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Share the Ride and Win

September 30, 2009
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October 5-9 is Rideshare Week 2009 and the City is encouraging community members to get into the spirit of the event. Head over to Metro.net and pledge to carpool, vanpool, ride transit or rail, bike or walk to work one day next week. All who pledge will be automatically entered to win prizes, including a Playstation 3 Console with Insomniac Games Bundle, iPod Shuffle, Disney gift pack with 4 park tickets, $50 gas cards and more.
Pledge here.
Below are a few resources:
Metro Trip Planner, Santa Clarita Transit Routes and Schedules,  Erideshare.com for Carpools, Santa Clarita Trails.

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Santa Clarita Marathon: Coming Soon…

September 29, 2009

This Week In Santa Clarita talks 2009 Santa Clarita Marathon.

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Tweet Your Favorite Santa Clarita Photo For City’s Photo Friday Twitter Contest

September 29, 2009

The City is inviting residents to participate in Photo Friday- a Twitter Contest sponsored by the Santa Clarita Valley Tourism Bureau. The contest allows those following the City on Twitter with the opportunity to submit their favorite snapshots of the Santa Clarita Valley via Twitter for the chance to win the Grand Prize- a Flip MinoHD camcorder.  The contest will run through October to give community members the chance to win the state of the art camcorder- and a new way to record Santa Clarita moments.

Pictured above is the contest winners grand prize-a Flip MinoHD Camcorder

Pictured above is the contest winners grand prize-a Flip MinoHD Camcorder

 To enter, just upload your favorite Santa Clarita snapshot and send it to @SantaClarita on Twitter at specified times. Photos can range from snapshots of afternoons spent at local parks and tee times at local golf courses, to cycling trips on trails and nights out with friends at local restaurants. If you’re having fun in the City, snap a photo!

All photos submitted to @SantaClarita on Twitter will be reviewed and narrowed down to a Top 10 and featured on the City’s Tourism website, VisitSantaClarita.com.

The winner will be announced at the end of the contest on Tuesday, November 3.

If you’re on Twitter, but not following the City, visit Twitter.com/CityofSantaClarita and click “follow.”

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City To Celebrate Open Space Aquisition, East Walker Ranch, Wednesday

September 29, 2009
The aquisition of East Walker Ranch represents 140 acres of open space

The aquisition of East Walker Ranch represents 140 acres of open space

East Walker Ranch is a 140 acre site located in Placerita Canyon and the very first property acquired through the City’s Open Space Preservation District. The Santa Clarita City Council will celebrate the acquisition, along with funding partners Los Angeles County and Pardee Homes, this Wednesday September 30 at 4 p.m. on location at 16830 Placerita Canyon Road. 

East Walker Ranch is adjacent to the Angeles National Forest and the City’s Golden Valley Open Space providing residents with passive recreational opportunities and is a notable addition towards maintaining the City’s goals for open space preservation, wildlife connectivity and expansion of the City’s greenbelt buffer.

For more information or to RSVP call: 661-255-4939.

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THiNK Speical Offer

September 29, 2009
Click THiNK bubble for the special offer

Click THiNK bubble for the special offer

This weeks special offer is a picture perfect way to save money!

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What’s new at GreenSantaClarita.com?

September 28, 2009
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The City recently made some new additions to its popular “green” website, GreenSantaClarita.com, including a few new green tools in and beyond Santa Clarita.
 
A new Clean Car maps “Alternative Fueling Station Finder” pinpoints exact the location of alternative fueling stations across California, Arizona and Nevada. A new “Trip Planner” function corresponds to the Alternative Fueling Station Finder, allowing users to plan travel routes according to station locations.
 
The site’s “Builders” section now features links to downloadable presentations given by the State at the City’s Green Building Code Workshop on September 19, and the “Calendar” section now includes a link to Los Angeles County’s Smart Gardening Program, offering tips on how to get a great looking yard while using less water, energy and resources.
Feel the green love!
 
 

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Decoro Restripe Underway

September 25, 2009

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The City of Santa Clarita has begin the restriping process on Decoro Drive. The entire project is set to be completed by Friday, October 2 with the majority of the work to begin Monday, September 28.

Construction commenced yesterday with grinding to remove the white striped buffer area located between the bike lane and traffic lane on the roadway. Decoro Drive will remain one lane in each direction to accommodate through traffic on the roadway during construction. Bike lanes on the street will also be closed at this time. 

When the restriping process is completed, Decoro will include a narrowed center median, two traffic lanes in each direction and one six foot bike lane on each side of the road, which is the pattern residents agreed upon at the Decoro Drive Community Meeting held September 2.

Press release:http://www.santa-clarita.com/cityhall/cmo/press/release.asp?ID=1459

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SANTA CLARITA SKATERS GO WILD AT VOLCOM SKATE CONTEST

September 24, 2009
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The City’s Skate Park played host to Volcom Stone’s Wild in the Parks skate contest this past Saturday, September 19, and close to 1,000 local skaters and community members came out in support of the local skate community.
More than 200 skaters from throughout California swarmed the City’s Skate Park to compete in the free-entry, jam format skate contest. Skaters competed in three ‘zones’: 14-, 15+ and Pro Am, pulling their gnarliest tricks for the chance at a spot at the Wild in the Parks Championships and its 20,000 cash prize.
Volcom judges chose the seven best competitors overall in each zone to move on to the Championships, held this Saturday, September 26 in Phoenix, Az. Among the Championship qualifiers were Santa Clarita Skate Park regulars like Luck Hackney, JC Llamas, Nick Glaze, Sagan Weber, Brandon Thompson and Michael Franklin.

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The Santa Clarita ‘Punt, Pass and Kick’ competition

September 24, 2009

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The Santa Clarita ‘Punt, Pass and Kick’ competition will include boys and girls divisions broken down by age: 8/9, 10/11, 12/13 and 14/15. The winner of each boy’s and girl’s age division at the Central Park’s competition will qualify to represent the City of Santa Clarita’s Youth Sports Program at the Sectional Competition in October.

The winners of the Sectional Competition will  move on to the Team Championships at a San Diego Chargers game, and the top four scorers among the Team Championships first-place finalists in each age division will advance to the National Finals, held at an NFL Playoff game in January.

There is no registration required for the event, so community members are invited to show up at Central Park to show off their skills. The competition will be held at Central Park’s Multipurpose Field #4.

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CITY AWARDED $4.6 MILLION FOR GREEN ENERGY IMPROVEMENTS

September 23, 2009

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Santa Clarita has been awarded $4,620,000 in funding for innovative environmental technologies as part of the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Transit Investments in Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER). Santa Clarita received the fifth largest amount awarded through the competitive grant program, which distributed $100 million in funding among 43 transit agencies selected nationwide.

As the City stated in its proposal to the FTA, Santa Clarita will use the awarded funding to add canopies topped with photovoltaic modules to its Transit Maintenance Facility (TMF), which will generate 95 percent of the electricity required to power the site. The advanced canopies will also reduce operating and maintenance costs by providing shade for full-size inter-city and commuter buses.

The $4,620,000 awarded to Santa Clarita is the full amount the City requested. The TIGGER funding is the City’s first competitive grant awarded though the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.  Press Release:http://www.santa-clarita.com/cityhall/cmo/press/release.asp?ID=1456

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