HOLIDAY SPREAD CHEERS NEEDY DINNER IS EATERY TRADITION.Byline: Peggy Hager Staff Writer PALMDALE - Good food and holiday cheer were served Christmas Day to more than 300 less fortunate individuals at Steer N' Stein restaurant. Steer N' Stein employees and their friends and family gave up a portion of their holiday to serve roasted turkey, wheatberry stuffing, whipped potatoes with sage gravy and cranberry cranberry, low creeping evergreen bog plant of the genus Oxycoccus of the family Ericaceae (heath family). Cranberries are considered by some botanists to belong to the blueberry genus Vaccinium. sauce. They also brought gifts and stuffed animals
A stuffed animal is toy animal stuffed with straw, beans, cotton or other similar materials. Some stuffed animals are very old – home made cloth dolls stuffed with straw go back to at least the to hand out to children. ``It's just a really nice way to express the Christmas season to everybody that may not have the opportunity this year, whatever the situation may be,'' said Sarah Loomis, one of the 50 employees who volunteered to help with the meal. This was her second Christmas volunteering to serve the homeless and needy. Loomis described her experience volunteering as fun. ``It was a good giving experience and it teaches you not to take things for granted,'' she said. Like last year, Steer N' Stein provided transportation for people who had no other way to get to the restaurant. Restaurant owners restaurant owner n → dueño/a or propietario/a de un restaurante Jennifer and Brett Nelson paid for an school bus to bring people from Grace Resource Center in Lancaster to the restaurant and then took them back again. The restaurant also prepared care packages for the Valley Oasis Domestic Violence Shelter residents. CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- 3 -- color) Jennifer and Brett Nelson, top, owners of Palmdale's Steer N' Stein restaurant, serve up Christmas dinners to people attending their annual holiday feast. At left, Dennis Johnson Persondata NAME Dennis Wayne Johnson ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dennis Johnson SHORT DESCRIPTION NBA basketball player DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1954 PLACE OF BIRTH Compton, California DATE OF DEATH February 22, 2007 PLACE OF DEATH Austin, Texas Dennis Wayne Johnson , on left, and Don Thomas dig into Verb 1. dig into - examine physically with or as if with a probe; "probe an anthill" poke into, probe penetrate, perforate - pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance; "The bullet penetrated her chest" the turkey dinner and fixings. Above, Santa Claus Santa Claus: see Nicholas, Saint. Santa Claus jolly, gift-giving figure who visits children on Christmas Eve. [Christian Tradition: NCE, 1937] See : Christmas Santa Claus distributes Christmas gifts to the Allen sisters, from left, Valerie, 7, Kimberly, 9, and Destiny, 6, of Lancaster. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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