DOMESTIC SHELTER TO HOLD CARWASH.Byline: Daily News SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, - The financially strapped strapped adj. Informal In financial need: We are strapped for cash right now. strapped Adjective strapped for Slang Domestic Violence Center of Santa Clarita, which counsels and shelters abused women, will hold a carwash Oct. 17 in Valencia to raise money. The state Legislature's delay in approving a budget this year left the local center hurting as it waits several weeks for its state allocations. The center, which needs funding just to make its monthly budget, hopes to sell 400 carwash tickets to raise close to $4,000. Tickets are available by calling the center at (661) 259-8175. Tickets are on sale for $10 for a wash that normally sells for $17.99. The carwash will be held at 6 p.m. at the Valencia AutoSpa, 23440 Valencia Blvd. The carwash will culminate culminate, in astronomy, the maximum height in the sky reached by a celestial body on a given day. At the culminate the body is crossing the observer's celestial meridian and is said to be in upper transit. in a candlelight vigil A candelight vigil is an outdoor assembly of people carrying candles, held after sunset. Such events are typically held either to protest at the suffering of some marginalized group of people, or in memory of lives lost to some disease, disaster, massacre or other tragedy. in observance of Domestic Violence Month. The center was established in 1983. In 1998, there were 553 incidents of domestic violence reported in Santa Clarita, said Kathie Mathis, executive director of the center. That number increased to 731 in 2001. ``The center serves 2,000 women and children a year,'' Mathis said. ``The mission of the Domestic Violence Center is to promote and preserve nonviolent, nonabusive family systems. We serve the community by caring for families.'' The center offers counseling for the abused as well as the abusers and their children. It provides shelter, a 24-hour hotline, court companions and legal assistance services, life skills and behavioral behavioral pertaining to behavior. behavioral disorders see vice. behavioral seizure see psychomotor seizure. counseling, training and education programs, crisis intervention crisis intervention Psychiatry The counseling of a person suffering from a stressful life event–eg, AIDS, cancer, death, divorce, by providing mental and moral support. See Hotline. and advocacy. |
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