COMPUTERS, VEHICLES DONATED ROTARY GIFTS GOING TO ENSENADA.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer PALMDALE - Two surplus city trucks and a van replaced by less-polluting vehicles are going to Mexico in a charity arrangement worked out by Rotary clubs in Palmdale and Ensenada. The 1983 Mazda pickup truck, 1989 Dodge van Dodge Van may refer to:
``There's a tremendous need down there. It takes a little perseverance Perseverance See also Determination. Ainsworth redid dictionary manuscript burnt in fire. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Handbook, 752] Call of the Wild, The dogs trail steadfastly through Alaska’s tundra. [Am. Lit. to get through the paperwork,'' said John Joyce John Stanislaus Joyce (July 4, 1849-December 29, 1931) was the father of writer James Joyce, and a well known Dublin man about town. The son of James and Ellen (née , Palmdale Rotary Club's international chairman. Palmdale retired the vehicles because they were replaced by three full-size Chevrolet vans
The vehicles originally were expected to go to the Mexican town of Poncitlan, Palmdale's sister city, but that arrangement didn't work out. Under the terms 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 Air Pollution Control District grant by which the city purchased the new vans, the vehicles they replaced can't be operated in California. ``They had to get them out of the state,'' said Palmdale Rotary Club treasurer Chuck Medicus said. The Ensenada Rotary Club will turn the vehicles over to a church school, Purisimo Corazon de Maria School, which is in a hilltop neighborhood overlooking Ensenada's port. The school will either use the vehicles itself or raffle them off, Joyce said. The computers, which were older models that Lancaster Community Hospital no longer needed, will be used to equip a computer center in the school, Joyce said. ``It's a destitute des·ti·tute adj. 1. Utterly lacking; devoid: Young recruits destitute of any experience. 2. Lacking resources or the means of subsistence; completely impoverished. See Synonyms at poor. , poor area. It's not down by the waterfront where the tourists go,'' he said. Mexican law requires anyone bringing a vehicle into the country to pay a fee of $600, Rotary Club members said. Ensenada Rotary President Elsa Cortes is negotiating with Mexican government officials to have the fee waived for the three donated vehicles. The three vehicles, loaded with the hospital computers, will be driven to Mexico as soon as the Ensenada Rotarians get the import fee worked out, Joyce said. Charles F. Bostwick, (661) 267-5742 chuck.bostwick(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2 -- color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour AV edition only) Looking over the three vehicles bound for Mexico are, from left, Palmdale city fleet manager David Reader, international chairman of the Palmdale Rotary Club John Joyce, Palmdale Mayor Jim Ledford and Rotary Club treasurer Chuck Medicus, above. Below, they keys are ready to go as soon as Mexican officials give the OK. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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