Category: jose mier
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Jose Mier Showcases Sun Valley Park
Another Short Drive With Jose Mier As you know, Jose Mier’s Sun Valley website tries to promote our own special area of greater Los Angeles. With a portion of our area covering the nearby Verdugo mountains, the opportunity to get close to nature is extremely close. Horse country is only a few minutes from downtown…
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How’s That Quarantine Haircut, Sun Valley?
Jose Mier Inquires About COVID-Induced Hairstyles The longer we endure shutdowns the longer our hair grows. If you didn’t take advantage of the one-month respite and reopening here in California to visit the barber, odds are you’re looking more and more like a refugee from Woodstock circa 1969. For me as a Sun Valley businessperson…
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Jose Mier Stops Working Out
Jose Mier on New Gym Closure It was a good month while it lasted. I was able to get in some good workouts and saw myself regaining the shape I had lost in the three months previous to gyms reopening in June. I look back wistfully on the Jose Mier net article I wrote back…
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Here We Go Again: Sun Valley (and All California) Shut Down
Jose Mier Senses Some Deja Vu Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered many non-critical businesses and services to close their doors again after several weeks of a gradual reopening of the state after the first wave of the coronavirus hit the state. Among those things affected by this new re-closure are gyms and churches. Sun Valleyites can…
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Jose Mier on Drought In Sun Valley, CA
Surprising Statistics from DoughtMonitor It’s been hot in Sun Valley. This past weekend saw triple digit temperatures at least in my car while on the road. Officially we were in the mid to high nineties. No matter, it was hot. The heat and dry conditions around Sun Valley got me to thinking again about drought…
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Jose Mier: Be Prepared For Disasters
Jose Mier posts suggestions for Sun Valley, CA neighbors. Is It Earthquake Season? If you’ve lived in Sun Valley for any length of time you know this is earthquake country. In fact it was just over a year ago that Southern California was jolted by a 7.2 quake just to the north of us. Some…
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Jose Mier and Sun Valley’s Claim to Fame: Verdugo Moutains
What would any site dedicated to Sun Valley be without the mention of our spectacular hillsides? If you’re a Sun Valley resident like me, Jose Mier, you can’t miss them. They jut right up in the distance and you can see them from just about any point in Sun Valley. In fact, portions of our…
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Fires on the 4th Near Sun Valley
Jose Mier experienced some fires over the 4th of July weekend around Sun Valley. If you read my Jose Mier post from July 3rd you know I reported that public fireworks were cancelled throughout the Southland for the July 4th weekend. That didn’t stop Sun Valley residents–and pretty much everyone else–from launching their own displays.…
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Sun Valley Area Fireworks Cancelled
Jose Mier Opines on COVID’s Effect on July 4th The fourth of July is almost upon us. Now for the first time in my memory (and probably the memories of those much older than I) there will be no fireworks to celebrate Independence Day. I already wrote about beach closures over this weekend in an…
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The Old West is Five Minutes from Sun Valley
Jose Mier Takes a Drive to Shadow Hills You wouldn’t think it, but there are pockets of history here and there in greater Los Angeles. Yes, we’re inundated with paved roads and strip malls here in the San Fernando Valley, but there are remnants of our not-too-distant past if you’re willing to look for them.…