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	Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System: About Us
		Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital is a Public District Hospital which is part of the Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System.
		Salinas Valley Memorial employs more than 2,130 people and the Medical Staff includes 230 board-certified physicians across a range of specialties.
		In addition to sophisticated diagnostic and treatment capabilities, Salinas Valley Memorial offers a full range of outreach programs including community lectures, health screenings, prevention education and support groups.
	www.svmh.com /about (288 words)

	Welcome to the City of Salinas, California
		Salinas offers approximately 39,175 housing units of which 20,881 are detached single family residences, 2,863 are attached single family residences, 3,341 two to four unit multifamily complexes, 10,833 apartment units and 1,257 mobile homes.
		Salinas is served by three elementary school districts; a unified high school district and several private schools at both the primary and secondary level.
		Salinas is served by the Monterey County Regional Water Pollution Control Agency (831-422-1001), which operates the regional treatment plant in Marina.
	www.ci.salinas.ca.us /compro.html (1206 words)

	Our Area
		The valley is roughly twenty miles wide and is bounded by the El Gabilan mountains to the east and the Santa Lucia mountains to the west.
		Salinas is the county seat of Monterey County and is also the largest city at approximately 150,000.
		Agriculture and tourism are the economic engines of the county, with agriculture centered in the Salinas Valley and tourism predominant in the coastal towns of Carmel, Monterey and Pacific Grove.
	www.thefarm-salinasvalley.com /ourarea.html (427 words)

	City of Salinas, California - Community Profile - Our Community
		the median age of the Salinas population was 27.8, with 50 percent being female.
		The Salinas Valley is comprised of some 640,000 acres, is 10-20 miles wide and 150 miles long.
		Salinas has an average annual rainfall of 14.14 inches which takes place mainly in the winter and in early spring.
	www.salinas.com /profile/index.html (317 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Salinas Valley
		The Salinas Valley in the Central Coast region of California lies along the Salinas River between the Gabilan Mountains and the Santa Lucia Range.
		Cities in the Salinas Valley include Aromas, Bradley, Castroville, Chualar, Gonzales, Greenfield, Hollister, Jolon, King City, Lockwood, Paicines, Prunedale, Salinas, San Ardo, San Juan Bautista, San Lucas, Soledad and Spreckels.
		Most of the Salinas Valley is part of "Steinbeck Country", which also includes Monterey and other neighboring areas; John Steinbeck was born and raised in Salinas, and he had an up-and-down relationship with both the place and its inhabitants.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Salinas_Valley (290 words)

	AUTHOR RESOURCES Steinbeck's Salinas Valley
		Born in the Salinas Valley in 1902, Steinbeck spent many years roaming the hills and valleys that were used in his stories.
		The Salinas Valley is eighty miles long and produces such crops as lettuce, broccoli, and celery.
		Salinas is said to have a charming downtown with fine architecture taken from the Victorian era.
	www.nhti.edu /library/authorresources/steinbecksalinas.htm (742 words)

	Everett Alvarez High School
		The Salinas Valley, located in Monterey County, is a rich cultural landscape allowing visitors and residents to enjoy the beauty of a pristine environment coupled with easy access to Northern California and Central Coast hot spots.
		Salinas is located 20 miles northeast of Monterey, 60 miles south of San Jose, 101 miles south of San Francisco and 325 miles north of Los Angeles.
		Salinas is the seat of Monterey County, with a population of 148,400.
	www.salinas.k12.ca.us /everettalvarez/community.html (176 words)

	The Salinas Valley Chamber of Commerce
		The Salinas Valley is perfectly situated 120 miles South of San Francisco, 55 miles South of San Jose and 320 miles North of Los Angeles.
		The long Valley expands from the Monterey Bay along Highway 101 and thousands of acres of agricultural land between the phenomenal Santa Lucia and Gabilan Mountain Ranges.
		This picturesque valley is speckled with hundreds of growers, shippers, wineries and thousands of other businesses that support the vitality of active communities.
	www.salinaschamber.com (309 words)

	Leadership Salinas Valley Home (Site not responding. Last check: )
		he goal of Leadership Salinas Valley is to add more informed and skillful leaders to the existing pool, which will in turn result in enhanced community problem solving and development.
		eadership Salinas Valley is a project of the Salinas Chamber of Commerce Foundation, a 501 (3)C non-profit organization.
		The Foundation is governed by a seven-member board of directors comprised of a combination of Leadership Salinas Valley alumni and Chamber officers.
	www.leadershipsalinasvalley.org /homepage.html (160 words)

	Monterey County General Plan Update - Information
		In addition to land use map amendments and population increase in Salinas Valley cities, city growth, in terms of area and annexations, is another factor that establishes the historic and existing trends that affect land use in Monterey County.
		Row crops are grown throughout the valley with grapes on the valley floor and the benchlands and cattle along the hills.
		Most striking about data pertaining to build-out in Salinas Valley is, similar to other planning areas, the significance of the relationship and inconsistency between the planned land use designations on the map and the County’s land use policies.
	www.co.monterey.ca.us /gpu/information/salinasvalley.html (2988 words)

