The Friends of Castaic Lake and the County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation are sponsoring the 17th annual Winter Magic Festival, featuring a lighted boat parade.
The event will begin at Castaic Lake at 2 p.m. with children’s games, snow to play in, food and snacks. Music will follow, with the arrival of Santa Claus before a breathtaking display of holiday lights on boats that will parade around the lower lagoon.
A comedy night fundraiser to benefit the Santa Clarita Shelter, “Humor Helps” is scheduled Sunday at 3:30 p.m.
With some magical help from Santa Claus, Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital will officially kick off the holiday season with the lighting of the Community Tree on Sunday, December 5. The lighting is the culmination of the 25th annual Community Tree Lighting celebration which begins at 2 p.m. on the hospital campus.
“If we waited two more weeks, we would’ve been blown off the mountain.” 
A new $1.1 M traffic safety grant has been awarded to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) for a year-long anti-DUI program aimed at preventing deaths and injuries on our roadways. 
The Los Angeles County Coroner’s office has officially identified the remains found last week on the grounds of LARC Ranch as those of Lynsie Ekelund, an Orange County college student who disappeared in February 2001 after a night out with friends.
A benefit run to help nonprofit groups serving challenged children start a camp in the Santa Clarita Valley will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday, November 20 at Mann Biomedical Park. Registration opens at 8 a.m. for the morning full of fun.
Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley is still slightly ahead of San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris, his challenger for State Attorney General.
The West Ranch football team made history on several levels at College of the Canyons last night.
