MAN TAKES IT UPON HIMSELF TO HELP FEED THE VALLEY'S HUNGRY.Byline: TRACY VALERI Herb Willis of Culver City Culver City, city (1990 pop. 38,793), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1917. It is a center of the U.S. motion-picture industry, whose roots in the city date to c.1915. Its chief manufactures are rubber products and computers. instills humanitarian ideals in his grandchildren with action, not talk. The 83-year-old man volunteers his time by feeding the hungry in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . ``I'd like to do some good without getting involved with groups that have their own agenda,'' Willis explained. ``I just want to help people who are hungry.'' Three days a week, Willis picks up hundreds of day-old bagels and several loaves of bread from various locations and delivers the food to the Jewish Home for the Aging in Reseda. Two food distribution centers, SOVA SOVA Soft-Output Viterbi Algorithm SOVA Southern Virginia Kosher Food Pantry in Tarzana and the Interdenominational in·ter·de·nom·i·na·tion·al adj. Of or involving different religious denominations. interdenominational Adjective among or involving more than one denomination of the Christian Church Adj. Pantry run by First Christian Church First Christian Church can refer to:
As a volunteer representative from the Encino branch of B'nai B'rith B'nai B'rith (bənā` brĭth) [Heb.,= Sons of the Covenant], oldest and largest Jewish service organization in the world, founded (1843) in New York by American Jews "to provide service to their own people and to humanity at large. , a fraternal organization that directs his activities, Willis pays his own expenses. Willis says he wants his four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren to learn from him. The former free-lance assistant director and production manager and World War II veteran sometimes brings Kayla, his 4-year-old great-granddaughter, with him on deliveries. Michael Turner, spokesman for the Jewish Home for the Aging, sees the smiles on the faces of the residents. ``It's wonderful when a community-supported home like ours gets support from people like Herb,'' Turner said. ``It makes the residents feel good that they are cared for and loved.'' With the sobering U.S. Department of Justice statistics that 1.5 million children are abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point every year in the nation, the services of Missing Children Investigation Center Inc. are a much-needed resource. The Burbank-based 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. has the primary goal of locating and recovering missing and abducted children, locally and internationally. MCIC MCIC Macedonian Cultural and Information Centre (UK) MCIC Missing Children Investigation Center MCIC Managed Care Information Center MCIC Manitoba Crop Insurance Corporation MCIC Macedonian Center for International Cooperation works with other missing persons organizations, law enforcement and the media in order to reunite children with their legal parents and guardians. The people working with anguished parents and families to recover missing children work on a completely volunteer basis. MCIC, which consists of people working from their homes or in the field, is always in need of volunteers - from case managers to investigators - and training is provided. For help with recovering a missing child, to volunteer or to make a donation to help support MCIC, call (818) 382-1999. Los Angeles Councilwoman Jackie Goldberg will address the ninth annual Interfaith Labor Day Celebration on Sept. 1. The gathering is sponsored by the San Fernando Valley Interfaith Council and the Valley Labor Political Education Council. ``Work, Welfare and Wages: Establishing a New Value for Labor'' will be the keynote speech. A complementary family barbecue will begin at 5:30 p.m. followed by an interfaith service at 7 p.m. The event will be at Temple Judea, 5429 Lindley Ave., Tarzana. For information, call the Interfaith Council at (818) 718-6460 Ext. 3007. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Herb Willis and great-granddaughter Kayla Willis donate bagels to the Jewish Home for the Aging in Reseda, putting them in Martha Goldberg's care. Hans Gutknecht/Daily News |
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