MAKING A SPLASH RAIN MAY PUT A DAMPER ON COWBOY FESTIVAL.Byline: Daily News 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, - Rain early Thursday morning brought Santa Clarita's season total to a drenching drenching farmer's term for the administration of medicines as solutions or suspensions in water by mouth with a drench bottle, gun or funnel. drenching bit to be included in a bridle as a bit. 50.28 inches, the wettest in local history. The total surpassed the El Nio winter of 1997-98, when rainfall for the annual season, which starts Oct. 1, fell just shy of the 50-inch mark. The question Thursday was whether the rain would dampen this weekend's Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival. Workers were setting up on the puddled streets of the venue, the Melody Ranch Motion Picture Studio in Placerita Canyon, as clouds threatened overhead. Also with their eyes to the sky were organizers of the annual Santa Clarita Brownilympics, scheduled for Saturday 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. . Some 600 area Brownie Girl Scouts Girl Scouts, recreational and service organization founded (1912) in Savannah, Ga., by Mrs. Juliette Gordon Low (1860–1927). It was originally modeled after the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, organizations created in Great Britain by Sir Robert Baden-Powell during will compete in a series of events. It appears the weather will hold through Monday, with partly cloudy Partly Cloudy is an industrial band based in Hollywood, California. Band members
The Cowboy Festival celebrating Santa Clarita's Western heritage started Thursday night with entertainment and featured artisans; it will continue this afternoon with inductions into the Walk of Western Stars sidewalk tribute along 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 in Newhall. On Saturday and Sunday, Melody Ranch will open at 10 a.m. with sales of art and Western gear, entertainment and cowboy-style grub. There is no parking at the studio, but shuttles will run from a lot at 12th and Arch streets in Newhall. For information, call (661) 284-1410 or visit www.cowboyfestival.org. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) J.D. Seibert, a cowboy poet, helps set up chairs Thursday at the Melody Ranch Motion Picture Studio in Placerita Canyon for this weekend's Cowboy Festival. David Crane/Staff Photographer (2) An ATM machine stands ready for use at Melody Ranch for this weekend's Cowboy Poetry Festival. Rain predicted for this weekend may put a damper of festivities fes·tiv·i·ty n. pl. fes·tiv·i·ties 1. A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival. 2. The pleasure, joy, and gaiety of a festival or celebration. 3. . |
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