GROUP BUILDING FUNDS FOR VET HOME.Byline: BETTIE RENCORET Senior columnist LANCASTER - With $59,693 in its amenities fund, the Lancaster Veterans Home citizens committee has reached more than half its $100,000 goal to provide all the extras that will make the place a real home. The committee is raising money to buy televisions, gardening tools, magazines and other items for the state veterans home hoped to be opened by late 2005 on what is now vacant land on Avenue I at 30th Street West. ``I think it's absolutely phenomenal that this small group has been able to raise almost $60,000 based on a piece of raw land in the middle of the desert,'' said Tom Craft, committee chairman. Delayed for more than ten years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time home was included in a memorandum of understanding A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is a legal document describing a bilateral or multilateral agreement between parties. It expresses a convergence of will between the parties, indicating an intended common line of action and may not imply a legal commitment. recently signed by the state and federal departments of veterans affairs Veterans Affairs is a term of the business that deals with the relation between a government and its veteran communities, usually administered by the designated government agency. . The agreement outlines the operation of a proposed new veterans home in West Los Angeles
``We've all worked hard and long and it's paid off,'' said Craft. ``We've made progress. The picture is positive. We know it's coming because no other veterans homes can be built before ours and West Los Angeles is anxious to get theirs done.'' Craft said he has confidence in Tom Johnson Tom Johnson may refer to:
Although the state is in financial crisis, the veterans home construction money will come from Proposition 16, passed by California voters in March 2000. The bond money is separate from the state general fund. Plans for the home were downsized from the original 400 beds to 60 live-ins, plus 50 adult day-care slots. ``It's a foot in the door. As long as we can get the home built, even though it's on a smaller scale at first than what we want, we know it won't take long to fill it up,'' Craft said. ``Expansion plans are already in the works. All we have to do is stay the course.'' The committee's officers were recently installed for the coming year, with all the incumbents retaining their positions. Craft remains as chairman, with Mike Adams as vice chairman, Janice Walker as secretary and Ruth Marr as treasurer. Menus for the week at the senior life nutrition sites in Lancaster and Palmdale have been announced. All meals include bread and margarine and coffee, tea or milk for a suggested donation of $2. Monday: Beef enchilada casserole, Spanish rice, juice, parsleyed carrots, garden salad, tapioca pudding. Tuesday: Sweet and sour sweet and sour adj → agridulce chicken, parsleyed potatoes, Normandy vegetables, cottage cheese cottage cheese a soft, uncured cheese made from soured skim milk; most of the lactose is removed with the whey. Used in low-residue diets for dogs and cats. , orange. Wednesday: Roast pork, bread dressing, stewed stewed adj. 1. Cooked by stewing: stewed prunes. 2. Informal Intoxicated; drunk. stewed Adjective 1. tomatoes, tossed salad, grape juice, oatmeal cookies. Thursday: Hot turkey sandwich, mashed potatoes, green beans, marinated salad, apple pie. Friday: Chili egg puff, chili beans, spinach, creamy coleslaw cole·slaw also cole slaw n. A salad of finely shredded raw cabbage and sometimes shredded carrots, dressed with mayonnaise or a vinaigrette. , tomato juice, pears. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Lancaster Mayor Frank Roberts, right, installs incumbent Lancaster Veterans Home committee officers, from left, Janice Walker, Mike Adams, Tom Craft and Ruth Marr. Bettie Rencoret/Special to the Daily News |
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