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september 2011

by Amy Adams illustration by Maggie Wood

Welcome! Southern California has seasons. We’ve got the new fall TV lineup, college football, and closest to my heart, the new car season. We all love our cars, so it’s no wonder that this month’s > valencia edition of 1100. com is full of car-related topics. From colorful balloons floating along Creekside to traffic cameras haunting our intersections, our staff wrote about bumper stickers and where to get them removed. This month’s contributors include Claire Jennings, a new addition to our community, and Rob Mansour, a local attorney and part-time musician. They went to http:// valencia.1100.com, and uploaded their 120

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word story and photos. You should too. Now excuse me, I’ve got to check on my backyard trees…for some reason the leaves are turning brown and falling off.

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by Staff

Contributors

Janet Long

Rob Mansour

Claire Jennings

Janet Long lived in Santa Clarita for 11 years. She now resides in Acton with two cats, two dogs, two horses, two kids, one husband zoning restrictions apply.

When he’s not practicing personal injury law or handling wills and trusts for his clients, Rob Mansour enjoys playing keyboards with his rock band “2nd Chance.”

Claire Jennings is a sophmore at Albert Einstein Academy and current Editor-in-Chief of the school paper. She is a recent transplant from the state of Washington.

Contributors Wanted! Tailor made for Valencia, our blog conveys an insider’s perspective to the community our editors know and love. We encourage reader submissions as well. Better yet, if we like your posts we’ll pay you to let us run them in the publication. You’ll join the lineup of esteemed contributors above and gain serious street cred! It’s easy...email us now.

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by Janet Long photos by Dianne Gordon

Valencia Car Wash

> WASH ME!

There, scrawled in the dust on my dashboard, a desperate plea. WASH ME. Clean Subaru is an oxymoron isn’t it? But for the girly teen driver, we take Subie to the Valencia Car Wash. “We have a special …” the guy begins, then, “neh, I don’t think that’s gonna work.” The manager calls a staff meeting over the hood and rubs at

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the cats’ paw prints. They give me the bad news: I need major detailing. I give them the bad news: “Just rinse it off.” But, no, these pros could not stop until my road warrior was sparkling pretty inside and out. Discovered next day across the airbag compartment: two perfect sets of dusty girly-teen toe prints.

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by Amy Adams photos by Dianne Gordon

Chevrolet Tahoe

> Sticking Together

Is it possible to have a family, drive an SUV in suburbia, and not have one of these? Observation tells me the answer is a resounding “NO.” It seems that, along with license and registration, every middle-class family is now required to have a sticky, white vinyl representation of themselves on the back window of their vehicle. Often, family

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members are depicted decked out in uniforms or holding accessories that give insight into the actual person’s age or personality. If your family wagon can’t be properly indentified from a distance when parked at the little league field or ballet studio, design your own family decal online at any number of vinyl decal sites for an average of $4 a loved one.

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Valencia Auto Center

> Helium Dreams

In these tough economic times, what would motivate you to drop twenty or thirty thousand on a new car? Balloons, of course! Creekside Drive is decked out like a birthday party. And these are not ordinary, not-intended-for-childrenunder-three latex balloons. These are commercial inflatables. Nissan stands out, loud and circuslike, with red and white checked balloons and

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matching striped tent. Wait, can stripes and checks really go together? Cadillac plays it conservatively with primary colors. Lexus, having nothing to prove, hoists muted white and yellow balloons. The red, white and blue theme, of course, was adopted by Chevy. Toyota? Well, Toyota put two trucks in a pond. If that doesn’t drive unintended acceleration right out of your head!

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by Rob Mansour photo by Dianne Gordon

How Red-light Cameras Work

> Say Cheeeze...

Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa Truth About Cars

 Do you remember when the red light cameras were first installed in Valencia? I think they made driving worse – you were either braking way too soon or gunning it to make sure your picture wasn’t snapped. Just last week the Los Angeles City Council voted to get rid of red light cameras in LA, but Santa Clarita is choosing to keep them. Part of me

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feels the decision is justified because people are behaving themselves at intersections and we’ve had zero fatalities and a significant reduction in collisions. Each ticket is about $480 and the city gets $150. In 2010, SCV wrote 6000 camera tickets yielding the city $125,000. Unlike LA, SCV does enforce its tickets, so until we get rid of them, “Say Cheeeze...!”

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Registered Piano Technician Piano Technicians Guild Serving Santa Clarita since 1987

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by Amy Adams photos by Dianne Gordon

Valencia High School Choirs

> Landing a Whale

Fall in Montana opens hunting season for turkeys, partridge, and mountain grouse. Fall in Valencia coincides with back-toschool, also known as “fundraising season.” With the help of just one Rio Norte kid, it is possible to net up to 18 different types of cookie dough and 300 magazines, with no limits or special permit required. If you prefer

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Montana / fall The Pampered chef

to hunt in a pack, you can attend Pampered Chef or Salt City Candle parties organized to raise capital for VHS choir kids hoping to get to London to sing in the Olympic’s Opening Ceremonies. With so much game now available what will you go after? Will an empty tin pail of cheddar popcorn look tough hanging above your fireplace?

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Tesoro Adobe Park

> Adobe in Our Midst

For those of us who grew up thinking Harry Carey was something General Saito does to himself with a long sword at the end of Bridge on the River Kwai, here’s a priceless piece of local history. The Tesoro del Valle development was built on the site of the Harry Carey ranch, owned by not one Harry Carey but two - junior and senior. (Netflix

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Farmer John Bridge on the River Kwai

Red River, there’s a Harry Carey on either end of the movie.) The adobe ranch house is now a county park. Fire, flood, John Wayne, a Navajo trading post, ample shade - this historic site has everything. Even Farmer John, yes, THE Farmer John, lived here (but not the hogs). Visit this local gem before somebody installs those forbidding velvet museum ropes!

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Dr Novak and her Warm and Friendly Staff Welcome New Patients

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by Claire Jennings

Ralph’s Grocery Store

> Awesome Artiste

Admittedly, I was not expecting to encounter an ambitious art installment in Valencia. Yet, there in the Decoro Ralph’s grocery store, a distinctive sculpture. The material was repurposed Diet Coke boxes, the artist anonymous, and the overriding theme spelled out in plain English: Awesometown. I marveled at the perceptive, existential statement. Yes, this is Awesometown.

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Valencia has grown increasingly awesome as of late. With this art movement already taking root, and a fleet of half-heartedly modified city buses labeled “Hometown Trolleys” trolling the streets, one can sense a bit of Bay Area influence. Perhaps Rice-a-Roni boxes would serve as an appropriate medium with which Ralphs’ own Michelangelo could craft his next masterpiece.

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