	City of Salinas, California - Our History
		Small tribes of Native Americans first made their home here in the Salinas Valley many centuries before the first European explorers came to California to build a presido in Monterey and missions in Carmel, Soledad, San Juan Bautista and the San Antonio Valley.
		It was on adjoining parts of these ranchos that "Salinas City" was born after California became a territory of the United States.
		Salinas is a very multi-cultural city with contributions being made for many different groups such as: The Chinese, Mexican, Dutch, African Americans and Germans just to name a few.
	www.salinas.com /history/index.html (510 words)

	Pueblos of the Salinas Valley (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the stones of the Salinas Valley ruins are the faint echoes of the communities that lived here three centuries ago.
		Over the next few years the Salinas Valley became a major trade center and one of the most populous parts of the Pueblo world, with perhaps 10,000 or more inhabitants in the 17th century.
		By 1300 the Anasazi culture was dominant, although the Salinas area always lagged behind the Anasazi heartland to the north in cultural developments.
	www.nps.gov /sapu/pueblos.htm (457 words)

	Salinas Valley Fair
		To showcase the annual fair, promote the talent and education of citizens of all ages and provide a year round setting for community service and celebration.
		The 2007 Salinas Valley Fair proved that fair time is fun time.
		Join us next year May 15-18, 2008 in King City @ the
	www.salinasvalleyfair.com (50 words)

	Salinas Valley E. Coli Spinach
		In the wake of the E. Coli outbreak that resulted in the destruction of spinach crops in California's Salinas Valley it appears that the bacterium is so pervasive that almost every waterway in the valley is in violation of national standards.
		The Salinas Valley in Monterey County is a major supplier of spinach and lettuce.
		Many waterways near the spinach fields in the Salinas Valley region are known to contain the E. coli strain from the food poisonings.
	www.lawyersandsettlements.com /case/ecoli_salinas_valley_class_action (364 words)

	CIDRAP >> FDA launches Salinas Valley E coli probe
		The initiative in Salinas Valley began Aug 28 and is scheduled to wrap up next month, a food safety official from the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) told CIDRAP News via e-mail.
		In addition to CFSAN, the Salinas Valley investigation involves the FDA Office of Regulatory Affairs, the California Department of Health Services, and the California Department of Food and Agriculture, according to the official.
		In related news, Utah health officials implicated Salinas Valley lettuce as a possible source for an E coli outbreak in their state in June, according to an Aug 20 Monterey County Herald story.
	www.cidrap.umn.edu /cidrap/content/fs/food-disease/news/sep1406salinasvalley.html (730 words)

	Salinas Valley Appliance & Design: About Us
		Salinas Valley Appliance and Design: About Us Salinas Valley Appliance and Design has been serving the Central Coast since 1930.
		Salinas Valley Appliance and Design began business in the early 1930's.
		In October the name was changed from Salinas Valley Appliance & TV to Salinas Valley Appliance & Design.
	www.salinasvalleyappliance.com /about.html (177 words)

	Salinas Valley Steinbeck tribute to agriculture, and to people (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The videotape was brought to his home by daughter Leti Bocanegra, agriculture exhibit coordinator for the newly opened “Valley of the World” tribute to Salinas Valley agriculture at the National Steinbeck Center.
		Bocanegra was working for a credit company when the museum staff contacted her to consider becoming the ag exhibit coordinator for the new $5.2 million ag wing.
		Salinas has come to embrace its rich historical past — all of it — like few other California farming communities.
	westernfarmpress.com /mag/farming_salinas_valley_steinbeck_2 (1163 words)

	Salinas Valley Psychiatric Program: Home Page
		Salinas Valley Psychiatric Program (SVPP) is located within the beautiful Salinas Valley of California.
		In addition, construction will begin to build another site, on Salinas Valley State Prison grounds, to house an additional 64 beds.
		These expansions indicate a need for psychiatric services to inmate-patients, and the desire to provide such services in a timely manner.
	www.dmh.ca.gov /Statehospitals/Salinas/default.asp (249 words)

	Salinas Valley State Prison (SVSP) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Salinas Valley State Prison provides long-term housing and services for minimum and maximum custody male inmates.
		The SVPP is an intermediate care inpatient psychiatric program servicing primarily level IV high security inmates who have a major mental disorder that has diminished their ability to function within the prison environment.
		Salinas Valley State Prison was opened May 1996, and covers 300 acres.
	www.corr.ca.gov /Visitors/fac_prison_SVSP.html (362 words)

