
Talking with his hands
The first time Allan Trautman put a puppet on his hand was at his first audition. “I was just looking for acting work,” he said. Trautman had just graduated from

The first time Allan Trautman put a puppet on his hand was at his first audition. “I was just looking for acting work,” he said. Trautman had just graduated from

It’s one of the very first moves that helps Bill Phillips of Stevenson Ranch the most. “It’s been sort of a godsend,” Phillips says. The move, a gentle rock from

It was a happy accident that created what came to be artist Bruce McFarland’s signature style. McFarland, 68, is a Santa Clarita resident, and photographer and fine artist. He became interested

Bert Noriega describes himself and his family as “Americans.” Not Latino Americans, not Mexican Americans – just plain Americans. Noriega, 82, of Newhall and his seven siblings grew up in

Mary Gallant calls her art students at the Santa Clarita Valley Senior Center her “children.” “The students … they became sisters,” she said at the opening of the center’s second-ever

Hardly a Sunday goes by that someone doesn’t pull over when they see Saugus resident Danny Mascari, 62, working in his vineyard. “Every Sunday I’m out here, somebody pulls in”