Lawndale Tribune AND lAwNDAle News The Weekly Newspaper of Lawndale Herald Publications - Inglewood, Hawthorne, Lawndale, El Segundo, Torrance & Manhattan Beach Community Newspapers Since 1911 - Circulation 30,000 - Readership 60,000 (310) 322-1830 - November 26, 2015 Competition for the Love of Baking Elementary students participated in the LG “For the Love of Baking” bake-off, held November 14th at Pacific Sales Kitchen in Torrance. Winners received $5,000 for the school of their choice, and LG also donated $5,000 to the charity No Kid Hungry. Photograph by Carlos Delgado/AP Images for LG Electronics. Angel Tree® Lighting Ceremony Set for Monday, November 30 By Nancy Peters gifts were requested so that these “angels” can The city of Lawndale is ringing in the deliver them to the underprivileged children. holiday season with the annual Angel Tree® Other programs adopted Angel Tree® and Lighting Ceremony on Monday, November 30 continue the tradition under their auspices. at 4 p.m. The tree is the center of attention One program, identified with the festivities in the Civic Center Plaza on Burin Avenue of the holiday season and recognized at 147th Street in front of City Hall. around the world by the Red Kettles, is The The Angel Tree® is a tradition dating back to 1975 when the Business & Professional Women’s Club in West Knoxville, Tennessee, created the program as a community service project. The project started out with 70 underprivileged children receiving gifts during the holidays. The initial Angel Tree® organized event lasted only seven years. However, the program received enough publicity to spread across Tennessee, and eventually to other communities in the southern United States. Salvation Army. This charitable organization In 1982, the project was adopted by The is synonymous with providing clothing and Boys and Girls Clubs of Knoxville and the toys via the Angel Tree® program, a high program continued under that organization. profile effort. With a volunteer Board of Directors and an Money collected in the Red Kettles aids Executive Director running Angel Tree® by in providing the requested gifts on the Angel 1994 it garnered a 501©(3) not-for-profit Tree®. Many of the ways to request desired corporation status. toys, games, and other gifts are written on For 41 years the Angel Tree® is a project for greeting cards featuring angels or with an many cities across the nation. Angel Tree®s angel motif. Other means of gift requests are are installed and decorated in shopping malls, simply written on ornaments with an angel churches, and as a city’s way of incorporating painted on the globe or on angel-shaped paper, the concept into civic groups, civic centers, tied with a red or white ribbon to attach to city hall plazas, and community centers. the branches of the Angel Tree®. In the first Underprivileged children can anticipate the year of the involvement of The Salvation promises of the holidays when Angel Tree® Army, in Lynchburg, Virginia, where the arrives in their community. program was introduced in 1979, more than Children can request a gift of their choosing 700 underprivileged children received gifts. by writing on an angel that is hung on a As the Angel Tree® program spread across traditional holiday tree. The “angels” are the South, the first corporate sponsor was chosen by families who then shop for the The Grand Ole Opry. The involvement of requested toys, games, clothing, electronics, the country music iconic recital venue led or whatever else is written on each angel. The to national publicity via the CNN weekday gifts are then returned to the place where the interview program of personality Larry King. After the story aired on his show, the Angel Tree® program went “national” and became a tradition in thousands of cities and small towns. An additional Angel Tree® program involved the 2.7 million American children who have a parent incarcerated in prisons across the country. The prison program is a churchbased one that reaches out to the children and families of inmates and provides the opportunity for gift requests during each holiday season. Through the Angel Tree® Prison Fellowship program, churches adopt an “angel” from the Angel Tree® program ensuring that the inmates’ children do not miss out on gifts during the holiday season. Through the Angel Tree® program families who need assistance due to medical issues, unemployment, homelessness, or other circumstances that leave their lives in difficulty, can participate and write an “angel” request through a local church, a corporate office program, in a shopping mall, or, as in Lawndale, through the Community Development Department. Beginning at 2 p.m., there will be street closures on West 147th Street from Hawthorne Boulevard to Burin Avenue and on Burin Avenue from Del Oro Avenue to south of the City Hall parking lot. Streets will be accessible again at 9 p.m. The festivities will begin in Lawndale Civic Center Plaza at 4 p.m. and are scheduled to conclude at 8 p.m. Activities include a snow sled run, trackless train rides, food vendors, photo opportunities with Disney characters, stage performances, special interest booths, a live DJ, and the arrival of Santa Claus at 6 p.m. Children can then visit with Santa and put their gift requests on the Angel Tree®. • Inside This Issue Certified & Licensed Professionals.......................6 Classifieds............................3 Community Briefs...............7 Food.......................................8 Legals................................ 6-7 Pets........................................5 Police Reports.....................3 Sports....................................4 Seniors..................................4 Weekend Forecast Friday Partly Cloudy 63˚/46˚ Saturday Sunny 63˚/48˚ Sunday Sunny 63˚/46˚ The “angels” are chosen by families who then shop for the requested toys, games, clothing, electronics, or whatever else is written on each angel.
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