GINGERBREAD VILLAGE PEOPLE SENIORS, STUDENTS BUILD SWEET DREAM AT HYATT VALENCIA.Byline: Amy Raisin Staff Writer VALENCIA - Novice home builders constructed their houses with care Friday, though few managed to resist the temptation to eat the cement, shingles shingles: see herpes zoster. shingles or herpes zoster Acute viral skin and nerve infection. Groups of small blisters appear along certain nerve segments, most often on the back, sometimes after a dull ache at the site; pain becomes and garden stepping stones
The Stepping Stones are three prominent rocks lying 0.5 miles north of Limitrophe Island, off the southwest coast of Anvers Island. as they worked. Grandparents grandparents npl → abuelos mpl grandparents grand npl → grands-parents mpl grandparents grand npl and grade-schoolers glanced around a meeting room at the Valencia Hyatt for inspiration as they made gingerbread gingerbread In architecture and design, elaborately detailed embellishment, either lavish or superfluous. Though the term is occasionally applied to such highly detailed and decorative styles as the Rococo, it usually refers to the hand-carved and -sawn wood ornamentation of houses, some favoring sugared gumdrops to adorn the roof while others fashioned rain gutters out of ropes of black licorice licorice (lĭk`ərĭs, –rĭsh), name for a European plant (Glycyrrhiza glabra) of the family Leguminosae (pulse family) and for the sweet substance obtained from the root. . ``I'm 62 years old and I've never made a gingerbread house before,'' said Marilyn Houston, who learned about the event at 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. Senior Center. ``Mine's not very original though. I keep looking around at the kids' houses to get ideas.'' About 20 students from North Park Elementary in Valencia joined a handful of seniors and spent the day making the creations that will form an 8-by-12-foot village to be displayed in the hotel's lobby for the holiday season, starting Dec. 4. The event is the latest in a collaboration of the hotel, the senior center and the school. Members of the hotel's kitchen staff visit the senior center twice a month to help with lunch, while the students have shadowed hotel employees for career day. Normally reserved for business meetings and luncheons, the small room off the kitchen was awash in icing, chocolate Kisses, candy canes and other confections. Some planted lollipops on either side of the front door, while those with a flair for landscaping lathered ice cream cones with green icing and colored sprinkles and fixed them upside down as Christmas trees in the front yard. ``It was really fun making it,'' said Hannah Eichers, 9. ``I tried not to eat too much candy, but I did have some Rolos. Plus we got to miss school.'' North Park Principal Catherine Laws, her hands caked with white icing, said she jumps at the chance to get her students involved with the community. ``The whole premise is to get the students together with the seniors and the hotel staff,'' she said. ``I wish we could have brought more children. Teachers had their students write essays about why it's important to do community projects. Based on the essays, the children voted on which classmates Classmates can refer to either:
CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1) Fumi Takagi, a volunteer at the SCV SCV Santa Clarita Valley (California) SCV Sons of Confederate Veterans SCV Santa Clara Vanguard SCV Singapore Cable Vision SCV Special Category Visa (Australia) SCV StarHub Cable Vision Senior Center, adds candy to the roof of a gingerbread house for a special Hyatt Valencia display. (2 -- 3) Marilyn and Robert Houston Robert Houston is an American actor and director from California. Robert first became known for his character Bobby in Wes Craven's 1977 horror classic The Hills Have Eyes. He directed the samurai epic Shogun Assassin in 1980. , above, decorate a gingerbread house, part of a gingerbread village going on display at the Hyatt Valencia, while at right, Hyatt pastry chef Cindy Schwanke helps Gabrielle Preston put the finishing touches on her confectionary construction. (4) Stephen Johnson, a Hyatt Valencia sous chef, organizes some of the gingerbread houses that will be part of a village on display in the hotel's lobby beginning Dec. 4. Evan Yee/Staff Photographer |
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