WEB SITES SERVE THE SANTA CLARITA VALLEY WITH INFORMATION TIDBITS : SANTA CLARITA ON-LINE.If you're on line 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. , there are a number of local World Wide Web sites worth checking out. Here are some of the best: Parents who get hungry can find dining help from the Valencia Summit with its guide to restaurants. It ranks eateries by G, PG, PG-13 and R, based on how child-friendly the food and other patrons will be to children. `` `PG-13' restaurants are ones you can take the kids to, but if they get too obnoxious, you'll get the scowls and dirty looks known by the parents of young children everywhere.'' Burger King, McDonald's and the food court at the mall all get the G rating. (http://www.smartlink.net/(tilde A symbol used in Windows, starting with Windows 95, that maintains a short version of a long file or directory name for compatibility with Windows 3.1 and DOS. For example, the short version of a file named "Letter to Joe" would be LETTER~1. Then "Letter to Pat" becomes LETTER~2. )vshoa/vsharest.htm) High school student Mike Ballard has updated his Historical Highways Page with more pictures and history of U.S. 99. An excerpt: ``Originally commissioned in 1926, the first highway along the routing of what was to become U.S. 99 was the Ridge Route The Ridge Route, officially the Castaic-Tejon Route,[2] is a narrow two-lane highway in the northern Greater Los Angeles Area of the U.S. state of California. . It was completed from Newhall Pass Newhall Pass is a mountain pass in Los Angeles County, California, USA. Historically called San Fernando Pass and Fremont Pass, it separates the Santa Susana Mountains from the San Gabriel Mountains. to Castaic in 1910 and over Tejon Pass in 1915. This windy, narrow, two-lane road only lasted 18 years before being bypassed by U.S. 99 in 1933.'' He's still working on his virtual tour of the old Ridge Route. (http://www.smartlink.net/(tilde)mapmaker map·mak·er n. A person who makes maps; a cartographer. map  mak·ing n. .htm) Commuters and day trippers may be interested in the Metrolink schedule for the Santa Clarita line. The site features train schedules and a route map. (http://pisces.ucsd.edu:80/htbin/metro?santaclarita) 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. offers students and the public information on line, including registration information, the campus map, staff and faculty directories, job announcements, and traffic school news. (http://www.coc.cc.ca.us/) |
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