During a special one-hour board meeting Thursday night, the Saugus Union School District’s governing board voted to begin the process of bringing the majority of the district’s students back to their elementary school classrooms for in-person instruction.
The decision comes on the heels of a late-night announcement Monday from county officials declaring that the case rate per capita had dropped low enough for TK to sixth-grade students to return to campus.
With the Saugus district’s decision on Thursday, all public elementary school districts in the Santa Clarita Valley have announced their intent to return in the coming weeks, with each adopting a similar “phased-in” approach. The district has laid out a plan that involves bringing different grades back in at different times.
Two developments, one for residential housing near the Vista Canyon project and the other for assisted living in Newhall, are one step closer toward construction, following a green light Tuesday from Santa Clarita planning commissioners.
The Boys & Girls Club of Santa Clarita Valley recently made a special delivery of 120 handmade Valentine’s Day cards to Sunrise Senior Living on McBean Parkway.
The cards were made by club members in the week leading up to Valentine’s Day for Sunrise’s 120 residents. They were delivered Friday by Club Board Member, Matt Carpenter, and Club Staff, Ali Campbell.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, children and seniors have been hit the hardest. Children have experienced physical and social isolation with schools moving to virtual learning environments. Seniors, the most vulnerable segment of our population, have also significantly limited or eliminated their in-person interactions due to the outsized risk to their health. The gesture of spreading messages of love and kindness from kids to seniors proved beneficial to both parties.
Abigail Thomas, a first-year COC student, was one 16 finalists selected for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival’s Musical Theatre Initiative Cabaret and Competition.
The College of the Canyons Theatre Department’s devised production “Virtuality: the 2020 Tournaments” was presented at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) for Region 8 held Feb. 10 – 13.
The pre-recorded production, which examines the pandemic along the backdrop of protests, politics and the ever-thinning line between news and entertainment, was one of three invited college productions.
“It was a huge honor,” said COC theatre instructor Susan Hinshaw. “The students have worked so incredibly hard and did whatever was necessary to bring their very ambitious vision to life. I am so proud of them.”