every year at your local discount store, but I find that the pre-cut option is usually dead and droopy by Christmas Eve, when most of us host get-togethers with friends and family. Specialty decor stores sell many varieties of pre-l...
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It's the Holiday Season
SITE AREA: Your Home - Interior Looks
There are some who start gearing up for the holiday season in July. Of course, that number is pretty low. So if you are like most people, the holidays have snuck up on you and you are getting concerned, running out of ideas, and just a little stressed. This is the time of year to be ...
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The Garden Gives Back
SITE AREA: Your Home - Exterior Looks
Few people can muster much excitement about the process of home improvement. Images of plans, contractors, dust, hundreds of fabric swatches and new furniture dizzily circle through our heads when confronted with the potential task of revitalizing our space. Combine that potential str...
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Wildfire Gardening
SITE AREA: Your Home - Exterior Looks
We live in an area where wildfires are simply a seasonal fact of life. Every year we hear about how we should do something to keep our homes safe, but it's so easy to let it slip down on the list of priorities. This year there was no avoiding the impact of those fires. Admittedly the...
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Last Glance
SITE AREA: Family - Family Features
I am one of those individuals who loves to stroll office supply stores. I have to say, there's nothing like a brand-new day planner. As I crack open the binder and tenderly turn the crisp, clean pages, it's hard not to look at all the empty boxes and think, "This year I'm getting orga...
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Last Glance
SITE AREA: Family - Family Features
I'm 35,000 feet above the earth, daydreaming about carbon offsets. They're the latest thing, you know, and I'm dying to be the first on my block to own one. I may ask Santa for more than one, in fact. I am, after all, traveling 3,000 round-trip miles to New York, and I don't think I ...
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A Tour of Santa Clarita's Finest Salons
SITE AREA: Beauty - Hair & Makeup
We've taken the guess-work out of finding your perfect match. Now all you have to do is read and book an appointment with your salon soulmate.
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BEAUTY Inside & Out
SITE AREA: Beauty - Fashion
Two thousand years ago, when acupuncture first came into use in China, it was based on principles that many Western practitioners believe in today. Among the growing nest of Oriental Medicine practitioners in the Santa Clarita Valley is Dr. Joseph Koh, of New Hope Acupuncture Medica...
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Great Gifts, Small Packages
SITE AREA: Beauty - Fashion
Gift certificates ARE ANYTHING BUT impersonal when you select a made-for-them signature service from one of Santa Clarita's best salons or spas.
13.
Why Did You Steal Christmas?
SITE AREA: Beauty - Fashion
Let's get a few things out of the way. First, this article is not about the "true meaning" of Christmas, at least not in a religious sense. Nor is it about promoting the opposite: unchecked consumerism.
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BEAUTY Inside & Out
SITE AREA: Beauty - Fashion
A strong and flexible back is a precious asset. If you doubt that to be true, just ask someone with back pain how much value they place on a healthy, pain-free spine. These days, back pain is rampant in our society. Obesity, inadequate exercise, poor posture, improper lifting and in...
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Ann on Aging
SITE AREA: Health - Seniors
One of my favorite stories of the holiday season, besides "It's a Wonderful Life" (of course), is that of Ebenezer Scrooge and Tiny Tim and the ghosts - oh, yes, the ghosts - of Christmas Past. Every year the Christmas season starts earlier and earlier and in September I saw a display...
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The Family Therapist is In
SITE AREA: Health - Healthy & Happy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is considered a backbone approach in the field of psychotherapy. Personally, I think the human condition chooses this approach to life as naturally as they choose eating and sleeping. It's based on the belief that how one thinks determines to a large...
17.
The Family Therapist is In
SITE AREA: Health - Healthy & Happy
Children crave and thrive on interaction, one-on-one time and lots of eye contact. A child's social, emotional and academic life begins with the earliest conversations between parent and child; the first time your baby locks eyes with you, the quiet smile you give your child and they ...
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Health Notes
SITE AREA: Health - Healthy & Happy
When shopping for toys for children this holiday season, don't forget to consider safety issues, too. There are concerns such as the risk of choking on small parts, strangulation from toys with long strings or cords, and falls from riding toys like wagons and skateboards. Of course, ...
