- Jim Holt visits Dixon, a farming community in Central California that, like Fillmore, has been fined $220,000 for excess chloride in its water. Holt talked to one farmer who laughed and said that farmers dump excess chloride into the California aqueduct all the time. The water in that aqueduct eventually makes its way to the SCV SIGNAL
- If water pollution from other places impacting the SCV isn’t your thing, why not try KHTS’ interesting article about how air pollution from other places impacts the SCV? The air may look clear to you on a hot day like today, but in reality our air is polluted by cars and trucks on the 5 and 14 corridors which produce ozone and particulate matter KHTS
- Speaking of the 5, yet another big rig flipped onto its side in the Newhall Pass this morning. This one wasn’t carrying fruits or oil but cars. At least one lane is closed LA TIMES
- What is it about Acton that attracts good-hearted people to start up animal rescue organizations? The Signal takes a look at Wolf Connection, a wolf and wolfdog rescue organization that opened last year. There’s video on the org’s site of the wolfdogs
- Bell administrators aren’t the only ones. The LA Times finds out that the City of Vernon -an industrial city with fewer than 100 residents- paid its top administrator over $1 million in 2009. Ken Pulskamp with the understatement of the month: “That seems way out of the ordinary.” LA TIMES
- Efforts to raise the World War 2 dive bomber from the bottom of a lake near San Diego have been delayed. Robert Kofnovec, the Navy gunner who lives in the SCV and let someone else fly in the plane that day, had to go home and will miss the airplane’s recovery UNION TRIB
- Newhall School District gets a $30,000 donation for music program from musically-inclined parents SIGNAL
- The Signal’s front page has an article about the annual “Mindset List,” a list put together by a college that discusses what this year’s college freshmen are like. For instance, freshmen these days have never written in cursive, they don’t wear wristwatches, and email is too slow for them. NYT. A WSJ writer criticizes the list though
- Anti Buck McKeon blogger says that McKeon spent $90,000 for a company in Chatsworth -outside the 25th District- to print mailers. He posts a photo of the building too- is this the infamous Victory Mail HQ? “$90,000 may not seem like much to McKeon and his golf course cronies, but that money could have made a real difference to a struggling company in the Antelope or Santa Clarita Valleys,” he writes
- Not that it will do you much good now, but SCENE IN SCV has a mobile food truck schedule for the SCV for this week. At least three trucks are now regularly visiting Santa Clarita, parking outside the Brave New World comic book store on Lyons
- Trulia real estate website says the McMansion is dead NBC
- Sand Canyon McMansion ad in Variety
- SCV Sheriff’s Station releases 2009 Year Book. Nice graphical design!
- You thought you were safe; alas, you are not. Michael Bolton is coming to the Santa Clarita PAC this weekend SIGNAL
- Letter Writer wants the Signal to publish “good news, things that cheer us all up” page LTE
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- Over the months, we've reached out to @Lucilles_BBQ several times to talk BBQ and got the cold [pork] shoulder. But still, we welcome real Q2012/05/16 10:17
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Very impressive design on the yearbook. Whoever did that deserves a medal.
I have a friend who works with Darren, the Sgt. that did it. She raves about his skills, and its clear here, that he’s everything she’s touted. I’ll pass along your praise.
I should clarify… he was the author/project manager…. not the designer.
Thanks Mike. Aleks helped too.
The Wolf Connection logo is coyly New Moon-esque.
FYI – it’s not too late for all the food trucks this week! Ahn Joo, a Korean pub food truck, will be up tonite. They’re fabulous!! Check them out at http://www.ahnjoo.com
One thing I LOVE about the food trucks stopping at Brave New World is that I can get a Pure Cane Dr Pepper in a glass bottle inside the store. These “real sugar” cans got nothing on the stuff bottled in Dublin.
As for Ahn Joo, their bean curry hummus is fantastic. Their ‘chips’ (wonton crostini) are sorta ‘meh’ for me but I take the hummus home and use that stuff on sandwiches throughout the week. TASTY!
Not a big meatloaf fan but whatever they put in their meatloaf makes it taste great.
You can also get can sugar Dr. Pepper (as well as Coke) at the Rocket Fizz in the town center.
As well, many Mexican taquerias sell bottled, cane-sugar Mexican Coke. Las Lomas rocks!
NICE! I went there a few times when they first opened and they said they didn’t stock any (but ‘maybe’ they would later). Glad they finally picked it up!!
BevMo used to carry it but they stopped last year for some reason.
Rocket Fizz has been sold out for a while.