	Search: Map of Salinas Valley CA
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	landWatch: Salinas Valley Issues & Actions
		The Salinas Valley is geographically striking, and is as impressive in its own was as Carmel Valley and Big Sur.
		The tiny Salinas Valley produces almost 10% of all of the agricultural production of the entire State of California.
		Above all, the Salinas Valley is threatened by growth pressures from both North and South.
	www.landwatch.org /pages/issuesactions/salinasvp.html (147 words)

	FOXNews.com - Salinas Valley Lettuce Recalled Over E. Coli Concerns - Health News \| Current Health News \| Medical News
		Salinas Valley Lettuce Recalled Over E. Coli Concerns
		The recall at Nunes Co., a family-owned business with more than 20,000 acres of cropland in Arizona and California, comes days after federal agents searched two Salinas Valley produce companies connected to the spinach scare.
		Epidemiologists warned consumers last week to stay away from some bottled carrot juice after a Florida woman was paralyzed and three people in Georgia experienced respiratory failure, apparently due to botulism poisoning.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,218738,00.html (819 words)

	John Steinbeck's East of Eden: Salinas Valley, California
		Born in Salinas, California and grew up in the fertile Salinas Valley, the "Salad Bowl of the Nation," as it was later called.
		The oppositions suggested in the opening chapter establish the complex mood of the valley: the land is both inviting and unfriendly; light and dark; safe and dangerous.
		Note that, in moving to Salinas, the characters—the Hamiltons and Adam Trask—have traveled west, which, in American literature, is generally associated with the search for a new Eden.
	www.oprah.com /obc_classic/featbook/eastofeden/novel/eoe_novel_location.jhtml (613 words)

	Monterey County Historical Society, Local History Pages--The Monterey & Salinas Valley Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On October 23, 1874 the first train rolled, and the Monterey & Salinas Valley Railroad become the first narrow gauge to be operated in California.
		In August of 1879 the Southern Pacific purchased the Monterey & Salinas Valley Railroad at a foreclosure sale and sold the narrow gauge track and rolling stock to the Nevada Central Railway--far enough away so it would not be a competitor.
		In Salinas, Carlisle Abbott was unable to recover from the financial disaster of his narrow gauge line.
	www.mchsmuseum.com /railroadm&sv.html (622 words)

	Salinas Valley Chamber of Commerce
		The Salinas Valley is the center for Monterey County’s 3.4 billion-dollar agriculture industry.
		Pre-packaged salads and precut fresh vegetables were created in the Salinas Valley, and this innovation has changed the way consumers buy vegetables.
		Monterey County continues to be a leader in agricultural exports with over 580 million pounds of produce exported annually.
	www.salinaschamber.com /ag_industry.asp (263 words)

	Local History
		The collection’s main focus is the City of Salinas and the Salinas Valley.
		When Salinas’ first public library opened its doors in 1909, the stacks were filled with books donated by the town’s first library, the Odd Fellows Library.
		Bring your Salinas Public Library card to the reference desk, sign in, and exchange your card for the key to use these files.
	www.salinas.lib.ca.us /body_local_history.html (400 words)

	Salinas Valley Psychiatric Program: Treatment Programs
		The Salinas Valley Psychiatric Program (SVPP) Intermediate Inpatient Treatment Program is committed to the pursuit of quality in providing assessment and treatment services to the mentally ill inmates in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).
		The program is a 64-bed inpatient service within the SVPP operates at the Intermediate Care Facility (ICF) level of care.
		Inmate-patients are admitted from Salinas Valley State Prison (SVSP) crisis beds, and through the Mental Health Services Delivery System (MHDS) institutions throughout California.
	www.dmh.cahwnet.gov /Statehospitals/Salinas/Treatment.asp (727 words)

	Salinas Valley Cowboy Church
		The vision and purpose for these two churches in the Salinas Valley was birthed out of a desire to have more of the same kind of Cowboy Church that Salinas proudly presents to the community during the Salinas Rodeo.
		Like the Salinas Rodeo Cowboy Church, we wanted to hold our meetings in a place where the cowboy and the country folk would feel comfortable and at home in; an environment where they could fit in and belong.
		A non-formal place where they could feel relaxed coming dressed just as they are, dirty jeans, hat and with country stuff on their boots.
	www.cchm.org /church.htm (451 words)

	Salinas Valley Itinerary
		Less than a quarter mile past the Laguna Seca gates, on the right, is Laureles Grade — a scenic road that connects Highway 68 to Carmel Valley, reaching an elevation of 1284 feet for views of both the Salinas Valley and the ocean.
		This road forms part of the signposted Salinas Valley Wine Country route: look for white painted finger posts directing drivers to eight or ten wineries from here to Greenfield, 30 miles to the south.
		Among the nearest to Mission Soledad are Hahn/Smith & Hook Winery (at 37700 Foothill Road) and Paraiso Vineyards/Cobblestone (at 38060 Paraiso Springs Road).
	www.montereyinfo.org /?p=salinas_valley_itinerary (952 words)

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