{"id":26299,"date":"2012-12-06T18:25:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T02:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.57.196.122\/~gdatwofo\/theavtimes\/?p=26299"},"modified":"2013-04-09T21:48:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T04:48:07","slug":"put-a-smile-on-a-childs-face-this-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2012\/12\/06\/put-a-smile-on-a-childs-face-this-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Put a smile on a child\u2019s face this Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(L to R) California Highway Patrol officer Gil Hernandez, Junior Miss Antelope Valley Tori Gonzales and Captain Steve Urrea are inviting the community to support the annual CHiPs for Kids toy drive this year. The group was at Sam\u2019s Club in Palmdale Thursday morning to promote the effort.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PALMDALE \u2013 The California Highway Patrol is counting on Valley residents to help make Christmas special for underprivileged children.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re asking for your generosity,\u201d said CHP Officer Gilberto Hernandez<\/strong>. \u201cIt will put a smile on a child\u2019s face this holiday.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hernandez, CHP Captain Steve Urrea<\/strong>, and Junior Miss Antelope Valley Tori Gonzales<\/strong> were at Sam\u2019s Club in Palmdale Thursday morning encouraging residents to take part in the annual CHiPS for Kids Toy Drive.<\/p>\n

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The CHiPS for Kids Toy Drive needs your help more than ever this year, because requests for toys have more than doubled.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now in its 25th year, CHiPS for Kids is an annual effort by the California Highway Patrol to collect toys from the community and distribute them to underprivileged children for Christmas.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor some of these kids, this may be the only Christmas toys that they get this year,\u201d said Urrea.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust to put a smile on their face and give them hope for the New Year will be a great thing to do,\u201d said Gonzales.<\/p>\n

Donating to CHiPS for Kids is especially important this year, because requests for toys have more than doubled, Urrea said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year we had six organizations request toys from us, this year we\u2019ve had 14,\u201d Urrea said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to try to reach out to as many organizations as we can to provide them with as many toys as we can, but we\u2019re only as successful as the people in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Supporting CHiPS for Kids is easy. Just bring a new, unwrapped toy to any CHP station or drop-off site by December 23, 2012.<\/p>\n

Drop-off sites in the Antelope Valley include:<\/p>\n

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  • Crazy Otto\u2019s (The restaurant is offering a free giant pancake to any customer who donates an unwrapped toy)<\/li>\n
  • Camacho Auto Sales<\/li>\n
  • Walgreens<\/li>\n
  • The Antelope Valley Mall<\/li>\n
  • Sam\u2019s Club<\/li>\n
  • Walmart<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    On Sunday, December 16, from 4 to 9 p.m., CHP Officers will be at the Walmarts on Valley Central Way in Lancaster and on 10th<\/sup> Street West in Palmdale in support of the CHiPS for Kids Toy Drive.<\/p>\n

    \u201cWe\u2019re gonna try and fill up a school bus with toys,\u201d said Hernandez, adding that the school bus will be at the Palmdale Walmart.<\/p>\n

    \u201cIf you\u2019re doing any shopping out in the Antelope Valley, either in the Walmart in Lancaster or the Palmdale\u2019s Sam\u2019s Club or Walmart, feel free to stop by and drop anything off for the kids that are not going to be able to have a present,\u201d said Walmart Store Manager Trent Blankensip. \u201cWe appreciate your help this holiday.\u201d<\/p>\n

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    PALMDALE \u2013 The California Highway Patrol is counting on Valley residents to help make Christmas special for underprivileged children. \u201cWe\u2019re asking for your generosity,\u201d said CHP Officer Gilberto Hernandez. \u201cIt will put a smile on a child\u2019s face this holiday.\u201d Hernandez, CHP Captain Steve Urrea, and Junior Miss Antelope Valley Tori Gonzales were at Sam\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26300,"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":[10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26299"}],"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=26299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}