News, Views, And Insight

 "Light The Night" on Sunday October 17th begins at 5:00 p.m. with the walk beginning at 7:00 p.m. Light The Night  is a national walk in which supporters carry illuminated red balloons and cancer survivors carry white balloons. The light symbolizes hope.  This national campaign helps create awar...

City of Santa Clarita Mayor Marsha McCleon was on hand at the Second Annual Boys and Girls Club Carnival presented by the City of Santa Clarita and the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Clarita.For those of you who were not aware, Mayor McClean proclaimed on September 11th 2007 that the third Saturday...

 A Tribute to the victims of  9-11 in will be held tonight in Simi Valley, California.  It is a Freedom Walk being held at the Ronald Reagan Library.The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library will join www.militaryconnection.com today for the second annual Simi Valley Freedom Walk.  This event begins...

 Was that a typo? What does river grafting mean?  That's us as a community here in Santa Clarita joining together to clean up this portion of the river and do something good for our city and wildlife in general.Did you know that a portion of the last remaining natural river in Southern California...

 Tim Borland is currently running a daily marathon (26.2 miles) from coast to coast on his personal campaign called the "ATcuretour" from Sept 3rd to November 4th to raise awareness for "ataxia-telangiectasia"  Yes this is English!I recently attended Tim Borland's marathon this past Sunday at the...

Josh Abramson of A.Allbright Painting is looking for a home to paint for FREE!.  I met Josh recently as a result of my sister Pam who knows Josh's wife, and he's a nice guy.  I recently learned that his company has been "giving back" to the community for the last five years by donating a  $7,500 ...

I just attended the funeral for Paul McKinney the other day. Paul was a former co-worker of mine when I worked at World Savings in Van Nuys, California. He passed away suddenly and unexpectantly as he was only 56 years old.  I sat and listened to Marty at the church service, Marty is Paul's young...

I just attended the SCV Realtor Town Hall Meeting titled "Mortgage Market Meltdown" presented by Wachovia at the Santa Clarita Chamber of Commerce today.Laura Tombline Mortgage Banker Leader with Wachovia was on hand with a number of her local SCV Loan Representatives which serve our valley.  Mic...

Although the last quarter of 2006 had the largest number of homes sold totaling (147) There has been a notable drop in sales activity since the second quarter of 2005 which totaled (198). The average sales price in Stevenson Ranch also dropped slightly.   However sales prices have shown signs of ...

I was reading the Sunday Business & Wall Street Journal and came across an article written by Gregory J. Wilcox titled "Million Dollar home to be prize in raffle"I am thinking to myself now that is out of the box thinking!  With all the recent headlines concentrating on mortgage meltdown, record ...