TOY DRIVE SUCCESS SOARS LOCKHEED MARTIN EMPLOYEES GIVE.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer PALMDALE - Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. employees donated thousands of toys for needy 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 children and food for poor families in a 17- year-old annual Christmas drive. The donated food and toys haven't been counted, but the food filled 22 55-gallon barrels and the toys were enough to fill up a plant loading dock - with presents that included video games See video game console. , bicycles and televisions. ``Out of 4,200 employees at the site, I'd guess 80 to 85 percent participate, whether it's food or toys,'' Lockheed Martin spokeswoman Dianne Knippel said. The toys will go children recommended by 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. County Department of Children's Services and Children's Bureau The Children's Bureau may refer to:
Employees bought toys for about 800 children whose names and Christmas wishes were hung on artificial Christmas trees around the plant, and donated enough toys for about 800 more. Food will go to Grace Resource Center in Lancaster and to the 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, Food Pantry, since many workers live in Santa Clarita. Also donated by the employees were 150 handmade ``security'' blankets to be given out to youngsters at Grace Resource Center. The quality of the presents the employees donate amazed organizer Terry Kleintop. ``Sometimes people get together and they buy something really nice like an Xbox or a bicycle,'' said Kleintop, who's on the engineering planning staff See: central planning team. in the Advanced Development Projects. The drive started in one building at Lockheed's Burbank plant 17 years ago, said Kleintop. The drive gradually spread around the plant, then came to Palmdale after Kleintop transferred to Palmdale in 1994. Food and toys are also collected at Lockheed credit union offices in Woodland Hills, Santa Clarita and Westlake Village. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Steve Baker, executive director of Grace Resource Center, lifts a donated bicycle in a sea of toys donated by Lockheed Martin employees in Palmdale. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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