AirTouch Donates Money to Ronald McDonald House of Spokane, Wash.SPOKANE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 30, 1999-- AirTouch Cellular has donated $5,000 to the Spokane Ronald McDonald House as part of its community relations program That command function that evaluates public attitudes, identifies the mission of a military organization with the public interest, and executes a program of action to earn public understanding and acceptance. known as AirTouch Connections. The money will be used to build a family health and resource room that will accommodate a couch, two computers with access to the Internet and a television and VCR VCR: see videocassette recorder. VCR in full videocassette recorder Electromechanical device that records, stores on a videotape cassette, and plays back on a TV set recorded images and sound. . Families can use the computers and information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. to research and better understand their childrens' illnesses. In addition, children staying at the House can use the computers to communicate and develop friendships with other children facing similar diseases. "AirTouch is committed to supporting charitable efforts in our local communities, especially when it involves helping children," said Joe Dodson, vice president for AirTouch in Oregon and Washington. "We want to do what we can to make lives easier and more tolerable for those who are dealing with illnesses and our continued support of the Ronald McDonald House is a great way to do that." AirTouch Connections is designed to support community organizations where AirTouch customers and employees live and do business. The program provides support in the form of charitable donations and sponsorships, in-kind donations, loaned phones and auction donations in the Western Region states served by AirTouch Cellular. AirTouch serves more than 8 million U.S. cellular U.S. Cellular (NYSE: USM) is a super-regional cellular telephone provider, serving 5.8 million customers in 189 markets in 26 U.S. states. The company was created in 1983 as a subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. Since April 2000, John E. customers and operates in 22 of the top 30 U.S. markets, including Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , San Diego, Atlanta, Detroit, Cleveland, San Jose, Sacramento, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Seattle, Portland (Oregon), Denver, Phoenix, and Minneapolis. |
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