{"id":21150,"date":"2012-09-13T15:39:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T22:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.57.196.122\/~gdatwofo\/theavtimes\/?p=21150"},"modified":"2012-09-13T16:56:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T23:56:58","slug":"ready-set-go-green-a-race-for-the-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2012\/09\/13\/ready-set-go-green-a-race-for-the-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready, Set, Go Green! A race for the check"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The city of Palmdale\u2019s Trish Jones (right) raced Waste Management\u2019s Julianne Haress (left) Thursday morning for a good cause. The women competed on Dusty’s Mineshaft Racer at DryTown, while “Eye Of Tiger” played over the speakers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jones won the race by a slim margin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PALMDALE \u2013 The city of Palmdale\u2019s Trish Jones bested Waste Management\u2019s Julianne Haress Thursday morning in a 40-foot downhill dash to the finish line on Dusty\u2019s Mineshaft Racer at DryTown.<\/p>\n

Both women took a serious drenching\u2026 for a good cause.<\/p>\n

The race was the culmination of the city of Palmdale\u2019s \u201cReady, Set, Go Green!\u201d recycling fundraiser.<\/p>\n

The event, now in its fourth year, is a joint effort by the city of Palmdale, the Palmdale Youth Council, DryTown, and Waste Management (WM) to promote awareness of the importance of recycling, while raising funds for the South Antelope Valley Emergency Services (SAVES).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt encourages the residents to recycle, reduce and reuse, but I think more importantly, it encourages the kids to give back to their community, thus creating a sense of community pride that they\u00a0 may not have had before,\u201d said Haress.<\/p>\n

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Palmdale Youth Council member Jane Murcia spoke at a press conference Thursday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As part of “Ready, Set, Go Green!”, the Palmdale Youth Council held a recycling event on Aug. 4, which called for participants to bring recyclable cans and plastic bottles to DryTown.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe raised about $105, which is the highest we\u2019ve ever raised in a single day,\u201d said Palmdale Youth Council member Jane Murcia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe money that was raised through this event went directly into SAVES\u2019 day-to-day operations, and with that, we were able to purchase food that was directly then given to families who come to SAVES in need,\u201d said SAVES Coordinator Patricia Morales.<\/p>\n

Proceeds raised from the recycling event at DryTown were to be matched by Waste Management in order to double the donation to SAVES.<\/p>\n

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Waste Management donated a $250 check to SAVES as part of the “Ready, Set, Go Green!” event.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But at a press conference Thursday, Waste Management sweetened the pot.<\/p>\n

\u201cWaste Management will donate $250, which is more than twice the amount, if someone can beat me down the Dusty Racer slide,\u201d said Haress.<\/p>\n

Jones took on the challenge and earned a $250 check for SAVES.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis just triples our ability to help people here in the Antelope Valley,\u201d Jones said after the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis event is exciting because it validates one of the very important success measures that Palmdale encourages, and that is partnership\u2026\u201d said Palmdale Council Member Tom Lackey. \u201cThis is a good example of the strong support and the good things that our youth are able and capable of doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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PALMDALE \u2013 The city of Palmdale\u2019s Trish Jones bested Waste Management\u2019s Julianne Haress Thursday morning in a 40-foot downhill dash to the finish line on Dusty\u2019s Mineshaft Racer at DryTown. Both women took a serious drenching\u2026 for a good cause. The race was the culmination of the city of Palmdale\u2019s \u201cReady, Set, Go Green!\u201d recycling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}