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Today in S.C.V. History January 6
1800 - Teuteu, 34, wife of village captain, baptized (as Tomasa) at S.F. Mission; born at Tochonanga (Eternal Valley area) in 1766, before Europeans arrived [record]
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1800 - Teuteu, 34, wife of village captain, baptized (as Tomasa) at S.F. Mission; born at Tochonanga (Eternal Valley area) in 1766, before Europeans arrived [record]
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1909 - Deputy Constable Charles A. De Moranville shot to death after responding to a Newhall bar fight. Prosecution fails to make its case and the killer walks [story]
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California State University, Northridge Men's Basketball knocked down 17 threes, tying a school record for a game, in a 95-65 victory over Cal State Fullerton on Thursday, Jan. 2 at Titan Gym.
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The County of Los Angeles’ Department of Animal Care and Control relies on volunteer support from the community to provide the additional public service and animal care programs that are vital to a healthy community.
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The Santa Clarita Arts Commission will hold its regular meeting Thursday, Jan. 9, at 6 p.m., in Council Chambers at City Hall.
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The 2025 Annual St. Francis Dam Disaster Lecture and Bus Tour will be held Saturday, March 15, 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Doors open at 9:30 a.m. The event is a fundraiser for the Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society.
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California is experiencing an increase in cases of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, a highly contagious bacterial disease that can be spread through coughing and can cause severe illness, especially in infants.
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department that it's Computer Aided Dispatch system failed on New Year's Eve at around 8 p.m. The system has been down for more than 48 hours, but LASD has assured the public the department is working to restore the system.
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The city of Santa Clarita has issued a traffic alert starting Saturday, Jan. 4. The city will begin the installation of small dividers designed to create a dedicated, safe lane for bikers and pedestrians on Orchard Village Road.
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Registration is open for the Winter 2025 Adult 7-on-7 Flag Football League which will have its first meeting 6:30-9:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 13 at Central Park, 27150 Bouquet Canyon Road, Santa Clarita, CA 91350.
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The members of the Santa Clarita Track Club and Westfield Valencia Town Center will present the 15th annual Mardi Gras Madness 5K/10K and Mini Madness 1K, benefiting Students Off And Running of Santa Clarita 7 a.m.-noon Sunday, Feb. 23 at Valencia Town Center in Valencia, 24201 Valencia Blvd., Valencia, CA 91355.
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The city of Santa Clarita has many valuable resources available for residents needing to dispose of tricky household items like furniture, appliances, large electronics and holiday trees.
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The California Department of Motor Vehicles has announced that Californians required to provide a signature to renew their permanent Disabled Person Parking Placard can now do so online.
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California’s first winter snowpack survey of 2025 showed the snowpack at 91% of the average to date and 37% of the average on April 1, when the Sierra snowpack is typically at its peak.
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A federal judge has barred the state of California from enforcing key parts of Senate Bill 976, also known as the Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act, finding it may infringe tech companies' First Amendment rights.
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The city of Santa Clarita has announced a new art exhibition, “Wonders That Surround Us,” will be on view now through March 17 at the Canyon Country Community Center.
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Nominations for the 2025 Santa Clarita Valley Man and Woman of the Year awards are now open, and will be accepted until Jan. 31. The awards dinner will be held at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, May 2, at the Hyatt Valencia.
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Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo (D-Chatsworth) was reappointed by Speaker Robert Rivas as Chair of the Assembly Military and Veterans Affairs Committee for the upcoming legislative session.
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2004, 8:35PM PST - NASA Spirit rover lands on Mars. Wayne Lee of Stevenson Ranch handles entry-descent-landing; Richard Cook of Canyon Country is deputy project manager; Jennifer Trosper of Canyon Country is mission manager/surface operations [story]
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SCV Chamber of Commerce will host a Non-Profit Love Match: Speed Networking with Local Nonprofits event, 5-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12 at James T Ventress Clubhouse, 24909 Newhall Ave., Santa Clarita, CA 91321.
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The Santa Clarita Valley Education Foundation has announced registration is open for the annual Principal for a Day fundraising event to be held on Monday, Jan. 24.
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Beginning Tuesdays, Jan. 21 through May 27 from 10 a.m. - Noon, ARTree Community Arts Center will host Acrylic Painting Technique Classes for ages 18 and up.
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The city of Santa Clarita's “Exploring Domestic Spaces” exhibition will be on view through March 20, located at the Newhall Community Center, 22421 Market St. Newhall, CA 91321.
