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Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Missing Persons Unit is asking for the public’s help locating a missing Canyon Country woman.
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College of the Canyons cross country competed at the annual 3C2A Southern California Preview hosted by Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga on Friday, Oct. 4, with both Cougars squads faring well at the meet, which attracted more than 20 participating programs for each race.which attracted more than 20 participating programs for each race.
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Trent Rickard scored his first career hat trick as The Master's men's soccer team defeated the Park-Gilbert Buccaneers 3-0 Saturday, Oct. 5 at Reese Field in Newhall.
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The city of Santa Clarita’s Film Office has released the list of seven productions currently filming in the Santa Clarita Valley
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Though each Foothill League varsity football team has one bye week during league play, which confuses the win and loss totals comparison at any time, there is some separation beginning to show – and things should become a bit clearer after Golden Valley meets Valencia this week.
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The College of the Canyons Center for Civic and Community Engagement, in collaboration with COC's Golden Z Club, invites the community to attend the Non-Profit Community Resource Fair on Tuesday, Oct. 8.
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The Santa Clarita Water Agency recently completed a water service line inventory within its service area to document the material of the water service pipeline and fittings that come from the water meter to just outside of homes and businesses.
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Pinkalicious can’t stop eating pink cupcakes despite warnings from her parents. Her pink indulgence lands her at the doctor's office with “Pinkititis,” an affliction that turns her pink from head to toe.
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Circle of Hope is painting the town pink in October in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
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The Chiquita Landfill Community Advisory Board will meet Tuesday, Oct. 8, 6 p.m. at the Castaic Library, 27971 Sloan Canyon Road, Castaic, CA 91384.
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1849 - Jayhawkers encounter Bennett-Arcan party in southern Utah; latter makes wrong decision, heads through Death Valley toward SCV [story]
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2000 - Movie stuntman Richard Farnsworth, 2000 Newhall Walk of Western Stars inductee, and Dr. Robert Rockwell, first COC president, die on the same day [Farnsworth story] [Rockwell story]
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1970 - College of the Canyons' first on-campus classes held in portable buildings located just south of future Cougar Stadium [story]
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The Saugus Union School District Governing Board of Trustees will hold a regular meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 8 beginning at 6:30 p.m.
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The Los Angeles County Health Officer has issued an excessive heat warning as high temperatures in the triple digits have been forecast for the Santa Clarita Valley Saturday, Oct. 5 through Monday, Oct. 7.
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Eclipse Theatre LA presents Ray Bradbury’s "Something Wicked This Way Comes," an adaptation of the classic novel by the legendary science fiction and horror author, on select dates in October in Old Town Newhall.
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October is National Women's Small Business Month and to celebrate Los Angeles County Fifth District Superviser Kathryn Barger honored three Fifth District small business owners at the Board of Supervisors meeting held Tuesday, Oct. 1.
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Dr. Jason Wright, an astronomy and astrophysics professor at Penn State, will present “Intelligent Ways to Search for Extraterrestrials” at the College of the Canyons Fall 2024 Star Party on Friday, Nov. 1.
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The city of Santa Clarita will present the cult classic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show weekend showings from Friday, Oct. 25 - Sunday, Oct. 27 at the Centre, 20880 Centre Pointe Parkway, Saugus, CA 91350.
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The Santa Clarita City Council will hold its regular meeting Tuesday, Oct. 8, in open session beginning at 6 p.m.
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Los Angeles County Fifth District Supervisor Kathryn Barger recently honored Donna Deutchman, the retired Chief Executive Officer of Homes 4 Families, a non-profit organization exclusively dedicated to helping veterans and their families attain affordable housing
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The award-winning Hart High School dance team is hosting a youth clinic on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2-4:30 p.m. in the school’s gymnasium. The event is open to boys and girls ages 4-18 and no previous dance experience is required.
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The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk has announced voters can expect to start receiving their ballots for the Nov. 5 General Election in the mail within the next few days.
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Wow, Sylvia. I can see from your personal message that you are familiar with health care issues in the Santa Clarita Valley.
But perhaps you don’t know much about the issues facing those families who don’t qualify for the larger government subsidies available under the new national healthcare rules.
Nothing in the general run-up to this legislation indicated that middle class Americans would be paying the full freight for those lower income Americans that the Affordable Care Act includes. I would be glad to send in a few bucks to help out; but what you are talking about is reducing my healthcare and making me pay more to ensure the healthcare of others.
How much is Warren Buffet paying for the healthcare of the employees of the companies he “owns” or has a major interest in?
And I use him as an example of the few 1%ers who might actually pay.
I’ll stop now before I launch into the Spew-niverse of Socialism vs Carinvore-ism that is our current “discussion” of American Health Care.
If you were a victim of Hep-C, how much would you be willing to pay out of your pocket for Harvoni or Sovaldi? Given the currently known course of treatment, do you have $60k to $100k in pocket money to pay for the best treatment known to mankind?
Of course you do.
The rest of us do not.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell is President Obama’s Secretary of Health & Human Services. She is not reading your comments.
From the article “helping ensure every American has health coverage”
That piece of paper doesn’t prevent a child from being abused in programs funded by HHS.
Secretary Burwell should also keep Congress informed of the appearance of corruption and negligence in HHS’s administration of grants under Title IV-E (child protective services) and Title IV-D (child support). For example, in Massachusetts:
““Policies and procedures fall by the wayside and kids are not being taken care of,” Mr. Arnett said in a phone … Then, with a kid like Jeremiah Oliver, they missed eight visits and didn’t review the case and the kid ends up dead, and the Hardwick boy is in a coma. That is inexcusable.”
“Yet, DCF’s failure to follow that law since, has in some cases, led to child deaths or severe injuries more than 10 years after the Poutre case that initially inspired the change.”
From “Adoptive parents of abused child rap DCF” By Paula J. Owen Telegram & Gazette Staff Posted Sep. 12, 2015 at 9:01 PM
For more information find “Action Opportunity: Investigate Violations of the Civil Rights of Foster Children: Illegal Acts and Gross Negligence at Massachusetts” at reddit dot com slash r slash childrensactivism.
From another news report:
“A former employee for the [Texas] Office of Inspector General filed a whistleblower lawsuit Tuesday, saying he was wrongly fired after raising complaints about the way the office investigated Child Protective Services’ role in child abuse deaths. .. Plaintiff was exposing a known political ‘hot potato’ that endangered the lives of countless Texas children and threatened the careers of numerous political appointees,” the filing states.”
Said one witness: “I know in one county of a director of social services unofficially mandating local mental health agencies to not call the state central register to make reports and required them to call the local staff first and the Local agency would decide on the case. This circumnavigated the safeguards in place by having state central registries. Said director would pull funding and program contracts from local nonprofit agencies if they did not comply with her demands. She was pure evil.”
Said one former foster child “She made a trade off that if he would baby sit for us then she would ask no questions about what happened. The first time he baby sat me, he raped me four times during the night. I ran away the next day.” Her cries for help were ignored.
From: “Action Opportunity: Call for an investigation: Fraud, waste, and abuse in child protective services are endangering foster child victims” in reddit’s troubled teens and men’s rights forums.
Please read the action opportunity and consider joining me in calling for justice for these victims and others.