Family Fun

James Fairbanks IV rides the mechanical bull at the 2023 Cowboy Festival on Main Street in Old Town Newhall, Calif., on Saturday, April 22, 2023.

City seeks volunteers for Cowboy Festival

News release  The 28th Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival is returning and the city of Santa Clarita is looking for volunteers to assist with different activities during the event.   Residents

CBS Preschool students raced down the pathway in their tricycles and scooters on Sunday morning during their 26-year-old annual F.U.D.G.E Day event. Katherine Quezada/ The Signal

FUDGE Day, making memories with little ones  

“Three … two … one!” Carol Bloom, executive director for Congregation Beth Shalom’s preschool, shouted through the bullhorn when suddenly children began to race their way down the temporary race

Press release

Whale watching excursions offered through mid-April

News release   Winter whale watch trips departing from Ventura Harbor are available now through mid-April, providing an opportunity to view Pacific gray whales migrating through the Santa Barbara Channel

Participants of the vision board activity quietly focused to intently create their vision board for 2024 at the Valencia Library on Saturday afternoon. Katherine Quezada/ The Signal

Visualizing Success 

Library’s ‘wellness vision board’ session helps participants to look ahead at 2024  The Valencia Library hosted a wellness vision board activity and participants creatively used magazines and other crafting tools

Children in the audience sat with their parents and stuffed animals as they laughed at Arty Loon and his magic show on Jan. 16. Habeba Mostafa/ The Signal

Photos: stuffed animal sleepover

Children, parents and stuffed animals gathered to watch magician Arty Loon and have a stuffed animal sleepover at the Canyon Country Jo Anne Darcy Library on Tuesday.

Lance O'Keefe leads a group into the 45 degree water during the Santa Clarita Polar Plunge held at the Santa Clarita Aquatic Center on Saturday, 010523. Dan Watson/The Signal

Jumping into freezing waters 

“5..4..3..2..1!”   Santa Clarita Mayor Cameron Smyth yelled the countdown as waterworks suddenly activated from the water playground, splashing people. Children as young as 4 years old and adults ran the