BUSINESS EXPO-SURE; SANTA CLARITA VALLEY'S OWN IN SPOTLIGHT.Byline: Mary Schubert Daily News Staff Writer Twelve years ago, the business community banded together to convince 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. residents to spend their money right here in town, and an annual tradition that will resume tonight was born. The Home and Business Expo, sponsored by the Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce, will get under way at 5:30 p.m. under a giant white tent set up on the southeast corner of Valencia Boulevard and McBean Parkway. Fifteen businesses will have exhibits outside the tent, and 140 more have reserved booths inside, said Cheryl Adams, commissioner of the Santa Clarita Valley Film & Tourism Bureau and a spokeswoman for the chamber. The purpose of the event, which will continue 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, is to publicize pub·li·cize tr.v. pub·li·cized, pub·li·ciz·ing, pub·li·ciz·es To give publicity to. publicize or -cise Verb [-cizing, -cized] the goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. available in the Santa Clarita Valley, Adams said. ``When we first started this, everyone went over the hill to shop (in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. ). We were very small and very scattered in our communities, and our shopping was not great,'' she recalled. ``I think that is definitely a thing of the past. I really haven't had a need to go outside the area to shop, and I think lots of folks believe that,'' she said. Much has changed since then, with influx of national chain stores and small businesses, as well. Local merchants, Adams said, participate in the expo because ``it's a great place for them to showcase what they do and what they provide.'' A new feature this year is the inclusion of ``home'' in the name of the expo, which Adams said was meant to alert the public that there are exhibitors who specialize in residential decor and home improvement. Another change is that the expo is divided into themed areas such as emergency preparedness and environmental interests, Adams said. Businesses related to the theme have set up their booths near each other, to lend a more cohesive, less haphazard arrangement to the exhibit. Thrifty thrifty said of livestock that put on body weight or produce in other ways with a minimum of feed. The opposite of illthrift. Car Rental is the main tent sponsor of the Home and Business Expo. The company, established in the valley five years ago, will have its display in the center court of the tent. The company - which paid $5,000 to sponsor the event and expects to give away $10,000 in promotional merchandise - employs more than two dozen people, rents a fleet of more than 400 Chrysler vehicles Vehicles built by the Chrysler Corporation are cars bearing the name "Chrysler" rather than one of their subsidiary companies (Dodge, Jeep, and Plymouth for examples). Most Chryslers have been luxury cars, with the exception of their 1970s European models which were developed by and runs a limousine and shuttle service called Dyer Livery LIVERY, Engl. law. 1. The delivery of possession of lands to those tenants who hold of the king in capite, or knight's service. 2. Livery was also the name of a writ which lay for the heir of age, to obtain the possession of seisin of his lands at the king's hands. F. N. B. 155. 3. , said Mark Dyer, president and co-owner of the franchise. ``It's great exposure,'' Dyer said. Adams said a cross-section of companies will be represented at the Home and Business Expo - from medical, construction, business equipment, financial analysts and bankers to investment companies, developers, personnel agencies and restaurants. Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, Transit buses will pick up and drop off this weekend at the Home and Business Expo, and the city will have displays to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Santa Clarita's incorporation. Also represented will be local nonprofit agencies including the American Red Cross American Red Cross: see Red Cross. , the Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society, the Association to Aid Victims of Domestic Violence and the Santa Clarita Valley Boys & Girls Club Girls Club is a 2002 American television series created by David E. Kelley, who was also it's producer and executive producer. Only two out of a total of thirteen episodes created were broadcast on Fox Television in the United States and Global Television in Canada. . CAPTION(S): 3 Photos Photo: (1--color) A worker carries tables into tents set up for this weekend's Home and Business Expo. (2--color) Rusty Parr shows his 4-year-old son, Adam, where to put a box of displays for the Home and Business Expo at the southeast corner of Valencia Boulevard and McBean Parkway in Valencia. (3) Augustine Martinez of A.V. Party Rentals erects a fence at the expo. John Lazar/Special to the Daily News |
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