NEW SPIN ON HOLIDAYS REALTORS DONATE 250 SHINY BIKES TO TOY DRIVE FOR CHARITY.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer PALMDALE - An annual charity toy drive got a big boost with a donation of 250 bicycles and tricycles from a Realtors' charitable organization This article is about charitable organizations. For other uses of the word charity, see Charity. A charitable organization (also known as a charity) is an organization with charitable purposes only. . Before The Select 25 Real Estate Network's donation Friday, the 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 Transit Authority's Stuff-A-Bus collections had been off this year, possibly because of giving to Hurricane Katrina  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. victims. ``It's been a very good year for us in the real estate industry. That's no secret. We just wanted to give back,'' Select 25 member Greg Galli said. Last year the group donated 100 bicycles. This year members wanted to do something bigger, Galli said. ``There's 25 of us. Ten bikes apiece a·piece adv. To or for each one; each: There is enough bread for everyone to have two slices apiece. [Middle English a pece : a, a; see a . We said that makes sense,'' said Galli, who was wearing a red and white Santa hat as group members loaded bicycles and tricycles from the Palmdale Wal-Mart Supercenter into the decorated dec·o·rate tr.v. dec·o·rat·ed, dec·o·rat·ing, dec·o·rates 1. To furnish, provide, or adorn with something ornamental; embellish. 2. AVTA AVTA Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity bus, a U-Haul van and a Wal-Mart delivery truck. The bicycles and other toys and food collected in the bus campaign will go to nine local charities - including food banks, counseling services and foster-care agencies - to be distributed among needy families. Galli said the Select 25 members decided that the charities know better than they do how to find the best youngsters to get the bicycles. Each bicycle or tricycle will come with a helmet and a children's identification kit. The total cost was more than $9,100, he said. The donations will go to Penny Lane, Antelope Valley Hospital's Healthy Homes, Children's Center of the Antelope Valley, South Antelope Valley Emergency Services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' , United Community Action Network, Walden Family Services, Antelope Valley Boys and Girls boys and girls mercurialisannua. Club, Valley Oasis Domestic Violence Shelter and Grace Resource Center. The bus campaign is in its last weekend collecting donations. The Stuff-A-Bus bus will be parked outside the Lancaster Toys ``R'' Us store at 1335 W. Ave. K from noon to 6 p.m. today and Sunday. Accepted will be new unwrapped toys and nonperishable food. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Amber Stiff, 8, left, her brother Josiah, 6, and sister Audrey, 8, all of Palmdale, browse through bikes given to the Antelope Valley Transit Authority's Stuff-A-Bus collection. (2) Greg Galli of The Select 25 Real Estate Network carries a bike onto the Antelope Valley Transit Authority's Stuff-A-Bus in Palmdale on Friday. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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