COMMUNITY DEEDS WORKERS AT MALL MAKE AN IMPACT.Byline: - Daily News LANCASTER - Fifteen Antelope Valley Mall The Antelope Valley Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Palmdale, California. Opened in September, 1990, its buildings take up around 1 million square feet (90,000 m²). Its physical main building, parking lots, and ring road businesses encompass an area a bit less than 0. administrative employees gardened, made repairs and did other tasks Friday at 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 Domestic Violence Shelter as a contribution to their annual Community Day. The event is part of mall owner Forest City Enterprises' second annual Employees Community Day nationwide. The shelter houses domestic-violence victims - both men and women and their children. The Cleveland-based real estate development company gives its employees an opportunity to spend a workday volunteering with local service organizations. More than 1,000 Forest City associates in 30 cities nationwide had been expected to work last week with local nonprofit groups and agencies. ``Our first Community Day event was such a success that we knew right away it would become an annual event,'' said Charles A. Ratner, president and chief executive officer of Forest City Enterprises. Organizations where the volunteers worked include a Salvation Army Salvation Army, Protestant denomination and international nonsectarian Christian organization for evangelical and philanthropic work. Organization and Beliefs The Salvation Army has established branches in 100 countries throughout the world. drop-in center for teenagers in 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. , a senior-citizen nutrition program in Rancho Cucamonga Rancho Cucamonga (răn`chō k  'kəmäng`gə), city (1990 pop. 101,409), San Bernardino co., S Calif. , a charity thrift store in Kentucky, a
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Facts and FiguresArea, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. animal shelter. CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1) Jenny Garibay of United Way, center, and Diana Fiore, right, marketing director of the A.V. Mall, clear weeds Friday. (2) Scott Cummings, assistant general manager at the A.V. Mall, left, and mall maintenance worker Wayne Adams garden at the Antelope Valley Domestic Violence Shelter. (3) Torrie Malone, wife of the mall's general manager, helps clean up Friday at the A.V. Domestic Violence Shelter. (4) Darrell Weaver, operations manager at the Antelope Valley Mall, trims trees Friday at the violence shelter. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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