The 234 Apartment

Senior Calendar SCV Senior Center – 22900 Market Street, Newhall, 661-259-9444 Ongoing Events SCV Senior Center Creative Writing Class – Mondays, 2-3:30 p.m. Crochet Class: First and Third Mondays , 9 – 10 a.m. Jewelry Making Class :   First and Third Mondays , 10 – 11 a.m. Emotional Support Group :   Tuesdays from 10-11 a.m. Grief Support Group :   Tuesdays from 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Senior Orchestra – Wednesdays at 3 p.m. Bingo at the SCV Senior Center – First and third Thursdays, 2-5 p.m. (doors open at 1:30) and Fourth Saturdays at 1 p.m. Other Events Women in Crisis: Exploring Solutions to Housing Barriers of Women Who are Seniors Discussion and Focus Groups, September 13 What: With the current housing crisis coupled with limited incomes, many women are finding it difficult to pay rent or make mortgage payments . As both are growing issues, we are looking to the community to provide insight, information, and resources on finding solutions. If you would lik...

Three of the four men charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting the girl are also behind bars. The men are from Honduras, immigrants who found a home at the Heatherwood Apartments. The complex, near Peoria and Colfax in Aurora, is a racial melting pot , one that came to a boil on August 7, when a girl trying to leap to womanhood in a single summer got a very adult lesson. The violence bred more violence -- and more victims. News accounts the next day reported that a seventy-person mob had delivered street justice to one of the accused rapists. Although the reports weren't quite right -- nothing in this saga is -- street justice may be the only justice here. Anna grew up in the neighborhood and has a huge family of siblings and half-siblings. Anna has another daughter who was also taken away by Social Services when Anna went to prison. The girls have a baby brother, too, a child Anna gave birth to after she got out of prison two years ago. That baby has a different father w...