The American Red Cross Los Angeles Region needs your help in 2023 and asks that you to consider making a New Year’s resolution to become a volunteer. Locally, more than 6,800 Angelenos volunteer with the Red Cross. These local volunteers are part of the almost 300,000 people across the country whose...

Santa’s Helpers is an annual holiday toy drive and holiday experience brought to families in need by the Junior Chamber International of Santa Clarita. On Sunday, Dec. 18, at Hello Subaru of Valencia, the Santa’s Helpers event, co-chaired by Aimee Fishwick, Nicole Fauth and Katie Collins, provided...

Pure joy covered every acre of The Painted Turtle, a local nonprofit camp for kids with serious medical conditions, as the organization welcomed 265 people on Dec. 3 to its first in-person holiday gathering on camp in 1,095 days. It was a festive day packed with holiday fun in all areas of The Painted...

Temple Beth Ami, Chabad of SCV and Congregation Beth Shalom joined together to light the first candle on the menorah at the Westfield Valencia Town Center mall on Sunday, Dec. 18 to celebrate the beginning of Chanukah. “It’s one of the few times a year that all of the synagogues can come together,”...

Children’s Bureau is one of the largest private, nonprofit adoption agencies in California and one of the few that is nationally accredited by the Child Welfare League of America. In Los Angeles County alone, the foster care population exceeds 33,000 children with 200 of those foster children waiting...

The Agua Dulce Women’s Club held its annual Parade of Tables on Saturday, Dec. 3. Among those attending the event was Los Angeles County Fifth District Supervisor Kathryn Barger. “Each year, this special celebration displays fun and festive décor with different themed tables, ranging from...

The Santa Clarita Valley Corvette Club is scheduled to host a food drive on Saturday, Dec. 17 and is seeking volunteers and donations. The SCV Corvette Club’s food drive works to provide food for the Santa Clarita Valley Food Pantry’s families. The food drive is scheduled 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at...

Empowering HeArts Gala is Single Mothers Outreach’s signature fundraising event that began in 2009 in a conversation between the executive director and a photographer. Together they imagined an event that would provide a place and space for stories of empowered women to be shared in a highly visible...

James Weagley, MD, a long-time Santa Clarita family medicine physician, has joined Henry Mayo Newhall Primary Care. Weagley was formerly affiliated a physician/owner with The Doctors’’s Office, a medical office practice located in Santa Clarita that he owned. “We are pleased delighted to have Dr....

Click on photo to enlarge picture. ARTree Community Arts Center is mourning the December passing of Michael Powell, teacher and member of ARTree’s board. Powell started teaching with ARTree in 2013. As an accomplished artist himself, he was able to teach in any medium and was well-known in Amp...