HOG: HEART OF GOLD WINNER GIVES HARLEY TO CHARITY.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE - Robertson Palmdale Honda's Thunder on the Lot car and motorcycle show raised more than $100,000 for eight 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 charities that help children. The money was presented by Robertson general manager Ron Emard at a luncheon Thursday to representatives of the charities: The Children's Center, Royal Family Kids Camp, Special Olympics Special Olympics International sports program for people with intellectual disability. It provides year-round training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type summer and winter sports for participants. , MOVE, The Education Foundation, Healthy Homes, Lancaster Kiwanis and The Sherman Group. Joining the charity recipients at the luncheon in the dealership were key volunteers and other major sponsors of the eighth annual show, which drew about 9,000 visitors, 800 motorcycles and more than 150 cars. The show's raffle of a Heritage Softail Harley Davidson motorcycle - at $100 a ticket - also benefited charities. Winner Frank Visco, owner of the Frank Visco and Associates insurance agency in Lancaster, traded the motorcycle for a van with a wheelchair lift that will go to a local nonprofit organization 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. to transport disabled people. ``There's very little transportation available for handicapped people,'' Visco said. Visco said he rode a motorcycle ``many years ago,'' but he bought the raffle ticket as a way to help the fund-raiser rather than in hopes of actually winning the motorcycle. ``I always support Ron and his efforts,'' Visco said. In addition, Michelle Lantz of Visco's firm will donate a motorized mo·tor·ize tr.v. mo·tor·ized, mo·tor·iz·ing, mo·tor·iz·es 1. To equip with a motor. 2. To supply with motor-driven vehicles. 3. To provide with automobiles. wheelchair. The van and wheelchair are being donated in memory of Michael Becker, who recently died of Lou Gehrig's disease Lou Geh·rig's disease n. See amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. . CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Palmdale Robertson Honda general manager Ron Emard stands next to Frank Visco, sitting astride a·stride adv. 1. With a leg on each side: riding astride. 2. With the legs wide apart. prep. 1. On or over and with a leg on each side of. 2. the Harley Davidson he won in the Thunder in the Lot raffle. Charles F. Bostwick/Daily News |
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