CHRISTMAS SPIRIT STILL BLOWING IN APRIL WIND.Byline: DENNIS McCARTHY Dennis McCarthy may refer to:
BURBANK - There's a wonderful story behind the large canvas sign, ``Pancake pancake, thin, flat cake, made of batter and baked on a griddle or fried in a pan. Pancakes, probably the oldest form of bread, are known in different forms throughout the world. Breakfast - All You Can Eat - $3,'' flapping A condition in which a route in a network becomes unavailable and available over and over again. See route dampening. in the wind below the Ralphs supermarket marquee at the corner of Victory Boulevard Victory Boulevard is a major thoroughfare on Staten Island, measuring approximately 8.0 miles (12.87 km) and stretching from the west shore community of Travis to the upper east shore communities of St. George and Tompkinsville. and Buena Vista Street this week. It's a story of how a lot of good, decent people who didn't previously know each other came together over a 24-hour period to form a daisy chain Connected in series, one after the other. Transmitted signals go to the first device, then to the second and so on.  A SCSI Daisy Chain Both internal and external SCSI devices are daisy chained together. of help for a young woman and her children who had fallen on hard times. The pancake breakfast, to benefit the Burbank Temporary Aid Center, will be from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. this Saturday in the Ralphs parking lot at Victory Boulevard and Buena Vista Street. But you have to go back to the Christmas season and the parking lot of the Burbank Kmart on San Fernando Road San Fernando Road is a major street in the city and county of Los Angeles. It starts off in Castaic as The Old Road, passing through Santa Clarita and the Newhall Pass, where upon its intersection with Sierra Highway near the junction of the Golden State (I-5) and the to get to the heart of this story. It was a little before midnight, and, for a part-time cashier's safety, one of the store managers walked her to her car after work. ``When he got to the car he noticed there were kids asleep inside,'' said Arley Burgos, a supervisor in the cashier CASHIER. An officer of a moneyed institution, who is entitled by virtue of his office to take care of the cash or money of such institution. 2. The cashier of a bank is usually entrusted with all the funds of the bank, its notes, bills, and other choses in department at Kmart. ``She was too embarrassed to tell any of us, but she had lost her apartment after a so-called friend skipped out with more than three months' rent money. ``She had been living in her car for four weeks with her five kids,'' Burgos said. ``During the day, the kids went to school, then did their homework on a park bench near the store. At night, they all slept cramped cramped adj. 1. Uncomfortably small or restricted: cramped living quarters. 2. Difficult to read, especially for being crowded into a small space: cramped handwriting. up in that car.'' The Kmart employees took up a collection, but Burgos knew it was going to take a lot more than a couple of bucks apiece a·piece adv. To or for each one; each: There is enough bread for everyone to have two slices apiece. [Middle English a pece : a, a; see a from a few dozen people to help the woman and her kids out of this jam. Burgos reached out to Joe Cranston, the main link in this daisy chain. Cranston is a member of Reel Cowboys cowboys, in American history. 1 Tory marauders, adherents to the British cause in the American Revolution, who fought in the contested area of Westchester co., N.Y. , a group of old movie cowboys who raise money for shelters for victims of domestic violence. Kmart is one of the bigger local stores that donate clothes and other goods to the shelters for women and children, and now Burgos was calling in a marker to help one of her own part-time cashiers. ``We never have a lot of cash on hand, but we came up with a few hundred dollars for her, and then I called Dave Fortune at the West Glendale Gateway Kiwanis Club to see if they could help, too,'' Cranston said, forming another link in the chain. Fortune went to his Kiwanis meeting that night and told the other members the story about the homeless mother and her kids. ``I told them we had a real need here, an emergency,'' Fortune said. ``This family was facing a bleak Christmas and New Year unless we helped, and we did.'' The West Glendale Gateway club was joined by the Burbank Kiwanis Club - another link. Within just a few hours, more than $600 was raised for the family. Some members of the Burbank Kiwanis Club told Cranston he should stop by the Burbank Temporary Aid Center to learn what help was available there. For the first time, Joe met Pat Smola, director of the center, and the strongest link in the daisy chain was about to be formed. With money already raised, the homeless woman and her kids were put up in a few, warm motel rooms for a week while Smola helped them find housing, which turned out to be in La Habra La Habra (lə hăb`rə), city (1990 pop. 51,266), Orange co., S Calif.; inc. 1925. A suburb of Los Angeles, La Habra was settled in the 1860s by Basque sheepherders. , that they could afford with assistance from federal Section 8 vouchers. ``She stopped by the store (Kmart) with her kids last month to thank us all again and tell us she was working and doing great,'' Burgos said Monday. This could be the end of the story, but it isn't. Cranston and the Reel Cowboys couldn't get the good work of Smola and her center out of their minds. The daisy chain of help was already formed. Why take it apart when there were other people who needed help? Which brings us full circle to that pancake breakfast canvas sign, flapping in the wind, that the Burbank Fire Department helped the Reel Cowboys put up last Thursday at Ralphs supermarket, which also supports the domestic violence shelters. Kiwanis Club members will be flipping the flapjacks. The Reel Cowboys will provide the entertainment - singing and square dancing. The money raised will go to Pat Smola and her volunteers toward what they do best: help people out of jams. It was not yet noon Monday, and she had already paid two gas bills and three other utility bills, put two families up in a motel until Friday, and bought a Greyhound greyhound, breed of tall, swift, sight hound developed nearly 5,000 years ago in Egypt. It stands about 26 in. (66 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs about 65 lb (29.5 kg). bus ticket for a broke young woman to go home to Pennslyvania after a promised job never panned out here. ``That doesn't include the 60 homeless people who have already stopped by for a shower and a hot lunch,'' Smola said. That's where the $3 for all the pancakes you can eat will be going. |
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