BRIEFLY FESTIVAL OF TREES SET THIS WEEKEND.The annual Festival of Trees This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. will feature more than 100 elaborately decorated holiday trees from 10 a.m to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Santa Clarita Sports Complex, 20870 Centre Pointe Parkway, Canyon Country. Other activities will include a gift boutique, children's activity corner, photos with Santa, entertainment, food and more. Festival admission is $5 for ages 15 and over, $3 for seniors and children 4 to 14, and free to age 3 and under. A preview party and auction will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, the night before the festival, also at the Sports Complex. Tickets to ``The Magic of the Lights'' preview party are $50. All proceeds from the Festival of Trees benefit the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. Boys and Girls boys and girls mercurialisannua. Club. For information, call (661) 254-3063 or visit www.scvfestivaloftrees.org. - Daily News Santa arrives at Town Center The annual Santa's Arrival Parade will begin at 7 p.m. Friday as the magic man of the season makes his way down Town Center Drive at Valencia Town Center. Santa will get out at Town Square and stroll through the mall's new retail wing before taking up residence in Santa's Village, located in the Robinson's May Court. Children may visit Santa to share holiday wishes and take photos from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Sunday until Christmas Eve. For information, call Valencia Town Center at (661) 254-0213. - Daily News Holiday Boutique benefits PTA PTA or parent-teacher association: see parent education. The second annual Holiday Boutique will have more than 70 vendors selling their crafts and gift items from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday in the Multipurpose mul·ti·pur·pose adj. Designed or used for several purposes: a multipurpose room; multipurpose software. multipurpose Adjective Room at Bridgeport Elementary School, 23670 Newhall Ranch Road, Valencia. Admission is free. All proceeds from sales will benefit the Bridgeport Elementary PTA. For information, call Mandi Bayliss at (661) 291-6208. - Daily News 'Secret Garden' auditions set Auditions for ``The Secret Garden'' have been scheduled for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday in the white building adjacent to the Canyon Theatre Guild, 24242 San Fernando Road San Fernando Road is a major street in the city and county of Los Angeles. It starts off in Castaic as The Old Road, passing through Santa Clarita and the Newhall Pass, where upon its intersection with Sierra Highway near the junction of the Golden State (I-5) and the , Newhall. Auditions for all youth roles will be held on Saturday, with possible callbacks on Sunday. Auditions for all adult roles will be held on Sunday. Final callbacks will be held Nov. 22 at a time to be announced To be announced (TBA) A contract for the purchase or sale of an MBS to be delivered at an agreed-upon future date but does not include a specified pool number and number of pools or precise amount to be delivered. . Rehearsals will begin following casting and will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Mondays through Fridays until the show begins Jan. 22. For information, call (661) 799-2700 or visit www.canyon theatre.org. - Daily News Party planner class scheduled A class titled ``How To become a special event/party planner'' will be offered from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday at College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. , 26455 N. Rockwell Canyon Road, Valencia. Farla Binder will serve as instructor for the class, which costs $40 plus $20 for materials. Call (661) 362-3304 to register. - Daily News Scream 2004 set for Saturday Scream 2004 will celebrate the 20th anniversary of SEAMUS SEAMUS Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States) at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Roy O. Disney Roy Oliver Disney (June 24, 1893–December 20, 1971, aged 78) was, with his younger brother Walt Disney, co-founder of what is now The Walt Disney Company. Roy served as the company's chief executive officer (1929–1971)-though title name wasn't given until 1968-, Hall at California Institute of the Arts California Institute of the Arts known as CalArts U.S. private institution of higher learning in Valencia. Created in 1961 through the merger of two other art institutes, it was the first in the U.S. , 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia. Founded by Barry Schrader in 1984, SEAMUS has grown to be the largest national organization of its kind. This concert will present video interviews and musical works by past presidents of SEAMUS. The evening's highlights include Schrader's ``Duke's Tune,'' a musical work based on a theme created from notes struck on a xylophone xylophone (zī`ləfōn) [Gr.,=wood sound], musical instrument having graduated wooden slabs that are struck by the player with small, hard mallets. The slabs are usually arranged like a keyboard, and the range varies from two to four octaves. by a pet pig. Admission is free. For information, call (661) 253-7800 or visit www.calarts.edu. - Daily News Story hour topic is kids' diversity The city of Santa Clarita's Human Relations Forum will sponsor an interactive story hour for preschool and early elementary school-age children at 11 a.m. Saturday at Barnes & Noble, 23630 Valencia Blvd., Valencia. This Kids Around the World Story Hour will focus on the subjects of diversity, acceptance and sensitivity to others. For information, call Mary Cusick at (661) 284-1401. - Daily News Arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. fair this weekend The 17th annual Holiday Arts & Crafts Fair will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday at College of the Canyons, 26455 N. Rockwell Canyon Road, Valencia. The event, which is a fund-raiser for the classified staff of the college, will be held in parking lot No. 7 at the corner of Valencia Boulevard and Rockwell Canyon Road. Admission and parking are free. A wide variety of handcrafted hand·craft n. Variant of handicraft. tr.v. hand·craft·ed, hand·craft·ing, hand·crafts To fashion or make by hand. hand·craft items will be available for purchase. Most vendors will be taking special and custom orders. The college's Associated Student Government will have a bake sale during the event. For information, call Regina Hall at (661) 259-7800, Ext. 3385. - Daily News Ballet company hosts boutique The Santa Clarita Ballet Company will host a Holiday Boutique from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday at 26798 Oak Ave., Canyon Country. Vendors will include Salt City Candles, Pampered pam·per tr.v. pam·pered, pam·per·ing, pam·pers 1. To treat with excessive indulgence: pampered their child. 2. Chef, Cookie Lee Jewelry, Mary Kay and others selling handbags, homemade jellies, holiday wreaths and more. Proceeds will benefit the Ballet Company's Newhall School District The Newhall School District is a school district in the Santa Clarita Valley that serves the Valencia and Newhall communities within the city of Santa Clarita, California, as well as the Stevenson Ranch community in unincorporated Los Angeles County. Nutcracker Outreach Program. For information, call (661) 251-6844. - Daily News Get data about kids' drug tests An informational meeting about DADS, a voluntary random drug-testing program initiated by Santa Clarita dads and moms who want to test their kids for drugs, will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Nov. 22 in Council Chambers at City Hall, 23820 Valencia Blvd., Valencia. The program is a tool to deter drug use and is not meant to be punitive. Rather, it is intended to give kids a convenient excuse and an ``out'' when they are pressured by their peers to try or use drugs or alcohol. For information, call Tess Simgen at (661) 255-4956. - Daily News Grants offered by local retailer Women's clothing retailer J. Jill Group, through the J. Jill Compassion Fund, is offering financial support on a national scale to community-based organizations or programs whose mission focuses on aiding women and children in need. Written proposals for cash grants from organizations serving homeless or at-risk women and children by providing job training, transitional and/or affordable housing, education, emergency shelter or other types of aid will be considered upon submission of the proposal. Visit the company's Web site at jjill.com/about/community.asp for complete application information. The deadline is Dec. 15. - Daily News To comment or contribute to the Community News page, contact Sharon Cotal at (661) 257-5256, fax her at (661) 257-5262, e-mail her at sharon.cotal(at)dailynews.com or write to her at 24800 Ave. Rockefeller, Valencia, CA 91355. |
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