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Try East Valley’s health food

By: Shelley Rizzotti full o' life

While the West Valley has Follow Your Heart as its prime health food store and cafe, the East Valley has Full O’ Life. Located on the corner of Magnolia Boulevard and Buena Vista, Full O’ Life offers a health food store with a vast selection of organic foods, produce and vitamins, as well as a restaurant known for serving hand prepared food using the freshest natural ingredients. What immediately comes to mind as my favorites are the beet salad and the Shepard’s pie!

The restaurant portion of the store has table seating as well as a neat bar with swivel stools reminiscent of the ’50′s. It is open during the week and on Sunday for lunch. The specials change daily and it is critical to always leave some room for their fresh homemade deserts.

The store portion is open all day. The peculiar thing about Full O’ Life is that it is closed on Saturday’s which is generally one of the busiest days of the week for stores. For a menu and operating hours, visit www.fullolife.com. This is must visit place.

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Toluca Lake, the real story.

By: Shelley Rizzotti

Unless you are one of the fortunate few to live on the border of the lake or lucky enough to view it from the banks of Lakeside Golf Club, you would never know the lake in Toluca Lake really exists.

Toluca Lake, contained within the cities of Los Angeles and Burbank was established almost a decade ago by Hollywood investors and developers.

Two scenic and peaceful lakes, one on the Los Angeles side and the other on the Burbank side, are surrounded by Lakeside Golf Club and beautiful estates. Owned by the homes which border it, the Toluca Lake Property Owners Association, a non-profit corporation, assists with maintaining and keeping the lake clean.

Originally, the springs from the outcropping of the Valley’s water table supplied the lake with water. At present, wells from the lake’s edges supply water and the entire bottom of the lake is surfaced with concrete to stop the water from seeping.

The lake covers approximately 6 acres and varies in depth from 18 inches to 10 feet. Supplied with fish and used as a recreation site for boating and swimming, the lake is a hidden oasis which really does exist!