CAN-DO SPIRIT; COMPANIES COLLECT PULL TABS FOR CHARITY.Byline: Staff Writer The tiny pull tabs Pull tab may refer to:
On Thursday, workers at Cardona Manufacturing turned over a box of another 20,000 pull tabs they've been collecting for months to the Burbank Noon Lions Club and the Burbank Emblem Club No. 86. The two clubs have been jointly sponsoring the pull tab recycling project. In nine months, they have collected more than 500,000 or 378 pounds of pull tabs that are recycled to raise money for the 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. Ronald McDonald House. The tabs, which can be detached from common drink cans, are easier to store and have greater value than aluminum cans, said Marva Murphy of 2M Communications and the Noon Lions Club. The two clubs have set up a drop-off collection site at Burbank Public Service Department, the first in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, , Murphy said. Murphy and Emblem Club member Ethel McGee originally collaborated to organize the communitywide collection campaign to collect the drink-can tabs. The tab collection box is located in the lobby of the Public Services Public services is a term usually used to mean services provided by government to its citizens, either directly (through the public sector) or by financing private provision of services. building at 164 W. Magnolia Magnolia, city, United States Magnolia (măgnō`lyə), city (1990 pop. 11,151), seat of Columbia co., SW Ark.; inc. 1855. Its oil industry has been important since 1938. Ave. Companies, schools, businesses, organizations and individuals are encouraged to donate tabs. The Ronald McDonald House allows parents of young cancer patients to stay in low-cost housing on an extended basis while their children are undergoing treatment. It is located across from Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. For information about the pull tab project, call (818) 955-8018. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Louie Cardona, third from left, and Cardona workers turn over tabs to Cookie cookie File or part of a file put on a Web user's hard disk by a Web site. Cookies are used to store registration data, to make it possible to customize information for visitors to a Web site, to target Web advertising, and to keep track of the products a user wishes to Bentiuegna, Elaine Paonessa and Marva Murphy. (2) Cardona pours 20,000 tabs from a box. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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