Wilk Addresses EDD Fraud During State Senate Hearing
State Senator Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, spoke during a hearing to discuss his new bipartisan bill on the concealing of social security numbers by the Employment Development Department (EDD).
In a Senate Labor Committee hearing on Monday, Wilk discussed a new bipartisan bill, introduced by Wilk and Melissa Hurtado, D-Sanger, regarding the restriction of the EDD’s continued use of social security numbers in outgoing mail.
“Little about the EDD is modern or functional,” Wilk said. “EDD has continued to place Californians at risk for identity theft.”
Senate Bill No. 58, introduced by Wilk and Hurtado, and co-authored by Assemblyman Lackey, R-Palmdale and Assemblywoman Suzzette Valladares, R-Santa Clarita, would amend Section 11019.7 of the Government Code so that the EDD would be prohibited from sending major types of outgoing mail containing users’ full social security information.
The Newhall School District announced Friday the implementation of the first Junior Kindergarten program in the Santa Clarita Valley which will offer students who turn five years old between July 1 and Sept. 1 the opportunity to enroll in school and enjoy the benefits that both Transitional Kindergarten (TK) and Traditional Kindergarten currently provide.
“This program will combine the benefits of an early start found in TK with the traditional classroom setting and full-day learning provided by Kindergarten,” said Superintendent Jeff Pelzel.
Junior Kindergarten will be a new model combining aspects of both TK and Kindergarten.
The class will be a full day just as Traditional Kindergarten is but will prepare the children to continue in Kindergarten the same that TK does or make the full transition to 1st grade.
The SCV Adventure Play Foundation is set to host its virtual Spring Thing Fling fundraiser on the first day of spring, Saturday, March 20.
The foundation is working with artists, musicians, nature and animal specialists and playworkers, both local and across the nation, to build a Zoom full of fun breakout rooms as an all-ages, low-cost/free event from the safety and comfort of your home.
Each breakout room will contain its own activity, demo, performance or other happening.
Rooms so far include; digital drawing activities sponsored by the Calibraska Arts Initiative, spring-themed musical numbers with Sarah Melnick on a variety of instruments and vocals, a virtual and interactive hike zoomed in from Phoenix, AZ, an imaginative make your own adventure with Megan Dickerson from the New Children’s Museum in San Diego, hitting the kitchen with Shawnee Badger, and more.
Following months of renovations and preparation for a grand reopening, the city-owned ice rink has a new name, The Cube - Ice and Entertainment Center.