`JAILBIRDS' MDA GETS LOCK ON CHARITY FRIENDS BAIL OUT FAVORITE INMATES.Byline: Amy Raisin Staff Writer WESTLAKE VILLAGE - Local residents, politicians and business owners were put behind bars Verb 1. put behind bars - lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life" gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, remand, put away Wednesday - cuffed, photographed and ordered to make bail for charity. For the second year, the Muscular Dystrophy Association The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) is an organization founded in 1950 which combats muscular dystrophy and diseases of the nervous system and muscular system in general by funding research, providing medical and community services, and educating health professionals set up a jail at the Westlake Village Inn and detained law-abiding citizens who raised bail and donated it to the fight against muscular dystrophy. ``I'm calling up my friends, teachers, people from the soccer community and my husband,'' said Elaine Davis, preschool director at California Lutheran University Mission statement The University's mission statement is as follows: "California Lutheran University is a diverse, scholarly community dedicated to excellence in the liberal arts and professional studies. , as she tried to secure her freedom. Each ``jailbird'' who participated in the fund-raiser was fitted with a striped shirt, cuffed by the honorary sheriff, put into a cage of black bars and photographed before being handed one of the cellular phones loaned by AT&T to make bail calls. The sheriff for the event, 70-year-old George Cochrane, a retired Ventura County sheriff's sergeant, wore a huge comedy badge while he fitted each inmate in a jail shirt and big plastic handcuffs hand·cuff n. A restraining device consisting of a pair of strong, connected hoops that can be tightened and locked about the wrists and used on one or both arms of a prisoner in custody; a manacle. Often used in the plural. tr.v. . ``I'm the jailer and the bailer, the hooker and the booker,'' Cochrane said as he detained the dozens of volunteers. ``It's something good for the community, and it gives me a chance to keep busy.'' Last year Westlake Village volunteers raised about $25,000 at the lockup See hang and abend. , one of many throughout the nation to benefit the MDA (1) (Monochrome Display Adapter) The first IBM PC monochrome video display standard for text. Due to its lack of graphics, MDA cards were often replaced with Hercules cards, which provided both text and graphics. See PC display modes and Hercules Graphics. . Thousand Oaks City Council candidate Ed Masry, the attorney recently portrayed by Albert Finney in the movie ``Erin Brockovich,'' sat at a back table dialing numbers, ultimately raising $1,900 bail from various friends. ``My wife has been on the board of directors of the MDA, and we've been involved in it for approximately five to 10 years,'' Masry said. ``It's wonderful because the money goes where it's supposed to go.'' Lisa Flores Flores, town, Guatemala Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the , regional public affairs director for the MDA, smiled as she scanned the room of volunteers. ````We don't keep them here all day. We eventually set them free,'' she said, adding that those who raise $1,500 or more each will have their pictures featured on Jerry Lewis' annual MDA telethon tel·e·thon n. A lengthy television program to raise funds for a charity. [tele- + (mara)thon. . CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- 2 -- color) Banker Robyn Daniels, in foreground above, is among those phoning for ``bail'' money Wednesday to get out of a mock lockup in Westlake Village. Above, Playing frontier sheriff, George Cochrane puts a jail shirt on Keith Parks, commander of a real sheriff's station. (3 -- color) Another volunteer gets handcuffed during the fund-raiser for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Joe Binoya/Special to the Daily News |
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