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PINS FOR JOBS; BOWLING TOURNAMENT AIDS CHARITY.


Byline: Daily News

Donors joined the mentally disabled mentally disabled See Cognitively impaired.  Sunday Sunday: see Sabbath; week.  in bowling to raise money to buy new vans for a program that puts the disabled into the work force.

The goal was to raise $12,000 toward replacing Pleasantview Industries Inc.'s aging vans, used in the nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive.

Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law.
 organization's task of training the developmentally disabled and finding them jobs.

Pleasantview's two vans are more than 15 years old, and maintenance is costly. The Saugus-based agency uses the vans to deliver completed products to customers, transport job materials and take clients to and from work.

Sponsors each paid $15 to $500 for the bowlathon, and some of the disabled joined in the fun.

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 in Valencia gets some bowling tips from Colbert Williams at a community fund-raiser Sunday.

(2) Billy Kontis aims at the pins at Valencia Lanes in a fund-raiser for nonprofit Pleasantview Industries.

John Lazar/Daily News
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Mar 1, 1999
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