STARS GALA SET AS BENEFIT LEONA VALLEY HISTORY TO GAIN.Byline: Daily News LEONA VALLEY -- The second annual Gala Under the Stars wine-tasting event will raise money for Leona Heritage Park. The fundraiser will feature wine from the Leona Valley Winery win·er·y n. pl. win·er·ies An establishment at which wine is made. Noun 1. winery - distillery where wine is made wine maker and 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 Winery, plus food and live music. The event will run 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday at the Leona Valley Community Center, 8367 Elizabeth Lake Road. Tickets are $15 a person or $25 a couple. Leona Valley Heritage Park is to consist of the 91-year-old Leona Valley schoolhouse plus a building to store and display objects from the community's history. The park is a joint effort by the Leona Valley Town Council, the Leona Valley Improvement Association, the Leona Valley Sertoma Club and the West Antelope Valley Historical Society. The organizations formed the Leona Valley Heritage Park Committee to develop a plan for protecting and preserving the history and the many historical artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. of the Leona Valley and the surrounding mountain areas. The park will be on the northwest corner of the Improvement Association's property, adjoining the community's 4-H Memorial Park and overlooking Leona Valley. The schoolhouse, built in 1915 at Bouquet bouquet a structure resembling a cluster of flowers. Canyon and Elizabeth Lake roads, was moved to the association's property in 1989 to preserve it from destruction. The lathe-and-plaster one-room building was placed on a foundation but has not been restored and is not open to the public. It's missing a bell tower and a cloakroom cloak·room n. 1. A room where coats and other articles may be left temporarily, as in a theater or school. Also called coatroom. 2. A private lounge adjacent to a legislative chamber. that were removed after the building ceased functioning as a school and was moved to nearby Ritter rit·ter n. pl. ritter A knight. [German, from Middle High German riter, from Middle Dutch ridder, from r Ranch in 1939. In storage are circa-1900 wooden vats, grape presses and winery equipment from the Belvino Winery, started by pioneer settlers John and Anna Marie Ritter after they came to the Antelope Valley in the 1890s. |
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