KIDS TAKE ON CHARITY PROJECT TO HELP THOSE HOSPITALIZED ERIN: YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE GROWN UP TO HELP OUT OTHERS.Byline: Peggy Hager Staff Writer LITTLEROCK - Baby-sitting, pet-sitting, cleaning houses and motorcycles, recycling cans and bottles and doing yard work by six youngsters will make Christmas a little brighter for young hospital patients. Three pairs of siblings siblings npl (formal) → frères et sœurs mpl (de mêmes parents) in a club called Give To Others - founded by a Littlerock teen inspired by the help her older brother got in battling cancer - earned $1,242.17 to purchase toys for patients at Childrens Hospital 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. . ``When I was little, I always wanted to help somebody out, somebody anywhere. I never knew how but when I got older I started remembering how many times my brother was in the hospital because he had cancer,'' said Erin Temperley, 15, who founded the GTO GTO Gran Turismo Omologato (Ferrari & Pontiac models) GTO Go To GTO Guanajuato (México) GTO Great Teacher Onizuka (Japanese series) GTO Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit club at age 11. ``I was kind of like, wow, Childrens Hospital did a lot for our family when I was there, so why don't I give back by donating toys to help them with families who are going through the same thing I went through when my brother was little? They deserve to have me help them out.'' Erin and brother Joel, 17, who has been in remission Extinguishment or release of a debt. A remission is conventional when it comes about through an express grant to the debtor by a creditor. It is tacit when the creditor makes a voluntary surrender of the original title to the debtor under private signature constituting the from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma non-Hodg·kin's lymphoma n. Any of various malignant lymphomas characterized by the absence of Reed-Sternberg cells. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma for eight years; neighbors Jacob, 15, and Lucas Haines, 12; and Erin's friend Allie Nelson, 13, and her sister, Kaylah, 11, used their earnings to purchase 362 gifts for the hospitalized youngsters. Each of the kids donate half of their earnings - meticulously recorded by Erin - to the club. A friend donated 63 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 . Erin's and Joel's mother Beverly paid the sales tax sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. on their last $80 in purchases. ``We got toys from infants all the way to teenagers,. They got handheld games for teenagers and clothes for babies,'' said Allie. ``If we liked it, then usually they would like it,'' said Erin. ``It also had to be something they could do while they were in bed because most of them are going through chemo che·mo n. Chemotherapy or a chemotherapeutic treatment. or some kind of deadly disease.'' Shopping for presents before Thanksgiving, the youngsters loaded up five shopping carts in one Big Lots store alone. ``It was really fun, we had so much fun,'' Erin said. ``It was tiring, but we had people giving us all these looks like what are you guys doing.'' The club started in 2001. The first two years, they raised money to buy toys for an 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 children's charity she and neighbors Jacob and Lucas picked out of the telephone book. ``They were outside playing basketball and I told them what I wanted to do. ... I said you know what, do you guys want to help out a charity? So we went to their house, picked out a phone book and we looked for a charity and we found one. That's where we started,'' Erin said. Erin advises other youngsters that they, too, can help other people. ``If you want to do it, just go out there and get it done with. Don't wait until you're an adult and have money,'' she said. ``I was 11. What money did I have?'' Peggy Hager, (661) 267-5741 peggy.grimm-hager(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Members of the Give To Others club pose with toys they collected for Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. From left, back row, are Jacob Haines, Erin Temperley and Allie Nelson; middle row, Joel Temperley and Lucas Haines; front, Kaylah Nelson. |
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