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Brandi Howse, your hubs made the news! Go Steve!
Tony Medina
Wonder what someone will make of it thousands of years from now.
Wonder what someone will make of it thousands of years from now.
http://scvnews.com/2015/01/07/not-sexy-enough-commentary-by-abigail-desesa/
No one cares about those “Val Verde” people. If you don’t live in Valencia, Westranch, or Sand Canyon, you are nothing to the legislators of this valley. Truth hurts. Your kids won’t develop the cancer from the toxic (Unchecked) waste dumped in the landfill until every elected official is out of office. Even if they still are in office they will say, “Prove it.” You are all wasting your time. Again, no one cares about you. (Period)….
Where is our city council on this matter. Marsha had based her career on stopping the Ellesmere canyon landfill. Yet she is not saying a word about this issue. How is Newhall Land And Farming going to explain the smell to the people who purchase homes out there. Time to close it.
The material in the pictures looks an awful lot like dewatered sludge. The fact that a plastic liner was used is concerning. Sludge haulers use liners to protect the inside of their trucks/containers like this one: http://tinyurl.com/ndf96zz
The Chiquita Canyon landfill has a history of accepting non-permitted sludge and was issued a Notice of Violation from the county for accepting sludge from Santa Barbara: http://www.chiquitalandfill.net/822012-notice-violation-la-county-ccl-sludge-acceptance/
There are other paper trails that suggest that CCL has been in the sludge disposal business more than once. http://tinyurl.com/q6qpaub
In 2013, HerSchy Environmental took 111 tons of untreated excavated soil to CCL (2,300 tons)after a Castaic truck-fueling station spilled tons of fuel into Castaic Creek:http://tinyurl.com/o73oety
In 2012, carcinogenic soil from Malibu High School and Middle School made its way to CCL: http://tinyurl.com/k6dbvmv
In 2012/2013 tainted soil from the clean-up at Madrona Marsh was sent to CCL: http://tinyurl.com/ltz25p2
The list goes on and on.
Where is the VV Community Advisory Committee in all of this? This group is run by Supervisor Antonovich’s office; they are doing nothing to inform residents about issues like this.
The landfill should be investigated by the County. Someone needs to report this for formal inquiry. Patriot Environmental was a government contractor for Gulf Oil Spill; they take care of cleaning, hauling and disposing of dangerous material. Whatever they dumped needs to be investigated.
They aren’t closing it. There is a proposal to more than double it’s size!
Thank you for sharing this and helping us all continue to raise awareness. I hope more and more individuals will take notice and become concerned. It is clear that this site expansion is not in the best interest of the Santa Clarita Valley — the entire valley, not just those of us in Val Verde.
A few months ago, a representative from Chiquita Canyon Landfill made a disturbing comment. Let me hit the details here:
1. Sludge was being accepted at the Chiquita Canyon Landfill, which is against the contract with Val Verde and their permit with the county.
2. The sludge was banned from another landfill in Ventura County.
3. The reason the sludge was banned, was due to the test results – they showed that toxins were in the sludge.
4. When this was brought up at a meeting, a representative from the landfill admitted that they had not investigated the reason why the sludge could not be taken to the old location.
5. The representative from the landfill also stated that it wasn’t important to them to find out why it wasn’t allowed at the other landfill.
6. The representative from the landfill would not look into the matter any further.
For those who are concerned about the trash that the management of Chiquita Canyon Landfill deem acceptable, I understand your worries. It’s upsetting to find out that they have violated the terms of the contract with us and their permit with the county. The leaders of Val Verde asked the county for and were given an organization called the Val Verde Community Advisory Committee (VVCAC). The management of the landfill attends these meetings and they are required to disclose information such as this to the Board. Based on communications with the VVCAC Board, the management of the landfill has not done so. It’s easy to come to the conclusion that the management of the landfill made the choice and continues to bypass the VVCAC in the hopes that their activities would go unnoticed.
Is there anything that they will not take?
Steve… The solid waste material you have referenced are drill cuttings. This is a non-hazardous solid waste material that is allowed under Chiquita Canyon’s Waste Acceptance Plan. That plan was approved by the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board. Prior to determining if a waste is acceptable for disposal at Chiquita, a sample of the material is sent to a laboratory for testing. The drill cuttings were analyzed in a laboratory and that data met all the criteria specified in the Waste Acceptance Plan.