COUNCIL TO VOTE ON TIME CAPSULE; PROJECT WOULD BE SANTA CLARITA'S FIRST.Byline: Angela M. Lemire Staff WriterIf you could save time in a bottle - a 14-inch steel cylinder in this case - what would it be? City officials are posing that question to area residents, as they plan to sink a time capsule capsule In botany, a dry fruit that opens when ripe. It splits from top to bottom into separate segments known as valves, as in the iris, or forms pores at the top (e.g., poppy), or splits around the circumference, with the top falling off (e.g., pigweed and plantain). at the base of the Jan Heidt Metrolink Station during its opening ceremony in Newhall in early 2000. The 14-by-30-inch hard steel cylinder, to be marked by a bronze plaque at the base of the Bell Tower with instructions for its opening, would be unearthed Unearthed is the name of a Triple J project to find and "dig up" (hence the name) hidden talent in regional Australia. Unearthed has had three incarnations - they first visited each region of Australia where Triple J had a transmitter - 41 regions in all. in January 2050. The time capsule would be the first one to be buried by the city, said Community Services Supervisor Aaron Solomon. ``We want to give the people of 2050 an idea of what life was like in 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. in 1999,'' said Solomon. Community members would be invited to suggest items for the time capsule via e-mail, mail or fax machine. City officials hope to include items that would focus on local history and events that shaped the city in 1999, plus a scroll to be signed by community residents, he said. The city likely would contribute topographical maps See under Cadastral. - Topographical surveying. See under Surveying. See also: Topographic to show its boundaries, as well as the 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, Valley's geographical features and landscape in 1999, Solomon said. Also, an essay contest would be held at a later date for students to write about their generation in 1999. Winning essays would be placed in the capsule, for future children to draw comparisons to life in 2050, officials said. The City Council was expected to vote on funding for the time capsule proposal Tuesday night. The program is expected to cost less than $5,000 to advertise the event and to purchase the steel cylinder, bronze plaque, prizes for essay contest winners and community scroll, Baker said. Buried in time Did you ever bury a time capsule, a vessel filled with everyday items that now are artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. of a bygone by·gone adj. Gone by; past: bygone days. n. One, especially a grievance, that is past: Let bygones be bygones. era. Maybe a Beatles 45 tucked against a newspaper picture of LBJ lifting his beagles by the ears. Or perhaps some bell-bottoms, a mood ring, a Pet Rock, a Fonzie poster, maybe a Rubik's Cube Rubik's Cube (commonly misspelled rubix, rubick's or rubicscube) is a mechanical puzzle invented in 1974[1] by the Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. . If your school, church, club or any organization has buried a time capsule for excavation in the distant future, tell us about it. Call the Daily News at (661) 257-5254 or fax us at (661) 257-5262. CAPTION(S): box Box: Buried in time (see text) |
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