By Maria Gutziet

Nearly three years ago, I wrote an opinion piece in The Signal about the lack of technical merit in the Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB) decision to set new lower chloride limits.  These limits foretold of the sewer rate increases now being proposed by the Sanitation Districts.

Showcasing their motocross talents, comedy, and musical acts, performers from the Iron Circus prepare to raise money for LETMESAIL (Lifestyle Enrichment Through Meaningful Exercise, Social Activity and Independent Living), a Santa Clarita based, non-profit organization which caters to people with special needs.

It wasn’t an earthquake that shook Santa Clarita windows shortly after 8:30 a.m., but the Space Shuttle Atlantis’s sonic boom as it landed at Edwards Air Force Base after a successful 13-day mission repairing the Hubble Space Telescope.

Inclement weather prevented the shuttle from landing at NASA in Florida. The shuttle, with its crew of seven, were supposed to land Friday, but NASA made the astronauts orbit in a holding pattern, circling the globe in hopes that thunderstorms on the East coast would stop.

The Valencia baseball team rallied in the eighth inning, but came up a run short in the first round of the CIF-Southern Section Division I playoffs on Friday. Christian Lopes gave his team a glimmer of hope with a two-run home run, but Valencia lost to visiting Vista Murrieta, 10-9, and was eliminated from the playoffs.

Valencia entered the bottom of the eighth inning trailing 10-7. Dominick Solley started the rally in the eighth with a one-out triple to left field. Lopes followed with a towering home run to left field to trim the lead to one.