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PAST ISSUES   -   APRIL, 2008
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Love Is In The Details
SITE AREA: Your Home - Inside SCV Homes
This three-bedroom, two-bath home is just what you're looking for: in fabulous condition, move-in ready and a decorator's dream. Take a moment now to tour this gorgeous home offered at $490,000. If you like what you see, call RE/MAX Real Estate Agent Pam Ingram at 291-1726 for a perso...
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A Castaway Escape Hidden in the Enclaves
SITE AREA: Your Home - Inside SCV Homes
Most girls wanted to be Ginger. The rest wanted to be Mary Ann. The boys? It was a toss up between The Professor and Skipper. But what drew us to "Gilligan's Island" weren't the characters, the silliness or the possibility of making a radio out of a coconut. Even as youths, we were dr...
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Entertaining at Home: Easter
SITE AREA: Your Home - Interior Looks
Yes, we know that you planned on making your son a rabbit costume this year. And yes, we're aware that you've always wanted to glaze your own ham. Next year, Dear. With Easter less than 10 days away, you need to send your streamlined inner-Energizer Bunny off to greener pastures. This...
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10 Exterior Home Improvement Solutions
SITE AREA: Your Home - Exterior Looks
Problem #1: You Need More Space but don't want to Move Solution: by Greg Aliano of Top Construction 775-9945 When deciding between entering a struggling housing market or upgrading their existing home to work better for their family, many homeowners are selecting the second option. In...
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Turn Off the Video Games
SITE AREA: Family - Family Features
With today's popular enticements of video games, the Internet, high-fat fast food and other "sedentary" habits luring kids away, it's no wonder there's an epidemic of juvenile obesity and weight-related health and emotional problems.
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Going GREEN
SITE AREA: Beauty - Features
Raindrops & Roses Handmade Handbags Made entirely from recycled materials, these unique pieces of art are produced by Santa Clarita resident Lisa Arvizu. Recovered vintage upholstery fabric ensures that your purse stays sturdy even through heavy use. And most pieces also feature a fun...
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BEAUTY Inside & Out
SITE AREA: Beauty - Fashion
A growing dilemma in our society, obesity is a serious, potentially life-threatening problem. Not only does it pose considerable health risks - including heart attack, hypertension, stroke, type-2 diabetes, sleep apnea, and certain cancers - it can also devour a person's self-esteem, ...
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The Family Therapist is In
SITE AREA: Health - Healthy & Happy
Most new moms truly believe that their love life will return to normal "after." It's the "after" that's the sticking point: after everything heals from childbirth; after I lose the few thousand extra pounds I put on during pregnancy; after I figure out how to live with sleep deprivati...
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Childhood Obesity Becoming Major Public Threat
SITE AREA: Health - Healthy & Happy
In early December the Wall Street Journal reported that a large new study shows strong links between children's weight and their risk of developing heart disease in adulthood. Researchers found that as kids ages 7 to 13 gained even moderate weight, their risk of illness increased; the...
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Center of Attention
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
Newcomers to the SCV probably think our history begins and ends with planting tract houses on denuded ridges, complaining about Napoleonic HOA management and driving pre-teens to soccer practice. Don't hate these newbies for their ignorance. Sadly, the SCV's connection to Hollywood an...
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Last Glance
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Entertainment
So that's it, then. There'll be no more searching for Bobby Fischer. Those wishing to find him need only visit the town of Selfoss, Iceland, where his body was laid to rest on January 21. In kidney disease, the undisputed king of U.S. chess - the erstwhile and enigmatic world champio...
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Get Out of Town!
SITE AREA: Eat, Drink & Play - Get Out of Town
Sometimes you need a place to go where you can hide out for the weekend and do as little as possible. April and I were in need of that with the impending arrival of our fourth child. So, with the kids safely deposited in the care of my mother-in-law, we headed for Summerland one Fr...
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Thank You, A. Allbright, for our 'Painted Lady'
SITE AREA: Business
Yesterday the exterior of my house was white. It had been this way since the time it was built in 1986. Being that I love color it seems rather surprising to me now that I didn't change it sooner, but life and death have a way of postponing things.
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I Heart SCV
SITE AREA: I ♥ SCV
Late last February, the Amgen Tour of California bike race brought Santa Claritans a vision they rarely get to see: people moving on streets at about 30 miles per hour. I know, I know; they were moving on vehicles powered by their own legs rather than gasoline and they were on two wh...
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'Check' Your Ego at the Door
SITE AREA: Sports
If thoughts were like voices, the sound reverberating from CYCL headquarters Wednesday and Friday evenings would be deafening. The clamor would be unbearable.
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