Food Pantry
The Santa Clarita Veteran Services Collaborative’s Food Pantry is bringing in additional items for veterans. The Collaborative now offers refrigerated foods including sandwiches, heat & eat meals, salads, platters, etc. in addition to its usual baked goods like breads, rolls, cupcakes, pies, cookies, bagels, muffins, and brownies. There are also shelves stocked with canned/packaged goods including vegetables, fruit, soups, pasta, rice, dried beans, etc.
The Food Pantry hours of operation are 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. The Collaborative brings in baked goods three days a week. Until restrictions are lifted, veterans and their families can come in and complete a checklist of the foods they would like, and a volunteer will fill two shopping bags with your selections.
The Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce continues with its Shop Local Campaign. It’s a new month and that means it’s time shop local, Santa Clarita. One point per dollar spent will be allocated and two points per dollar spent will be allocated at a Chamber-member location.
At the end of each month, the top three winners will be announced with their respective prize. To participate, shoppers can request an entry form by emailing
hello@scvchamber.com. This form needs to be turned in with a copy of you receipts each month.
Forms and receipts must be scanned and emailed to the Chamber before the end of the month. If you are interested in being a sponsor for the Chamber’s Shop Local Campaign email hello@scvchamber.com for more details.
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The city of Santa Clarita Parks, Recreation and Community Services Commission recently met to receive an update from city staff about the status of the Pioneer Oil Refinery in Newhall.
Recreation and Community Services Manager Lance O’Keefe told the five-member commission that it has been tasked with reviewing and revising a 2013 plan for the historic site due to the expansion of the Needham Ranch development next door.
“Pretty soon there’s going to be a multi-million-dollar commercial development all around this site, so it’s time to do something with it,” O’Keefe said of the city-owned property, which hosts California’s first successful oil refinery.
The Pioneer Oil Refinery itself was originally built by California Star Oil Works, which would go on to become Chevron, in 1876. It was used to process oil discovered in Pico Canyon for its first dozen years of operation.
Then, in 1888, the refinery was changed to provide water to the nearby oil drilling operation at Pico Number 4 in Mentryville.
Just over 40 years after that in 1930, the site was officially recognized as California’s first commercial oil refinery. Then, in 1975, the refinery was identified as a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark.
To learn more about the Pioneer Oil Refinery, contact Lance O’Keefe, Recreation and Community Services Manager, at (661) 250-3716.