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Smarties: How to make tax time less taxing
Guess what? It is time to start thinking about tax time again. Yes, along with springtime thaws comes that less welcomed season: tax season.

	SCV Young Life sponsors event “You’ll Flip Over” Young Life is at work with young people in the Santa Clarita Valley - being available to students, providing fun, safe and comfortable gatherings, offering students the right to be heard and communicating God's love in terms students can understand.
	SCV Zonta Club offers scholarships Zonta Club of Santa Clarita Valley is now accepting scholarship applications from local area women majoring in business related studies for the Jane M. Klausman Scholarship for Women in Business.
	Divorcing your house along with the spouse The paperwork passed through the system a year ago. Santa Clarita resident Carrie and her husband were finally legally divorced.
	Putting sleep issues to rest Just about everyone has endured a few restless nights of sleep every now and then. It could be anxiety before a big test that keeps your mind spinning well after it should be in rest mode. Or maybe it's the grief from a personal loss that has you sad and distracted as you try to drift off. "It's something about being in a dark bedroom, and the mind starts going over all the problems we ...
	Louise Elerding: Etiquette — embarrass you and me no more Embarrassment - let's talk about it now and get it behind us. We've all known those times of being in the midst of mortifying or very awkward situations. No one wants to be the one to have to deal with an embarrassing issue. Today is the day ... we're going to explore how to be real and deal with sticky issues - and get through it with tact and kindness. Then we'll all exhale. We ...
	The SCV’s own ‘School of Rock’ Connor Bloom pounded on the drums like a young John Bonham, grinning broadly as guitarist Quinn Darrach laid down some raw, crunchy chords next to a massive amp almost his height, long bangs hanging in his eyes.
	ACTION: Valentine’s and every day, all kids need is love According to Beatles John Lennon and Paul McCartney, all we need is love. If that's so why did consumers spend nearly $14.7 billion dollars on Valentines Day in 2009 and despite the tight economy they are expected to spend $17.6 billion this year.
	Healthy food habits begin with family It's not a big mystery where a lot of children's dietary problems start, according to Dr. Joel Fuhrman, a nationally renowned figure on health and dieting.
	Eric Christiansen - Achieve, motivate or feel good? An educational crisis "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
	Louise Elerding: Auto manners - honk if you like etiquette Etiquette is needed everywhere, including driving and riding in a vehicle. Being a polite and considerate driver - and passenger - also supports the safety issues of being on the road.
	It’s all in the family at History Fair The man in the black and white group photograph, circa early 1900s, was a mystery. Tall and skinny, he looked a lot like Bonnie Petrovich's father. That's because it was her great-grandfather, a fact Petrovich didn't know until she dug a little deeper.