The Summer Job Fair will be located at the Activities Center this Saturday
The City of Santa Clarita will be holding a Summer Job Fair tomorrow, Saturday January 23, at the Activities Center. The Summer Job Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The positions offered are temporary, seasonal and part time and include camp and aquatics jobs.
Pictured is the Whites Canyon Road bridge located just east of the Soledad Canyon Road intersection.
This coming Monday, January 25, the City will begin constructing a right turn pocket on northbound Whites Canyon Road at Soledad Canyon Road as part of its Right Turn Pocket Circulation and Safety Improvement Project. Part of road work will be conducted at night to avoid disrupting busy daytime travel and lane closures will be in effect during construction, expected to continue through March 22.
The Right Turn Pocket Circulation and Safety Improvement Project is funded through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.
The Right Turn Pocket Circulation and Safety Improvement Project is part of the City’s Highway Infrastructure Program, funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The project is anticipated to streamline traffic flow by allowing northbound lanes to flow smoothly without needing to slow for turning traffic.
Pictured is street sweeping along Walnut Street in Newhall.
This monday, January 18, the City of Santa Clarita began its winter, spring and summer street sweeping schedule. Per the new schedule, all City streets will be swept once per month, with the rest of the City’s street sweeping services continuing unchanged. The new schedule will continue until the fall. Click here to view a map detailing local street sweeping services as part of the new schedule.
Local Middle School and High School students are eligible to participate in the Santa Clarita Transit Go Green Art Contest. The contest asks local students to illustrate through traditional art, graphic design or photography how Santa Clarita Transit positively affects the community.
Contestants may choose from three themes for the contest: Go Green and Save, illustrating how to travel green by using City buses to reduce gas costs and traffic; Go Green to Fun Places, showing how to travel green on a City bus to a fun place in the City; and Go Green and Be Safe, where contestants can illustrate a safe and proper ways to ride a City bus while travelling green.
Middle and High School students can win prizes in the City of Santa Clarita's "Go Green" Transit Art Contest
A $50 cash prize and $25 toward Santa Clarita Transit fare will be awarded for the First Prize winners in each age group for the categories of Traditional Art, Graphic Design and Photography. A $100 cash prize and $50 toward Santa Clarita Transit fare will be awarded to the Grand Prize winners overall in each age group.
March 1 is the deadline for submissions. Winners will be notified March 17 and entries will be displayed at the City’s Earth/Arbor Day Festival April 17.
The line-up of performers is set and tickets are now on sale for the 2010 City of Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival happening April 22-25. This Week In Santa Clarita previews the event with Festival Director Mike Fleming.
Yesterday the County of Los Angeles Public Works put out a press release outlining the 10 Essential Items each family should have to be prepared in case of an emergency. With the current storm conditions and the tragedy in Haiti serving as a reminder, the 10 Essential Items are:
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Pictured is City of Santa Clarita workers responding to rain related issues in 2005
With heavy rain in the forecast for Wednesday, January 19, resources are available to Santa Clarita residents. Free sandbags are available at all Los Angeles County Fire Stations located in Santa Clarita. There is a limit of 25 bags per resident. Santa Clarita emergency services staff members recommend filling bags to 3/4 capacity with sand or like material.
Free sand is available to residents 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at Curtis Sand and Gravel, located at 14320 Soledad canyon road. Residents must bring their own shovels. To contact Curtis Sand and Gravel, call (661) 251-2100.
Additionally, residents can fill out eService requests pertaining to the 2010 storm on the City’s website. Examples of issues to submit to eService include serious street flooding or downed trees.
During an emergency residents call 911. To contact the Sheriff’s Department for non-emgergency situations residents can call 661-255-1121.
Mayor Laurene Weste is signs the SCV Committee on Aging check, with City Manager Ken Pulskamp, Brad Berens of the Senior Center and Mayor Pro Tem Marsha McLean looking on
Mayor Laurene Weste, Mayor Pro Tem Marsha McLean, along with City Manager Ken Pulskamp visted the Senior Center Thursday to present the SCV Committee on Aging with a check for $187,000.
r-l: Mayor Pro Tem Marsha McLean, Brad Berens, Executive Director - SCV Committee on Aging, Mayor Laurene Weste and City Manager Ken Pulskamp share a laugh with construction workers completing the Senior Center expansion
Annually, the City of Santa Clarita provides the Senior Center with $375,000 to support the services being provided to Santa Clarita senior citizens, including transportation services and recreation/wellness programs and meals.
l-r: Mayor Pro Tem Marsha McLean, Robin Clough of the Senior Center, Mayor Laurene Weste
Mayor Weste and Mayor Pro Tem McLean were given a tour of new Senior Center expansion and offered their services.
At the Senior Center some meals are served to the accompanyment of live music…
When the visit was over and the check was passed everyone joined for a group photo and celebrated a moment that will contribute to a another great year for Santa Clarita seniors.
The City of Santa Clarita’s Human Relations Forum presented “Surviving the Unthinkable – The Holocaust,” as part of the City’s A Season of Diversity program.
Elaine Gellar shared her story with Santa Clarita
The event featured a riveting presentation by Elaine Gellar- a Holocaust survivor who became one of the youngest survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during World War II. Gellar shared stories from her childhood and offered inspiration and insight into her personal experience.
Human Relations member Rick Eaton with Elaine Gellar
A Season of Diversity and its corresponding events are made possible by the City of Santa Clarita’s Human Relations Forum, which strives to promote understanding and appreciation of human differences while empowering community members to eliminate all forms of discrimination.
Keeping the City’s many miles of public roadway maintained is serious business. With rain in the forecast over the next few weeks, the City’s Streets Division is busy doing preventative maintainance. The pictures in this post show Street Crews out on Sierra Highway repairing cracks in the asphalt.
