COP THROWING PARTY FOR 2,000 KIDS.Byline: DENNIS McCARTHY Dennis McCarthy may refer to:
``I want to spoil spoil v. spoiled or spoilt , spoil·ing, spoils v.tr. 1. a. To impair the value or quality of. b. To damage irreparably; ruin. 2. kids who never get spoiled.'' - LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Officer Mike Scott It's 6:30 a.m. Thursday, and Mike Scott's 12-hour shift is finally over. The Devonshire Division patrol officer is tired and fighting a cold, but he's not going home. He's going back to work at his other job. Spoiling spoil v. spoiled or spoilt , spoil·ing, spoils v.tr. 1. a. To impair the value or quality of. b. To damage irreparably; ruin. 2. local kids who never get spoiled. He's the new breed of cop, says his boss, Val Paniccia, operations commander for the LAPD's Valley Bureau. The kind of cop, Paniccia says, who knows the city's never going to arrest its way out of gang violence. ``Mike knows you have to get involved with these kids at an early age to make things better, and that's what he does,'' Paniccia said. ``He's got a real kind heart, and these kids can see it.'' This Saturday, that kind heart and a lot of his friends on the police force and in the community will be hosting a party and toy giveaway for more than 2,000 disadvantaged kids at 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. Police Academy in Elysian Park Elysian Park can mean:
Many of these kids come from tough, gang-riddled neighborhoods where children don't get spoiled much with parties and toys. ``One of the greatest tragedies is the senselessness sense·less adj. 1. Lacking sense or meaning; meaningless. 2. Deficient in sense; foolish or stupid. 3. Insensate; unconscious. of kids being shot because of the verbiage verbiage - When the context involves a software or hardware system, this refers to documentation. This term borrows the connotations of mainstream "verbiage" to suggest that the documentation is of marginal utility and that the motives behind its production have little to do with 'where you from?''' said Bobby Arias, president of Communities in Schools, a nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. group that provides prevention, intervention and job development for kids at risk of gang activity. ``Saturday represents bringing together kids from all over this city and showing them that where they are from is the planet Earth, and who they are is the human race, not a gang,'' Arias said. ``Mike Scott personifies that feeling and gives real meaning to the positive impact of the beat cop,'' he said. ``He didn't have to do any of this for these kids. He wanted to.'' The calls starting coming into council offices about six months ago. There was this patrol officer out of the Devonshire Division in Northridge - an Officer Scott - asking them to send him disadvantaged kids living in their districts. He wanted to throw them a party. The officer was a member of the LAPD Centurions baseball team, and they had some money and a lot of toys left over from some charitable community events they had been involved in this year. The toys were in Scott's garage, and his wife was bugging him to get them out of there before his own kids started digging into them. They already had enough toys, the cop said. He was looking to spoil some kids who didn't. ``I didn't want only the needy kids, but also the kids living on streets where they don't have the opportunity to get out of those gang areas,'' Scott said. ``I wanted to invite them out for the day.'' So, that's what he's doing this Saturday. Inviting 2,000 kids out for the day. ``Mike has this wonderful need to provide happiness for kids,'' said the Centurions team manager, Lt. Tim Moss. Santa Claus Santa Claus: see Nicholas, Saint. Santa Claus jolly, gift-giving figure who visits children on Christmas Eve. [Christian Tradition: NCE, 1937] See : Christmas Santa Claus wearing a badge. You don't need an invitation to come to this party, Mike says. If you know some kids who need some spoiling, bring them on by. The only request is that they be accompanied by a parent or a guardian to receive a toy. And if you know some spoiled kids who may need a reality check, bring them on by, too, because they're invited. He has only one request, says this Santa Claus wearing a badge. Have them bring a new toy for someone else. The party will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Los Angeles Police Academy, 1880 N. Academy Drive. Dennis McCarthy, (818) 713-3749 dennis.mccarthy(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Officer Mike Scott gets some help from kids in donating holiday toys for other children. Tatiana Avedikian, 4, holds a stuffed toy stuffed toy stuff n → Stofftier nt . Others are, from left, Evan Sloan, 9; Aaron Scott, 9; and Adriana Scott, 10. Charlotte Schmid-Maybach/Staff Photographer |
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