19.
The Dish!
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - The Dish
You always hear about people who want to make it on Broadway. The heck with that! Make your way to Off Broadway Bistro where every meal is a box office smash!
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The Dish - Restaurant Review
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - The Dish
After 27 years in the Santa Clarita Valley, Le Chene continues to delight a sophisticated gathering of diners who are more than willing to take the road less traveled in order to enjoy what is arguably the best food in the area.
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Navigating SCV's Roads
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
Ask any driver in the Santa Clarita Valley what they consider the worse road in town is and you are bound to hear a variety of names: Soledad and Sierra Highway, Bouquet Canyon intersection, Valencia Boulevard and Magic Mountain Parkway or any road currently under construction.
22.
Movers and Shakers
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
Observed Nothing says "Merry Christmas" like 30 seconds with Bruce and Gloria Fortine. The Santa look alike and his brilliant, adorably elfin wife were making like the Clauses at the Boys & Girls Club's Festival of Trees. Also on hand for the celebration of all things tinsel were Bob ...
23.
This New Year's Eve,
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
What? New Year's Eve is bearing down on you like a mail truck full of post-holiday bills and you still don't have plans? We know most New Year's resolutions last about as long as an SCV snowfall, but did you really put off last year's resolution to stop procrastinating? Time's running...
24.
Great Find
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
It's New Year's Eve in Santa Clarita and the sun has nearly completed its descent into the sea west of Ventura. Streetlights blink on across town and, as if on cue, cell phones start sounding off. "Are you dressed yet?" "Is the champagne on ice?" The worldwide party that is New Yea...
25.
Movers and Shakers
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
It seems that even massive fires can't keep avid golfers/philanthropists away from a good time on the course for long. Case in point: the fun-fest that was the Crawford-Fleming Breast Cancer Awareness Invitational, benefiting the Sheila R. Veloz Breast Imaging Center (that was a mouth...
26.
Get Out of Town!
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Get Out of Town
Drive around Prescott, Arizona, and you'll see a small city similar to any other in America. They've got a mall, a Wal-Mart and a new Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse.
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Get Out of Town!
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Get Out of Town
Food superlatives are admittedly a subjective topic. Everybody has an opinion about where to find the best fill-in-the-blank. Whether it's sushi, steak, pizza or donuts, we all make our cases about who does what best. Sometimes the food speaks for itself, and when it's been saying ...
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11 Questions
SITE AREA: Business
Ten years ago the community saw a need for a centralized location that would allow local nonprofit organizations to come together and share ideas, assess needs and get help. The City of Santa Clarita, along with The Newhall Land and Farming Company and United Way, created the SCV Reso...
29.
Business in Brief
SITE AREA: Business
Uomo Sport Announces Web-based Shopping Uomo Sport today announced the launch of their new golf clothing online shopping website www.uomosport.com. The California-based golf apparel retailer is known for providing the finest in men's golf clothing, shoes, and accessories to discrimina...
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I Heart SCV
SITE AREA: I ♥ SCV
Winter is a season teeming with reasons to be depressed. Claritans are deprived of snow, gloomy about the passing of the winter holidays, and made anxious when New Year's comes around to remind us that we're growing ever older.
31.
I Heart SCV
SITE AREA: I ♥ SCV
I never really believed in Santa Claus, but it wasn't until pre-school that I could confirm my suspicion as fact. Nearly two decades later, I'm still able to recall the December day of dream-crushing quite well. Let's revisit it, shall we?
32.
Dates to Remember
SITE AREA: Sports
It happens every season. Somewhere, on some field, an athlete does something spectacular. It could occur on a single play - the diving grab at the back on the end zone as time expires or the walk-off home run with two outs.
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Valencia High's Girls Tennis
SITE AREA: Sports
Annie Kellogg is building something special at Valencia High School, but it's not what you think. You could argue that she's building a girls tennis dynasty. History would certainly back you up. The Vikings have captured six consecutive Foothill League team championships. And her t...
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