FOR EDUCATION FUND EMERGENCY PERSONNEL READY FOR CHARITY GAME.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer LANCASTER - Law enforcement and emergency personnel from 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 will go head to head in this year's Erica Nemback Charity Softball Game. The annual game is designed to increase awareness of the dangers of drunk driving and to raise money for college scholarships for local high school students. The scholarships are presented in the name of Erica Nemback, a Cottonwood Elementary School elementary school: see school. teacher and Quartz Hill High School Quartz Hill High School is a public, co-educational high school located in Lancaster, California. Founded in 1964, it is the third oldest comprehensive high school in the Antelope Valley High School District (AVHSD). graduate. The daughter of a California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. officer, she was killed in 1997 by a drunk driver who had six previous convictions. This year's game will be the first that pits sheriff's personnel and California Highway Patrol officers against a team of firefighters and American Medical Response American Medical Response, Inc. (AMR) is the largest private ambulance provider in the United States. AMR and EmCare are wholly owned subsidiaries of EMSC L.P., an emergency management company held by the investment firm Onex. AMR is based out of Greenwood Village, Colorado. ambulance personnel. The event began in 1998 between sheriff's deputies and CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan officers. The softball game will start at 2 p.m. Aug. 18 at Lancaster Municipal Stadium, 2400 W. Ave. I. The benefit game will be followed by the season's final Lancaster JetHawks The Lancaster JetHawks are a minor league baseball team in Lancaster, California, USA. They are a Class-A Advanced team in the California League, and are a farm team of the Boston Red Sox. home game, which will begin at 5 p.m. The JetHawks' game will include a salute to law enforcement officers, firefighters and other emergency personnel, officials said. The price of the regular JetHawks ticket allows entry into both games and all events. Tickets are $5. Nemback, 27, had been a well-liked fourth-grade teacher and taught Sunday school at her church. Joel Kyne, a 49-year-old carpenter, was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. Kyne had been drinking on and off all day before he ran a stop sign at 60th Street West and Avenue J, his vehicle colliding with Nemback's car as she drove home from a shopping trip with her mother and sister, prosecutors said. Kyne was tested at a blood-alcohol level of .35, or more than four times the legal limit, after the crash, officials said. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Surrounded by emergency personnel, CHP Capt. Brian Smith and CHP Officer Fred Oakes, center, announce the upcoming game. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer (2 -- color) Erica Nemback: Drunk driver's victim |
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