Good morning, Santa Clarita.

Nonprofit leaders in Santa Clarita may submit proposals for Make A Difference Day on Oct.

25 to gain extra local volunteer support — the program aims to boost projects needing community help.

The Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station will host another Etch & Catch event at City Hall on Aug.

16 in partnership with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Vehicle Theft Task Force to help prevent catalytic converter theft. The free event offers local vehicle owners a chance to have their converters etched for added security.

The Perseid meteor shower lit up the skies over Santa Clarita Tuesday night and into early Wednesday morning.

The shower can produce 50—100 meteors per hour though a waning gibbous moon made most meteors hard to see.

On Aug. 2, a suspect committed grand theft at a business on the 19000 block of Soledad Canyon Road in Canyon Country and returned on Aug.

11 to commit a second theft (the suspect remains at large).

A man was arrested on felony charges after a verbal argument between him and his sister escalated and he struck her husband with a metal chair on Driftwood Court in Saugus at 2:20 a.m. Sunday (paramedics treated the victim at the scene).

Santa Clarita residents have seen more coyotes and mountain lions in neighborhoods as new housing and roads cut off natural corridors that animals need to survive.

This loss of open space shows that local ecosystem health is changing — each development affects the habitat.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved the next phase of the Bouquet Canyon Creek Recovery Project to restore natural water flow and reduce flood risk in the Bouquet Canyon area—this move is expected to improve public safety for local residents.

SCV Water will begin its Newhall Avenue Pipeline Replacement project on Monday, August 18—installing 815 feet of ductile iron pipe to replace outdated cast iron from 1967—and will close Newhall Avenue from the Roundabout to Railroad Avenue overnight, with surface restoration completed by R.C. Becker.