CAR DEALERS, ACTORS HOLD BOOK DRIVE.Byline: Holly Andres Daily News Staff Writer The Greater 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. New Car Association and the Screen Actors Guild Foundation have joined forces for a ``Drive for Literacy,'' a book campaign to benefit elementary schools elementary school: see school. in Los Angeles County. The book donation program, which started Oct. 29, will end Friday at locations in more than 70 car dealerships This article is about car dealerships. For the indie pop band, see Dealership (band). A car dealership or vehicle local distribution is a business that sells new cars and/or used cars at the retail level, based on a dealership contract with an automaker or countywide coun·ty·wide adv. & adj. Throughout a whole county: found at locations countywide; a countywide search. Adj. 1. . New books appropriate for grades kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be through six are being collected at dealerships and will be donated to school libraries before the end of the year. Hardcover books or paperbacks in any genre are accepted for the drive. The initial idea for the drive came from Fred Miller Fred Miller may refer to:
adj. Having existed or persisted for a long time: a longtime friend; a longtime resident of Detroit. longtime Adjective owner of the Miller Automotive Group based in Van Nuys. ``An old friend, a former teacher at Telfair Elementary School, got me involved in funding and becoming a major sponsor of a book drive at her school. It was such a gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. experience for me that I got my granddaughter's school in Calabasas involved,'' Miller said. ``I felt there was a need to do this in the community and I presented the idea to the board of the dealers association. This is just the start of our involvement with literacy and I know it will be even more successful next year,'' added Miller. Bert Boeckmann, owner of Galpin Motors in North Hills, is another enthusiastic supporter in the book drive. ``We're committed to the idea of getting kids to enjoy reading. The board thought it was a great idea for us to get involved in and our dealership would absolutely participate again,'' said Boeckmann. The schools benefiting from this program will be chosen by the Performing Artists for Literacy in Schools program run by the Screen Actors Guild Foundation. ``A letter was sent out to the members of our organization and 72 dealerships agreed to sign up,'' said Charlie Gill, manager of the Greater Los Angeles New Car Dealer Association. ``We won't know how successful it was yet but the program had a strong appeal with the dealers and they liked the idea of a link between their stores and local schools.'' CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Bert Boeckmann, owner of Galpin Motors in North Hills, holds some of the books that have filtered in for the ``Drive for Literacy'' book campaign to benefit elementary schools in Los Angeles County. The program is sponsored by the Greater Los Angeles New Car Association and the Screen Actors Guild Foundation. John McCoy/Daily News |
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