SPORTS COMPLEX SCORES WITH FOOD-FOR-PLAY OFFER.Byline: Teresa Jimenez Daily News Staff Writer A free game of basketball or racquetball racquetball, sport played indoors by two or four players, combining elements of court handball and such racket games as squash racquets. It is played on a standard handball court 40 ft (12.2 m) long, 20 ft (6. was only part of the reason Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, Sports Complex visitors have dropped off canned goods as they enter to play. Though children can play basketball for free in the new gym, which opened Dec. 7, they still contributed to the city's food drive, even bringing a couple extra items to make up for past visits, said Shirley Greenwell, a city recreation leader who works at the facility. And adult visitors have chosen to save the price of admission to play at the gym by bringing everything from nuts to pasta sauce as part of the city's food drive. ``If they forget, they bring more the next time,'' Greenwell said. On Tuesday, the decorated, 4-foot-high collection box was overflowing with goods, so much so that a city employee came by to pick up the items and deliver them to the Santa Clarita Food Pantry. ``We just got flooded,'' said Tymeri Cuervo, city recreation coordinator. ``We told people you can play (free) if you bring canned food canned food food sterilized by heat in a closed, durable container such as tin and aluminum cans, flexible aluminum foil and thermoplastic containers including squeeze tubes. Technically, the processes used are highly efficient and used universally. and we got inundated in·un·date tr.v. in·un·dat·ed, in·un·dat·ing, in·un·dates 1. To cover with water, especially floodwaters. 2. , which is great.'' Now that the box is empty, the city hopes more visitors will fill it up by the end of the month, when the free admission offer ends. The gym, at 26407 Golden Valley Road, has been filled with children over the past few days because of winter break. The complex has two basketball courts, but additional lower hoops are set up so that younger children can play. The land, behind Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box , was purchased by the city more than a year ago from the Merle merle a pattern of coat color pigmentation with dark, irregular blotches on a lighter background. Seen in some Collies and Welsh corgis. In shorthaired dogs, e.g. Great Danes and Dachshunds, the similar pattern is called dapple. Norman cosmetics company. There are three warehouses on the site, and one has been converted into the new gym. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO (Color) Chris Gray, right, of Santa Clarita helps city workers Dave Christianson and Tymeri Cuervo load donated canned goods. David Crane/Daily News |
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