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The regular meeting of the Saugus Union School District Governing Board will take place Tuesday, May 7, with closed session beginning at 5:30 p.m., followed immediately by public session at 6:30 p.m.
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The city of Santa Clarita Arts Commission is holding its regular meeting in City Hall's Council Chambers Thursday, May 9 at 6 p.m. The meeting will be held at Santa Clarita City Hall, 23920 Valencia Blvd., Valencia, CA 91355.
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Experience the Butterfly Encounter at Gilchrist Farm open now on weekends thorugh Sunday, June 18. Walk through a tent of beautiful flowers hosting live butterflies that fly freely throughout the tent.
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The Santa Clarita Community College District Board of Trustees will hold a business meeting Wednesday, May 8, beginning at 5 p.m. The board will first meet in closed session at 4:15 p.m.
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The Castaic Union School District Governing Board will hold its regular meeting Thursday, May 8, at 6 p.m. A closed session will be held at 5:30 p.m.
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Fire Service Day Open House will be held at all County of Los Angeles Fire Department fire stations on Saturday, May 4 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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The Santa Clarita Valley Media Collaborative invites the public as well as local creatives, media industry professionals, students, parents, teachers and others to celebrate the next generation of media makers participating in the inaugural NextGen MediaMakers Festival on Saturday, May 18 from 2-5 p.m. at the Canyon Country Community Center.
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Explore Vasquez Rocks during the magical twilight and early evening full moon hours. These fun, collaborative, interpretive hikes are led by trained staff and volunteers and will highlight the park's natural and human history.
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Astrotourism is top of mind for travelers making special trips for experiences in the sky, and with the recent “take-your-breath-away” total solar eclipse, thousands of cruisers onboard Emerald Princess and Discovery Princess off the coast of Mexico caught a glimpse of the total darkness event.
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The Santa Clarita City Council will hold a study session on Tuesday, May 7 at 5 p.m. The council will meet at City Hall, Carl Boyer Room, 23920 Valencia Blvd., First Floor, Santa Clarita, CA 91355.
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Garbage inspectors will soon be paying a visit to neighborshoods throughout the Santa Clarita Valley to inspect recycling bins to insure residents are following the recycling rules in the SCV.
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College of the Canyons competed at the 3C2A State Singles & Doubles Championships for a second straight year, with the doubles duo of Sydney Tamondong and Estrella Segura establishing program history by advancing to the round of 16 at the Ojai Athletic Club.
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College of the Canyons men's basketball head coach Howard Fisher's Cougar Basketball Camp returns in 2024 with three sessions open to boys and girls ages 8 to 14.
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The Friends of Santa Clarita Public Library is hosting a “Spring Bag Sale” event at the Valencia, Canyon Country and Newhall branches of the Santa Clarita Public Library, during normal operating hours from Saturday, May 4 to Sunday, May 12.
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A former public school teacher who launched a racist and anti-immigrant tirade against a Santa Clarita street vendor is being sued by a Latino civil rights group for civil assault and violating California civil rights laws.
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The Village of Pine Mountain Club has hosted wine festivals since 2003. You can taste exciting wines from the world’s top wine-growing regions, with dozens of premier wineries to choose from on Saturday, July 6, 1-4 p.m. at Wine in the Pines.
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The American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Santa Clarita Valley will be held Saturday, May 4, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. at Central Park, with the theme “May The Cure Be With You,” a Disney/Star Wars celebration.
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Ten risk-taking, mid-career artists were announced Thursday as the recipients of the 2024 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (HAAIA).
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- The Master's University men's volleyball team won their opening match of the 2024 NAIA National Championship with a 3-set win over the No. 9-seed Mount Mercy (IA) Mustangs.
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Andrew Skerratt did not anticipate graduating with an electrical engineering degree from The Master’s University.
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Nichole Muro was brilliant in the circle through seven shutout innings and Gigi Garcia broke the game open with a two-run double in the sixth inning as No. 15 College of the Canyons got past No. 18 Cuesta College 4-0 in its 3C2A Southern California Regional Playoffs play-in game at Whitten Field on Tuesday.
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Thanks so much for this article Leon, it is an apt comparison! I also wanted to let you know about our new website and facebook page that is working to address our problems with the landfill.
http://www.chiquitalandfill.net
and on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/C4CCLC
We are a group of individuals who are dedicated to upholding the safety of individuals (past, present, and future) impacted by the Chiquita Canyon Landfill. And this means more than just Val Verde!
Beautifully written. Thank you for so much for listening to us here in Val Verde.
Very well said. The truth is the truth.
Thank you for writing about the Chiquita Canyon Landfill Expansion and our battle with not one, but two giants.
Greg
Mr. Worden, thank you for your comparison’s. Absolutely the truth. Godzilla vs. Mothra made me laugh at a very serious topic. You have stated everything we have been saying for a while.
Thank you, Mr. Worden!
Unbelieveable. We don’t need it, we don’t want it. Every community should take care of their own trash and be trash wise…no plastic bags, recycle everything, and compost. We’d all be a lot healthier without CEMEX and Chiquita. Thanks, Leon.
I can’t thank you enough Mr. Worden for writing this great article! So much is trying to just get shoved through…and it is an issue the whole SCV community will get impacted by. The expansion will be to the south and and the east where the ridge is the lowest and in the landfill presentation they even showed image of how you will be able to see a good 100 feet of the top of the expanded landfill. Nothing will separate the landfill from the Valencia Commerce Center, Post Office, Hasley Hills, SCVi, Live Oak, and the numerous restaurants and businesses currently operating there.
