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Article: LONGTIME RESIDENT A WITNESS TO CHANGE.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- October 29, 2000
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Byline: BETTIE RENCORET Senior columnist
LANCASTER - Vera Marie Errea can hardly believe the changes she has seen during 84 years in the Antelope Valley.
Gone now are most of the sheep ranches, the artesian wells and the jackrabbits.
Instead there are more homes and businesses and encroaching smog.
But it still has wonderful people and beautiful weather, she says, and the friends of those early years are still friends.
Errea, who turned 86 on Oct. 7, was born in Los Angeles. Her parents, Antonio and Bertha Provenzano Zarzana, moved the family to Sacramento and her father died there, a victim of the 1918 flu epidemic.
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