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5 C ENTS TSEPThEMBER e-O CT OBGER 20a08 zetteYE.AR 14, N UMBER 3 Street Art Festival Returns To Newhall. The Street Art Festival is a free outdoor event, For First Time, It’s The open to the public, and features live entertainment: “Main Street” Art Festival. local and international dance performances, live music, fine arts and crafts, hands-on art activities, and the fine art of street painting. By JENNI SHADLE, ARTS & E VENTS COORDINATOR , CITY OF SANTA CLARITA . The highlight of the festival is the Street Painter Block, sponsored by Glen Ivy Day Spa, where you can R The Santa Clarita Street Art Festival will highlight watch the unique process and display of featured and E L L O a spectrum of artistic talent in Old Town Newhall on guest street painters on Main Street. R G T September 27 and 28. All weekend long, watch street painters create a T O C Sponsored by Lockheed Federal Credit Union, work of art, from a beginning outline to the final master - S this exciting two-day festival will be located along Main piece. The four featured street painters for this year are VISITORS TO THE FESTIVAL CAN WATCH GUEST ARTISTS Street between Lyons Avenue and 5th Street. CONTINUED ON PAGE 16. CREATE PASTEL ART MASTERPIECES ON MAIN STREET. Downtown Projects Moving Forward. Placerita By CHRIS PRICE, Teacher ASSISTANT CITY ENGINEER , CITY OF SANTA CLARITA . Named Best As mentioned in the last edition of the Gazette, the city of Santa Clarita completed contract negotiations with an award-winning In District. architect to design the new Newhall Library. Several public meetings have already Parr To Represent Local Schools been held to discuss the size and makeup of In County Competition. this exciting anchor to the Old Town Newhall redevelopment area. The first official public workshop for the design of the library was held By PAT WILLETT, Wednesday, August 20, at Hart Hall. WILLIAM S. H ART UNION A diverse and exiting group of commu - HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT . nity volunteers with varied interests in the N E D library assembled to hear introductions and R Christine Parr, an English Language O W brief presentations from Richard D’Amato, N Development teacher and ELD coordina - O E principal architect for civic buildings at LPA L tor at Placerita Junior High School, has Inc. Rick is a dynamic presenter and excels in MAKING IT FIT — Participants in an August 20 workshop were given been named Teacher of the Year for the the art of public participation. proportionally sized cutouts of library and parking facilities and were William S. Hart Union High School Dis - While he did explain some of the theo - instructed to make them fit onto the future Newhall Library site trict. She will represent the district in Los ries and constraints present in the complex on Lyons Avenue opposite the terminus of Main Street. The next Angeles County competition, part of the CONTINUED ON PAGE 15. workshop is scheduled for September 30 at 6 p.m. at Hart Hall. CONTINUED ON PAGE 6. 2. The Old Town Newhall Gazette. ability to cultural resources. Historic buildings (and non- ©2008, OLD TOWN NEWHALL USA. buildings such as Beale’s Cut) are considered cultural resources. Our LEON WORDEN, Editor and Publisher. General Plan lists thirty-three such resources, from the Hart Mansion EDITORIAL. to certain private homes. They are finally protected under the new or - dinance. In truth, there are more than thirty-three historic assets in and From The Mailbag. City Council Takes around our city. There are some New Library Will glaring omissions in the General Promote Literacy, Plan (remember, this document Step To Preserve was drafted when the city was very Anchor Revitalization. young, and it is only being updated Dear Editor, now, nearly two decades later.) Historic Buildings. Absent from the 1991 Gen - A new library in downtown eral Plan list is the American The - Newhall will bring a number of bene - If you’re a regular Gazette though, was something done about ater, aka American Legion Hall, fits to our community. reader, you know we emphasize it. That’s when the City Council built by Bill Hart in Newhall in As the superintendent of schools Newhall’s history. unanimously approved an ordi - 1940. Absent is the Saugus Speed - in a district that includes the redevel - In this edition, you’ll read nance to prohibit the demolition of way, whose grandstands and out - opment area, I was pleased to serve on about silent screen star Bill Hart, more than sixty historic and “po - buildings date to the mid-1920s the city’s Newhall Library Committee THE COMMUNITY HAS the oil workers out at Mentryville, tentially historic” structures in when the racetrack was a rodeo because I knew a modern library OUTGROWN THE and more. Santa Clarita, primarily