Let’s not even get started on how much is projected to be developed on the south and southwest of the dump in the Newhall development. The landfill will literally be surrounded by residences and businesses. This will be disastrous on some many levels to so many lives.
So really, thank you for shining a light on this situation when other news media outlets just re-word a press release for the expansion.
The figure of 20% of the trash is repeated, however, less than 10% of the refuse at the landfill originates from the SCV.
(The SWIMS reports have an accounting of this. See page 27 of the below link)
http://dpw.lacounty.gov/epd/swims/ShowDoc.aspx?id=391&hp=yes&type=PDF
In addition, the landfill had 3.97 million tons remaining in their contract on December of 2012. At present, they are averaging an intake of 1.1 to 1.2 million tons per year. If you do the math, you can see that they are very close to reaching the 23 million ton limit.
Here is a link to the tonnage report:
http://dpw.lacounty.gov/epd/swims/reports/previews/Report%2039.pdf
Hi Sara! The 20 percent “at most” figure is merely intended to avoid making a misstatement. You’re right, it could be considerably less. But from the state of California’s “waste origin” report, it’s impossible to calculate the exact amount. That’s because the amount generated within the city of Santa Clarita that went into Chiquita in 2013 (132,297 tons of a total 1,029,327 tons, or 12.85 percent) is one figure; but then you have to add in the unincorporated SCV — and that figure is not given. Only the total for all of unincorporated Los Angeles County at Chiquita (63,881 tons) is given. But again, you’re right: If every single ton of unincorporated trash at Chiquita comes from the SCV, the combined total in 2013 (city+unincorporated) is 19.05 percent. The fact is, the Santa Clarita Valley generated somewhere between 12.85 percent and 19.05 percent of the trash that went into Chiquita in 2013. Perhaps instead of saying 20 percent “at most” we should say “less than 20 percent.”
Here is the state report => http://www.scvhistory.com/scvhistory/ChiquitaSourceReport2013.pdf
Thank you so much for writing this article. Honestly I am so emotional about this issue. We live here in Val Verde and feel so alone in our fight. I pray this article will bring the awareness we need. We already deal with the smells and the risks of living near the landfill. The risks and the smells will only be doubled with the expansion. Even though we have been screaming up until this point, we have been largely unheard and stepped on. I plead with the rest of the Santa Clarita valley to put yourselves in our shoes and help us fight our Godzilla.
Leon, I was so happy to have read your article and wish to thank you for making the SCV Community aware of this menace that is literally trying to degrade our valley and make Val Verde an unhealthy place to live. You are correct that there are people who feel they have a right to have some of the $$ Val Verde gets even though they don’t have to put up the smells and health issues. Val Verde is a poor community so the landfill is the big bully here and we need all the help we can get. Their broken promises and outright neglect to fix the odor issues is so morally wrong! I fear we don’t have a chance as they are already making a new entrance for the landfill. A new site would take 12 yrs. to complete (per DEIR) and I know they have not sought other sites. The County is out of $$ and therefore cannot/will buy another site. Thanks again for your great article.
Another Val Verde resident chiming in to thank you for continuing to put this issue in the spotlight.
Thank you for taking the time to write about this important issue. This Valley must demand that
it be shut down.
I’ve read Cam’s efforts in the news for a long time, and I understand her point of view. But I cannot agree to shutting Chiquita down. I can agree, however to limiting it’s capacity and to focusing the facility on handling refuse from the SCV. I lived in the SFV for many years, and remember the days of hauling “stuff” to the dump in Sun Valley. It was exciting to go there as a kid; we could find all kinds of neat stuff to take home!
The world has changed. It is not permitted to take discards from your neighbors once they are inside a refuse facility. Most importantly, EVERY city needs a dump, recycling facility, or transfer station simply due to our economy/lifestyle of obsolescence. We need Chiquita to keep the SCV from drowning in our “stuff” that we no longer need.
Should we become a smarter and more forward thinking society we may outgrow the need for dumps. But I’m not betting on that in my life time.
Keep Chiquita, but limit it to our valley. If necessary, the City of Santa Clarita should purchase Chiquita and keep it only for local use.
Until such time as we no longer need it.
If Vanessa Brookman believes that I am for the DEIR and the landfill expansion, she is not hearing me. If she want’s to take quotes and twist them, so be it. I can hire an attorney myself if necessary.
I am so glad you recorded the meeting. That means you have proof of the snide comment you made while I was speaking.
Who here would have a problem sending our trash to Riverside or Lancaster/Palmdale? If our trash rates rose 20%, would anyone worry.
We would be trading this 20% increase for something valuable; the peace of mind of the people who are affected by the landfill.
Even though I don’t smell the landfill from my house, it doesn’t mean that I am not breathing in particulate matter from the landfill.
How upset would you be if there is a correlation between the health of residents in Val Verde and air pollution from the landfill?
How upset would the Hasley Hills and Live Oak residents be? What if it’s no longer Val Verde’s problem, but it’s now getting pushed northeast toward those residences?
Those who feel okay letting be Val Verde’s problem may need to think again; the landfill is headed your way and once the odors crest the ridge, there’s a clear path to Hasley Hills.