BOEING, EMPLOYEE GRANTS BENEFIT 13 OF REGION'S NONPROFIT GROUPS.Byline: Peggy Hager Staff Writer LANCASTER - Thirteen local nonprofit organizations have received more than $52,000 in grants from the Boeing Co. and the Boeing Employees Community Fund. The organizations plan to use the money to improve the quality of life for residents of the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley . The Council for the Blind, for instance, will use its grant to buy equipment that will allow members to more easily perform routine tasks. ``We have programs that permit us to purchase adaptive equipment Adaptive equipment are devices that are used to assist with completing activities of daily living. Bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, and feeding are self-care activities that are including in the spectrum of activities of daily living (ADLs). for the visually impaired. Many of these are on the order of visual enhancement such as a closed-circuit television closed-circuit television Noun a television system used within a limited area such as a building Noun 1. closed-circuit television set that enlarges printed matter,'' said Ben Renshaw, president of the council's Antelope Valley Chapter. ``Without it, you're at the mercy of your neighbor or your friends. This gives us a little independence,'' he said. The Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery plans to create an education program similar to last year's ``Dinosaurs in the Desert'' exhibit that attracted 40,000 visitors. ``This will make it possible for kids to see an exhibit that they don't have to go down to 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. to see,'' curator Norma Gurba said. ``For many of them, this is going to be the only museum they visit.'' The Assistance League will be using its grant for a reading and library program for their kindergarten and preschool students. ``It's a necessary program for these little guys,'' said Joanne Wilson, vice president in charge of preschool administration. Other organizations receiving grants were Santa's Workers of Antelope Valley; Lancaster Shelter, a program of Catholic Charities of Los Angeles Inc.; Boys & Girls Club Girls Club is a 2002 American television series created by David E. Kelley, who was also it's producer and executive producer. Only two out of a total of thirteen episodes created were broadcast on Fox Television in the United States and Global Television in Canada. of Antelope Valley; Antelope Valley Symphony and Master Chorale chorale (kōrăl`, –räl`), any of the traditional hymns of the German Protestant Church. The form was developed after the Reformation to replace the plainsong of the earlier service and as a means of congregational participation in ; Antelope Valley Community Theatre; Catalyst Foundation Catalyst Foundation - non-profit organization supporting orphaned, abandoned and homeless children in Vietnam through scholarship programs and direct relief efforts. It also works with children adopted from Vietnam. ; Learning for Life; Palmdale Community Foundation; The Gift Foundation of Antelope Valley Hospital District; and the Mental Health Association. Last year, company and employee cash, surplus and in-kind contributions from Boeing for California organizations totaled more than $8 million. In addition, more than 6,000 employee volunteers contributed more than 44,000 hours to local community efforts. In the Antelope Valley, the Boeing employees have already contributed $50,000 to nonprofit agencies this year and have raised $5,000 for the Disaster Relief Fund to help victims of the disaster in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Washington, D.C. The Boeing Co. will send matching funds. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Boeing Co. executive Jack Stone, left, hands a grant check to Ben Renshaw, president of the Antelope Valley Council of the Blind, one of 13 beneficiaries of such funding in the area. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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