GRANTS GO TO AREA GROUPS.Byline: Patricia Farrell Aidem Daily News Staff Writer Children of 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, will benefit from a series of United Way grants announced this week, with much of the money going toward technology to help organizations run programs for youths. The biggest local grant - $4,500 - goes to the Santa Clarita Child and Family Center to develop drug abuse treatment services for local youths and to buy computer equipment to help run the programs. The Foundation for Children's Dental Health, which provides free dental checkups and treatments for underprivileged Santa Clarita children, will receive $2,700. The foundation works with a network of dentists and dental students to examine youngsters who come from low-income, uninsured households, and they perform work as needed as needed prn. See prn order. . Again the money will be used to acquire basic technology to improve the efficiency of the organization. ``They're a wonderful group,'' said Todd Rosin, a spokesman for the 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. . Overall, the chapter distributed more than $200,000 in Community Response Funds to 35 charities in Los Angeles County. Those grants are designed to meet emerging community needs in innovative ways. United Way gave $2,800 to the Girl Scouts' Chaparral Resource Center in the Valencia Industrial Center. Gail Davis Gail Davis (born October 5, 1925; died March 15, 1997) was an American actress. The daughter of a small town medical doctor, she was born Betty Jeanne Grayson in a hospital at Little Rock, Arkansas. , service area executive for Girl Scout operations in Santa Clarita, said the money will buy a photocopier photocopier Device for producing copies of text or graphic material by the use of light, heat, chemicals, or electrostatic charge. Most modern copiers use a method called xerography. for her office and a color printer A printer that prints in color using three (CMY) or four (CMYK) colors of ink, toner or dye. Four color ribbons have been used in dot matrix printers, but these are rare today. See color laser printer and printer. . ``When I moved into this office, there was nothing there but a little desk in the corner,'' Davis said. ``Every time I went to a meeting of the Joshua Tree Council in Bakersfield - that's our council - I'd get a flier I had to copy for every one.'' |
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