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The Gibbon Conservation Center in Saugus is offering the 2025 Gibbon Calendar for $15 plus $5 shipping. Purchasing a calendar or other items from the Gibbon Center Gift Shop helps support the care and feeding of the endangered small apes living at the Gibbon Conservation Center in Saugus.
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Exercising its mandate to improve transparency and accountability in law enforcement, the Los Angeles County Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission has created a special committee to investigate how the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department handles complaints made by members of the public against its deputies.
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Four students from California Institute of the Arts Character Animation program have been awarded scholarships by ASIFA-Hollywood’s Animation Educators Forum for the 2024-25 academic year.
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On Sunday, Dec. 15, nearly 2,000 people dressed in their favorite holiday outfits attended the Metrolink Holiday Express Train at the city of Santa Clarita’s Vista Canyon Multi-Modal Center in Canyon Country.
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Two CalArtian-directed films earned nods this year for Golden Globes in the Best Motion Picture – Animated category.
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Sometimes the best you can hope for when going against the best is to learn from the experience. And that's what The Master's University women's basketball team is hoping for after getting beat 97-77 by NAIA No. 1 Dordt University (IA) Wednesday, Dec. 18 on the final day of the Hope International Christmas Classic in Fullerton.
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Burrtec Waste Industries has partnered with the city of Santa Clarita to establish three convenient locations for residents to recycle live Christmas trees this holiday season.
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College of the Canyons women's basketball used a 22-point fourth-quarter outburst to get past host Oxnard College 46-41 on Tuesday, Dec. 17, winning its second game across its last three outings.
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College of the Canyons freshman kicker Luis Rodriguez has been named to the 2024 California Community College Football Coaches Association All-America Team, while also joining the group of five Cougars earning All-State Team honors.
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1965 - Signal newspaper owner Scott Newhall shows up for a duel (of words) with rival Canyon Country newspaper publisher Art Evans, who no-shows and folds his paper soon after [story]
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NORAD monitors and defends North American airspace 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. On Dec. 24, NORAD has one additional mission: tracking Santa Claus as he makes his way across the globe delivering presents to children.
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The Santa Clarita Valley is ablaze with holiday lights and displays. Here are few of the most popular spots to see the lights. Some displays wrap up on Christmas night, others will run through New Year’s Day. See them before they are turned off until next year.
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will increase patrols throughout the community and provide other traffic safety programs to help reduce the number of serious injuries and deaths on roads.
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The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has confirmed a human case of H5 bird flu in an adult who was exposed to livestock infected with H5 Bird flu at a worksite.
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The International Film Festival Rotterdam unveiled the first highlights of its 54th edition, set to take place in the Netherlands from Jan. 30 to Feb. 9. Among the lineup are world premieres by two filmmakers who graduated from California Institue of the Arts.
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Established in honor of the late Edward G. “Jerry” Gladbach, a past Association of California Water Agencies president, Santa Clarita Valley Water vice president and longtime local, the 2025/26 Edward G. “Jerry” Gladbach Scholarship application is available.
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On Tuesday, Jan. 21, the city of Santa Clarita will partner with the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority and the local nonprofit Bridge to Home for the 2025 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count.
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Los Angeles County will receive $1 million from the California Ocean Protection Council to advance coastal resilience efforts to protect the county’s iconic beaches from climate change-accelerated erosion threats, the Department of Beaches and Harbors has announced.
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Part of fighting all fires, is restoring the area back to what it was before the fire started. The cost of the damage is a part of the “state of emergency” declaration. The battle now is not cutting the trail, but cutting through the red tape to get the funds that will dwarf your previous grants. When you think of giving up, think of all the fathers (like me) and moms that will hold their kid’s hands as they walk them on the trail. I taught my kids about conservation, history, native plants, animals, and most importantly; how to really appreciate the beauty of God’s work, while hiking the trails people like you made for us. Thank you for what you have done, and I hope I can help you bring it back and finish it.
Thank you, JC. I would LOVE the help as I gain the courage to tackle this project again. Thank you for the encouragement.
It would be nice to show where the trail is on the fire map. Or any map.
You can go to Google Maps and type in “Dagger Flat Trail” … https://www.google.com/maps/place/Dagger+Flat+Trail,+California+91342/@34.3641694,-118.3508796,641m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x80c28daa2ebdb3d7:0x2a7386d6869da0c7!8m2!3d34.364165!4d-118.3486909?hl=en
It is on the Angeles National Forest Maps. And if you have any of the inci-maps sent out of the Sand Fire, it’s right there in the middle of the fire area.
It is South of the 14 freeway off of Sand Canyon.
Hopefully this article will rally people to rebuild it. Sounds like it would be a great Eagle Scout project.
If you know any Eagle Scouts, send them my way!! Thank you!
This is a wonderful story of what one person can do and inspire in others. You’re grieving now and this is to be expected. I hope you regain your energy and will to leave something for our community. I never made it to one of your workdays, but will when you start anew. Never give up, never surrender.
