THIS KID DONATES SHIRTS OFF HIS BACK.Byline: DENNIS McCARTHY Dennis McCarthy may refer to:
Odds and ends from around the Valley: It was around noon a few Saturdays ago when the kid selling T-shirts in a sporting goods Noun 1. sporting goods - sports equipment sold as a commodity commodity, trade good, good - articles of commerce sports equipment - equipment needed to participate in a particular sport store parking lot knew he had shot low. It wouldn't be $50,000 Danny Abboud would be raising for the American Red Cross American Red Cross: see Red Cross. National Disaster Relief Fund - it would be closer to $60,000. ``To be exact, it was $60,339 he gave us after selling T-shirts on two Saturdays,'' said Terry Bankston, special events coordinator for the San Gabriel Valley The San Gabriel Valley is one of the principal valleys of southern California. It lies to the east of the city of Los Angeles, to the north of the Puente Hills, to the south of the San Gabriel Mountains, and to the west of the Inland Empire. Chapter of the American Red Cross. ``We were all stunned around here because no one else came close to that amount. It was incredible.'' Yeah, it was, maybe the most incredible story to come out of the Valley since Sept. 11 of one person stepping up to the plate to help raise funds for the disaster relief efforts back East. Daniel Abboud, 27, the son of a Lebanese-born father and a 10th- generation Minnesota mother, put his own Tujunga printing business on hold for two weeks to print up ``God Bless America'' T-shirts that sell like hotcakes. And every dime he made went to the Red Cross. The Sept. 18 column I wrote on Abboud's efforts inspired dozens of people, like Barbara Cesar and Mike Rabadi of Van Nuys, to personally get behind his efforts. Rabadi, who is also of Middle Eastern ancestry, donated hundreds of T-shirts for Abboud to print up, then he and his two sons helped sell them. ``I had more than a hundred people call or stop by to thank me and see if there was anything they could do,'' said Abboud, who owns Superior Signs, a Tujunga print shop. ``The whole thing was very inspiring and pretty incredible.'' Yeah, it was. Claire Ellis of Stoneridge Escrow Co. in Westlake Village also thought a letter she got a few weeks ago was pretty incredible. It seems her Department of Motor Vehicles In the United States of America, Department of Motor Vehicles (or DMV) is a commonly used name of the government agency of a U.S. state which administers the registration of automobiles (e.g., by issuing license plates), and/or the licensing of drivers (e.g. car license renewal was mistakenly stuck in an envelope with another family's renewal notice. Instead of sending Claire her car renewal bill, this is what she received in the mail from the other family. ``Please accept my gift to you as I have sent the DMV DMV abbr. Department of Motor Vehicles the $162 due for your renewal. Accept this as a simple gift from my family to you. ``The value of family and friends was put in perspective by the recent events. I realize that this letter may seem out of the ordinary, but please accept it for what it is - a simple act of kindness.'' Mike Mahoney Mike Mahoney (born December 5, 1972 in Des Moines, Iowa), is a Major League baseball catcher, formerly with the St. Louis Cardinals. He made his Major League debut on September 8, 2000 with the Chicago Cubs, and after two seasons in Chicago, he was released and eventually signed , Claire's boss, thought it was a hoax, so he called the DMV. ``The check had already cleared,'' he said Thursday, talking for Claire who was on vacation. ``Her renewal was paid in full, but we still don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. by whom. ``It took Claire a couple of days to read the letter without crying,'' he said. ``She's an Iraqi by birth, who is Jewish, and immigrated to Iran before coming to this country when she was 7. ``What that family did was classy and touched all of us in the office very deeply,'' Mahoney said. And, finally, if you think the only important ballgame worth watching this weekend will be the L.A. Dodgers pitching around Barry Bonds Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24 1964 in Riverside, California) is a left fielder for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball. He is the son of former major league All-Star Bobby Bonds, the godson of Hall of Famer Willie Mays, and a distant cousin of Hall of Famer Reggie of the San Francisco Giants The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California that currently play in the National League West Division. New York Giants history Early days and the John McGraw era , think again. Another historic L.A./S.F. ballgame is taking place Saturday at 10 a.m. over at the softball diamonds at Hjelte Park, on Burbank Boulevard between Woodley and Hayvenhurst avenues in Encino. Eighteen employees of the San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden Bureau of Engineering are en route by bus today to avenge a 5-4 loss their team suffered at the hands of the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Bureau of Engineering the last time they played. That would be 1929. These guys hold a grudge for a long time. One of the brain trusts behind the rematch is Vitaly Troyan, the current Los Angeles City Engineer, who used to work as the assistant director of Public Works public works pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. in San Francisco. ``When I left, they gave me an old trophy that said a baseball game had been played in 1929 between the two bureaus of engineers, so when I came to L.A., I looked it up in the files,'' Troyan said Thursday. ``It was a big deal back then. All the papers covered it, and the mayor of Los Angeles, John C. Porter, threw out the first ball.'' Troyan called his Bay Area counterpart, Harlan Kelly Jr., and asked him if his team wanted a rematch. Kelly said let's do it. Troyan tried to get current Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn to throw out the first ball, but the mayor had one of those scheduling conflicts. Piloting the L.A. team is Ceferino Munoz, who lists his managerial qualifications as his kid's former Little League and PONY League manager. The local nine warmed up last week with a big loss to the City Attorney's Office. ``I was just fine-tuning the team a little,'' Munoz said Thursday. ``Nothing to worry about. ``We'll beat those bums by the bay Saturday, count on it.'' The Hjelte Park ticket office said plenty of good seats are still available. The price is right. Free. |
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