DOZENS PITCH IN, CLEAN UP ANNUAL UNITED WAY EVENT HELPS NONPROFIT AGENCIES.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer LANCASTER - Dozens of 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 residents turned out Saturday morning to pitch in for the United Way's 12th annual Day of Caring, with volunteers offering their help at local nonprofit organizations Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. . Volunteers from 18 businesses and several individuals gathered at the Grace Resource Center/Homeless Solutions Access Center in Lancaster before leaving to help with painting, cleaning, installing fence slats and other repair work at two nonprofit organizations. ``It feels good to give back to your community,'' said Mary Simms of Lancaster. ``These people do such good work, we need to get together and help them when we can. We get out in the sunshine and do something positive with our time instead of always being concerned about our own crazy lives.'' Volunteers gathered at the center at 8 a.m. and received their assignments and a thank-you from United Way of Greater 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. Antelope Valley regional director Diane Grooms. Teams were sent to the Assistance League in Lancaster, where volunteers painted, cleaned up trash and debris debris /de·bris/ (de-bre´) fragments of devitalized tissue or foreign matter. In dentistry, soft foreign material loosely attached to a tooth surface. , and worked to improve the appearance of the center. A second team was sent to the Antelope Valley Children's Bureau The Children's Bureau may refer to:
tr.v. sur·round·ed, sur·round·ing, sur·rounds 1. To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle. 2. To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication. n. the play area behind the center. The United Way hosts the Day of Caring event each year, and each year volunteers turn out in droves to offer their assistance. ``I think it's great that all these people decided to give up a Saturday morning of their normal routine to help,'' Simms said. ``It's something everyone should do every now and then. It's just one morning a year.'' By noon, their work had been done, but several volunteers were already talking about helping out next year. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) United Way Day of Caring volunteers put slats in the playground Playground - A visual language for children, developed for Apple's Vivarium Project. OOPSLA 89 or 90? fence at the Antelope Valley Children's Bureau. (2 -- color) Day of Caring volunteers Blanca Carrillo, left, and Joanne Arnston work on a playhouse at the Assistance League. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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