RESIDENTS CAN PLAY ROLE IN FIRE RELIEF.

Byline: Daily News

LANCASTER - When the San Bernardino Valley College football team finishes its game Saturday with Antelope Valley College, AVC staffers hope to send the players home with a van full of clothing and supplies for fire victims.

AVC physical education staffers Jerry Lewis, Jackie Lott and others are collecting donations to help fire victims, who include San Bernardino Valley College workers.

A cargo van will be parked in the college's Marauder Stadium parking lot today from 8 to 11 a.m. and from 1 to 4 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. to receive donations. People who bring donations Saturday will get in free to the football game, which will start at 1 p.m.

Items sought include:

--Nonperishable food such as canned goods, peanut butter, instant soups and pop-top snacks.

--Hygiene products including shaving cream, eye wash, bar soap, shampoo and feminine hygiene supplies.

--New blankets, sleeping bags, pillows and sheets.

--New underclothing.

--New or nearly new jackets.

--New flashlights and batteries.

--Baby formula and diapers.

Used clothing and used shoes will not be accepted, college officials said.

After Saturday's game, Lewis and Lott plan to follow the San Bernardino team home with the donated supplies.

For more information, call Newton Chelette, director of athletics, at [phone].

Other Antelope Valley drives are collecting donations for fire victims.

Those drives include:

--Lancaster Baptist Church is collecting nonperishable food and bottled water. Donations should be brought today to the church at 4020 E. Lancaster Blvd. The items will be delivered Saturday to fire victims. For more information, call [phone].

--The Palmdale Pageant Association in conjunction with Texas Cattle Company restaurants is collecting canned foods, blankets, personal hygiene products and toys.

Donations can be dropped off Monday through Thursday at the restaurants, which are inside the Antelope Valley Mall in Palmdale and on 10th Street West at Avenue J-4 in Lancaster, as well as at Valley Child Guidance Clinics at 310 E. Palmdale Blvd. and 1669 W. Ave. J.

Texas Cattle Company restaurants will donate to wildfire charities 20 percent of purchases between Monday and Thursday.

--The American Red Cross Antelope Valley Chapter is accepting monetary contributions. Contributions to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund can be sent to the local office, 2715 E. Ave. P, Palmdale. The office is not collecting individual donations of clothing or food. For information, call [phone].