SANTA WILL BROADCAST 24 HOURS FOR TOYS.Byline: JOANNE CRAWFORD Education Children's Center of 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 Executive Director Esther Gillies will join XTRA XTRA Extra XTRA X-band Thin Radar Aperture (US DoD) XTRA Xml Transaction Architecture Sports 610 Sports Director Dan Sebastian atop a 30-foot-high ``scissor-lift,'' elevated platform to kick off a toy drive marathon. Sebastian, dressed as ``Santa Dan,'' will broadcast live for 24 hours Adv. 1. for 24 hours - without stopping; "she worked around the clock" around the clock, round the clock for KIIS-FM (97.7) and 610 AM from Avenue M and 10th Street West, starting at 10 a.m. today. ``They are going to do a toy drive challenge,'' said Ingrid Chapman, director of resource development for the Children's Center. ``They are going to challenge Palmdale vs. Lancaster . . . We have a lot of kids this year, and so we have a great need.'' Toys can be dropped off at the radio broadcast van, which will be parked at a Mobil service station at Avenue M and 10th Street West until 10 a.m. Wednesday. A pressing need at the center is gifts for older children, through the teen years, Chapman said. ``There is always a need there,'' she said. ``We so much appreciate the community helping us with this, because without that, we just couldn't do it. I think it really makes a difference between a Christmas or no Christmas for so many of these kids. It's just marvelous, the support that comes out.'' Holiday Buick-Oldsmobile is providing a van to store the toys. Other sponsors include the Whole Wheatery, Network I, Crazy Otto's, Ohara's Cantina can·ti·na n. Southwestern U.S. A bar that serves liquor. [Spanish, canteen, from Italian, wine cellar.] , All Glass and Plastic, K-Swiss Outlet, California Connection and Sierra Toyota/Lancaster Mitsubishi. The Children's Center is a private, nonprofit agency that helps victims of child abuse. ``The Child Sexual Abuse Child sexual abuse is an umbrella term describing criminal and civil offenses in which an adult engages in sexual activity with a minor or exploits a minor for the purpose of sexual gratification. Treatment Program is an outpatient therapy treatment program designed for children who have been sexually abused,'' Chapman said. ``Services include home-based family preservation Family preservation was the movement to help keep children at home with their families rather than in foster homes or institutions. This movement was a reaction to the earlier policy of Family Breakup, which pulled children out of unfit homes. , outpatient psychotherapy psychotherapy, treatment of mental and emotional disorders using psychological methods. Psychotherapy, thus, does not include physiological interventions, such as drug therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, although it may be used in combination with such methods. . . . school-based child abuse prevention programs and professional and community training and education programs.'' Children are usually referred to the center through social workers, parents, relative caretakers or foster parents, Chapman said. The center can always use monetary donations and volunteers, she said. Volunteers help with fund-raising events, distribute information on preventing child abuse, play with children at the center, provide emotional support to victims during interviews and court hearings, and maintain a ``toy closet'' from which presents are distributed to children on their birthdays and other special occasions. Volunteers also help in the office and mentor pregnant teenagers. Potential volunteers must attend an orientation meeting, submit a written application and submit fingerprints Impressions or reproductions of the distinctive pattern of lines and grooves on the skin of human fingertips. Fingerprints are reproduced by pressing a person's fingertips into ink and then onto a piece of paper. for a criminal records check, Chapman said. For information on volunteering, call Pam Goertz at (661) 949- 1206. |
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