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TIP A FIREFIGHTER SPECIAL OLYMPICS BENEFITS.


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PALMDALE -- 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.  County firefighters will help raise money for 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
 Special Olympics Special Olympics

International sports program for people with intellectual disability. It provides year-round training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type summer and winter sports for participants.
 by waiting on tables at lunch and dinner Wednesday at Greenhouse Cafe restaurants in Lancaster and Palmdale.

The money firefighters collect from diners during the eighth annual Tip a Firefighter Day go to the local Special Olympics program, which provides athletic training athletic training Sports medicine The practice of physical conditioning and reconditioning of athletes and prevention of injuries incurred by athletes. See Athlete, Athletic trainer.  and competition year-round in 10 sports as well as social events for mentally handicapped youth and adults.

Firefighters will be collecting tips from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the Greenhouse Cafe restaurants at the Antelope Valley Mall The Antelope Valley Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Palmdale, California.

Opened in September, 1990, its buildings take up around 1 million square feet (90,000 m²). Its physical main building, parking lots, and ring road businesses encompass an area a bit less than 0.
, 1233 W. Rancho Vista Blvd., Palmdale, and at 1169 Commerce Center Drive in the Target shopping center in Lancaster.

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Antelope Valley Special Olympics Area Director Dennis Wick and Greenhouse Cafe employee Melissa Seeger discuss Tip a Firefighter Day, planned for Nov. 15 to benefit the Antelope Valley Special Olympics.

Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer
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Date:Nov 12, 2006
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