Mar

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“Prime Bank CD Schemes”

March 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Watch Out! from North American Securities, on the “Investor Traps” list again this year is “prime bank schemes” these sofisticated scams where con artists promise high yield, tax-free returns that are supposed to come  from “off shore trades of bank debentures” Investors are pumped up on how lucky they are to be part of such […]

Mar

19

Eminent Domain in SCV

March 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Newhall, California; The City of Santa Clarita may use the power of eminent domain to develop three sites in downtown Newhall if officals aren’t satisfied with the current property owners plans for their land.
At issue are 32 parcels owned by 18 property owners whose main objective is to build “High Profile” sites for the area, […]

Mar

19

Gold In Them Hills!

March 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment

From days gone by: March 9, 2006 reported in The Los Angeles Times, a snippet of a golden tale about gold in them thar hills of Santa Clarita. The earliest recorded discovery of gold in California, on March 9, 1842 in what is now Newhall, when a local cattleman Fransico Lopez pulled up some wild […]

Mar

19

Arts Education offered at Castaic Schools

March 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment

The Los Angeles Daily News reported on Wednesday March 15, 2006 very good news for area students, the County Arts Commission announced Tuesday that Castaic Schools will be one of eight districts to provide comprehensive arts education.
This stems from the county board of supervisors “Arts For All” inititave approved in 2002. The 10 year program […]

Mar

19

Nicole Ritchie, Naughty In Castaic

March 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment

 
Reported in the Los Angeles Daily News, The Signal and the LA Times.
CASTAIC, Calif., March 18 (UPI) — “The Simple Life” co-star Nicole Richie was filming in a Castaic, Calif., neighborhood this week.
Ritchie, when taping for a future episode of Simple Life 4, suprised a local boy when she asked him if he thought she […]