in Newhall. grounds. Absent is the Harry would be a valuable asset for the CURRENT NEWHALL Why? Because history sets Carey Ranch in Saugus (now a Newhall area. BRANCH LIBRARY. Newhall apart from other South - The new Historic Preserva - county park surrounded by the I also write this letter as a parent land communities. tion Ordinance protects certain Tesoro Del Valle development). of children who used the Newhall California’s first documented identified properties from demoli - Yes, the Western movie branch library and as someone who gold discovery. The dawn of the tion or major alteration. star’s ranch is outside city limits, was involved in bringing a small the - state’s oil industry. The earliest What’s “major” alteration? but the General Plan isn’t limited ater to Old Town Newhall as part of The Gazette. Western filming. Folks in Newhall Well, Gazette readers might re - to the city. Mentryville and the Oak the effort to draw people to the area. did it all – some of it before there member the Tex Williams house. of the Golden Dream are on the Libraries have changed DISTRIBUTION: FIFTY-FIVE THOUSAND. even was a “Newhall.” The owners of the former home of list, and they’re in unincorporated immensely since the Newhall library Many other cities have to fake the popular 1940s Western singer county territory. was built. A new library in downtown LEON WORDEN it if they want to create an Old pulled a remodeling permit and lit - So the new Historic Preser - Newhall can serve not only as a Editor And Publisher. Town. Not Santa Clarita. Not in erally remodeled it to the ground. vation Ordinance looks beyond the resource for students and adults, but [email protected] Newhall. There was nothing on the books to General Plan and includes proper - also as a repository for the communi - TIM WHYTE For a community so rich in prevent it. ties listed in the Downtown ty’s artifacts, a connection to cyber - Production And Layout. history, you’d think our city elders Ironically, the new ordinance Newhall Specific Plan, the docu - space – and the wealth of resource that [email protected] would have passed laws long ago to would not have saved the Tex ment that guides redevelopment. implies – and a community gathering prevent the demolition of historic Williams house, even though it The Specific Plan lists prop - place. PATTI RASMUSSEN structures that were personally fi - was in Newhall, and even though erties in Newhall that are “poten - As superintendent, I envision a Chief Correspondent. nanced by Bill Hart, or built out of its “alteration” got the ball rolling tially historic.” In drafting the plan, safe place where students can go after [email protected] lumber from the cabins in Men - on the new ordinance. the city hired a consultant who sur - school hours for research, assistance, tryville. The ordinance protects only veyed properties in Newhall and motivation and guidance. I see a place The Old Town Newhall Gazette is pub - But no. the properties that are listed in identified those that warranted fur - that can establish beneficial partner - lished by Old Town Newhall USA, an Yes, the Historical Society Santa Clarita’s General Plan and ther investigation to determine ships with our elementary schools. SCV Communications Group company. has worked long and hard since the Downtown Newhall Specific whether they were truly historic – As a parent I know that a pleasant 1975 to protect historic buildings; Plan. (The Tex Williams house was such as the American Theater. (It’s and welcoming space with an up-to- Send Correspondence To: since cityhood in 1987, our munic - on neither.) on the Specific Plan list.) date and expansive collection will fur - OLD TOWN NEWHALL USA ipal leaders have recognized the In 1991 when Santa Clarita That investigation has not yet ther encourage community literacy. Post Office Box 802993 value of our history – both as a was new, the city adopted its first happened, it needs to happen, and As a resident I know that the metaphor for a shared identity and General Plan – the document that the City Council has indicated that library will anchor a neighborhood Santa Clarita, Ca. 91380 as an exploitable resource in a guides the development of the city. it will happen. revitalization that is sorely needed. A [email protected] tourism economy, Melody Ranch General plans assess all sorts of In the meantime, the new new library capping off Main Street VISIT OLD TOWN NEWHALL being perhaps the prime example. things, from transportation infra - Historic Preservation Ordinance will be a terrific municipal “bookend” ON THE INTERNET www.oldtownnewhall.com Not until August 2008, structure to air quality, water avail - CONTINUED ON PAGE 13. CONTINUED ON PAGE 13. 3. Fall Is Jam-Packed With Progress, Events.

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