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1925 - By letter, Wyatt Earp beseeches his friend William S. Hart to portray him in a movie, to correct the "lies about me." Hart never did. [story]
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As the Fourth of July holiday approaches, accompanied by dangerously hot temperatures and excessive heat warnings in portions of Los Angeles County’s Fifth District, Supervisor Kathryn Barger is reminding residents to do their part to lessen the threat of wildfires. She issued the following statement today:
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1925 - By letter, Wyatt Earp beseeches his friend William S. Hart to portray him in a movie, to correct the "lies about me." Hart never did. [story]
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Thanks to the cooperation and diligence of Santa Clarita Valley area residents and local agricultural officials, the California Department of Food and Agriculture, working in coordination with the United States Department of Agriculture and the Los Angeles County Agricultural Commissioner, has declared an end to the Tau fruit fly quarantine following the eradication of the invasive pest.
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The Hello Auto Group has announced its third annual Back-to-School Backpack Drive. This year, the Hello Auto Group will partner with three Santa Clarita Valley school districts, Sulphur Springs Union School District, Newhall School District and Castaic Union School District, to support students preparing for the upcoming school year.
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1869 - Sanford Lyon (as in Lyons Avenue) appointed postmaster of Petroliopolis (today's Eternal Valley Cemetery area) [story]
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I save the rubber bands from papers thrown on our driveway and wrapped around broccoli. When we had a guinea pig, I used the shreds from our paper shredder to line the bottom of the cage. (Green and saves $$) The round cardboard circle behind the frozen pizzas can be wrapped in foil and reused as a cake platter. The cardboard mushroom boxes can be reused in SO many ways! Misprints from your printer can be reused as note paper. I usually cut stacks in half and staple them. Plastic produce bags have many uses including doggy poop bags. I wash out plastic butter tubs/Cool Whip containers and reuse. The tops of these containers can be used for arts and crafts: holding glue or glitter, etc. Many of the `to go’ containers from fast food restaurants can be washed and reused. I wash out the plastic Starbucks cups and reuse many times. I have saved large oatmeal containers and coffee cans and donated them to my local kindergarten class to use for art projects. :)
I do all the things Michele Klein Feldman does and more. Reduce and reuse is the key. Very little of what we “recycle” is actually recycled. Most still end up in landfills–sorry to tell the truth or better yet, get you searching for it. However, I’ve never understood these demonstrations of silliness by…living in a dumpster, kids sleeping in a cardboard box, celebrities eating beans and rice et, al. We need real solutions. Not feel-goodism. Living in a dumpster was like camping or a tree house for this guy. He’s young, idealistic and now seemingly celebrated by those who think this is a viable idea. It’s not. Micro house movement-yes, living in a dumpster-no.
Furthermore, I think the idea of sympathizing with the homeless by living in a dumpster is insulting. Really…I have to live in a dumpster to “understand” how much it sucks? Whats’s next do I have to have cancer to understand how much that sucks too. Sorry, I don’t think so!
I’m all for reduce, reuse, recycle, especially reducing consumption since reusing requires space to keep things you intend to reuse and recycling consumes resources even if the items do get recycled. However, living in a dumpster seems a bit extreme. How much did it cost in time, money, and materials to outfit that dumpster to become living space? How energy-efficient is an uninsulated dumpster? And what happens when the first Texas-sized tornado comes along?