Never Surrender will be my new modo!! Thank you, Patrick. I hope to raise funds again for supplies and tools, and get this trail done. It is such a valuable treasure for our community!!!
Love the map and Google directions (obviously not open to the public now. ).
Any chance you can put up the old map it was found on and also show the course of the trail portion that was restored ?
Maria, I don’t have the old map from the 30s, although I’ve seen it. More than 3/4 of it was restored.
What a shame after all that hard work.
For sure, Thomas. I am hoping to rebuild it as soon as the Forest Service lets me back in there. Cheers!
Dianne, THANK YOU
Thank you for your caring, for your work and for sharing this story that would have otherwise been lost in the ashes. You inspire. You teach. You are is good influence and a bright light when so very much of what we should be caring about is buried under vitriolic rubbish that is far more destructive than any fire.
Dianne, THANK YOU
Thank you for your caring, for your work and for sharing this story that would otherwise have been lost in the ashes. You inspire. You teach. You are a good influence and bright light when so very much of what we should be caring about is buried under vitriolic rubbish that is far more destructive than any fire.
Thank you, Denny. I hope to be able to secure funding, and rebuild this trail so I can finally open it up and gift it to the people of Santa Clarita and beyond.
I am ready to help rebuild this trail.
I am ready to help rebuild this trail, thank you for your time and effort.
Hi Vito. Thank you so very much. I do hope that we can rebuild it. The biggest problem will be the funding for it. We’d soaked $25,000 into the trail when it was burned. We’ll need a little more than that since 3 of us also lost our personal tools. Once we’ve secured funding again, we’ll be out there in force to rebuild it.
Dear dedicated Dianne and volunteers, I am deeply sorry for the loss of such an amazing part of our History. Your work, the path, mapping the path is poof it is there. I know other’s one day will decide to start to build back brush and railroad ties. Donated tools AVs to move and make a path. Your work like those who lost their homes can be built back. I am so sorry, never will you give up after our first winter clears the ash and you will see much of your work is still there. Your work is important for History and don’t give up on your dream. You are truly amazing, so are the pictures of natural beauty you found.
Thank you, Ginger. To rebuild the trail it will take another $25,000 of donations and grants. And it will take lots of volunteers. Towards the end it was mostly me out there alone. I have no idea where I can get grants for this now. The resources are hard to come by.
Yes, grieve for the work. It is disheartening to have this happen. So much work and so many hours put into this project and then to have it go up in smoke…but thank God nobody was working on the trail when the fire started, they would have had to run for their lives and quite possibly would not have made it.
Dagger Flat Trail can be rebuilt. You and your core volunteers and many helpers did a wonderful job carving out that trail and the love and respect you all have for the mountains showed with every foot of that path. It can be done again.
I hope so, Tessa Lucero. It will depend upon whether or not I can secure funding to replace all the supplies. Even my own tools were burned up in the fire. I have nothing left…not even a rake. We had put $25,000 into it already, and we believed we could finish it with the last of the supplies we had. Without funding, the trail will fall in again, and will be lost.
Diane,
I truly do feel the pain that you and your supporters are living with due to the damage from the Sand Fire. All the work that your associates have done is lost, and that is sad.
At the same time, I have to challenge an unmentioned issue regarding access to that same area.
Pacoima Canyon is a well known geological and mineralogical area of interest. Despite the number of mining claims in that area, there are only a few recognized minerals that could possibly drive actual mining claims today.
US ANF has blocked almost all access to this area for several years, based on locking the gates at Dillon Divide. Hiking in from this area is impossible for anyone who is impaired.
Why should I care about your efforts and work if it doesn’t benefit me and others like me?
Jim, We were working to get 3N17 open. The ANF was working on the road to make it useable. The trail head is off of 3N17. While not the entire trail was suitable for wheelchairs, the first 1/3rd of it was. After that the terrain was more difficult, and navigable only by steps which were necessary to contain landslides. But, you could have gotten a “feel” for the trail and enjoyed the spectacular views that can be seen only from the top.
I saw your trail when I hiked up to Magic Mountain in May, and even explored a bit of it on my way back down. When I heard where the Sand Fire was, one of my first thoughts was, “Oh no, and they were just about finished with that nice new trail…” I hope either you or someone else can regroup and restore it someday.
Thank you, Robert Black. It’s nice to know that someone was out there and enjoying it, even though it wasn’t quite done!! I truly hope that I can get the funding and the help to bring it back to life!
I hope you are able to get The ANF to reopen the road once the area has healed.
I will certainly try to encourage the ANF to open the road. They were working on it. I hope that I can complete the trail and they can open the road so we can all eventually enjoy the DF trail.
Having labored at the oar on the stone cyn trail I until it was wrecked in the station fire I feel your pain
Did you know they kill the native trout in the creek and reservoir in Little Tujunga? The water control is responsible for doing it… Today’s world is so sad…