{"id":26441,"date":"2012-12-08T22:57:38","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T06:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.57.196.122\/~gdatwofo\/theavtimes\/?p=26441"},"modified":"2022-07-15T14:10:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T21:10:17","slug":"caring-for-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2012\/12\/08\/caring-for-the-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Caring for the Community"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Six-year-old King Bland was one of several children who got a brand new bike from Santa during UAV’s 6th Annual Caring for the Community event. New bicycles were given away every 10 minutes during the event.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LANCASTER \u2013 Hundreds of residents flocked to University of Antelope Valley Saturday morning (Dec. 8) for a healthy helping of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans, cranberries, fresh salad, yams, and dinner rolls, with a little pumpkin or apple pie for desert.<\/p>\n

The free holiday dinner with all the trimmings was part of UAV\u2019s 6th Annual Caring for the Community event.<\/p>\n

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Several families attended the event, which fed more than 1,000 people.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re sharing our blessings for the season and giving to those in our own community that might be in some kind of need,\u201d said UAV CEO Sandra Johnson<\/strong>. \u201cOur students and our chefs cooked a very nice turkey with all the fancy trimmings and deserts from scratch, and we just opened it up to the entire community for free.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s event also featured Santa Claus, with plenty of toys for all the good boys and girls.<\/p>\n

The toys came courtesy of Together In Faith and Family (TIFF), an organization founded by Miss Lancaster Tiffany Johnson.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I do is I ask the youth in our community to come together and donate clothes and toys to the children in need in this town\u2026\u201d Tiffany Johnson<\/strong> said. \u201cTo let people know you are loved, you have toys here, and we\u2019re here for you as a family and as a community.\u201d<\/p>\n

TIFF was able to gather more than 1,300 new toys and raise more than $5,000 for Saturday\u2019s event alone, Tiffany Johnson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thank God for everything he\u2019s given to me, so now it\u2019s time for me to give back,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s time for me to say \u2018you guys deserve a smile on your face for Christmas.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Every 10 minutes at the event, one lucky child walked away with a new bicycle. The bicycles were donated by Walmart through a joint effort by the AV Sheriff\u2019s Booster Club and TIFF.<\/p>\n

Laura Johnson attended the Caring for the Community event with her daughter and grand kids.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s awesome that they care enough to give back, because a lot of people are less fortunate,\u201d Laura Johnson said. \u201cA lot of people wouldn\u2019t have anything at all if they didn\u2019t have this today.\u201d<\/p>\n

View more sights for UAV\u2019s 6th Annual Caring for the Community below.<\/p>\n

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Laura Johnson attended the event with her daughter and grand kids. “I ate a little bit of everything. I think it’s wonderful what they’re doing,” she said.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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UAV students served the meal and appeared to be having a great time while doing so.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dozens of residents lined up to get their picture with Santa and to receive a free gift.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Santa was able to gave each child a toy, thanks to Together In Faith and Family (TIFF).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Even Princess the puppy got a gift from Santa courtesy of TIFF.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LANCASTER \u2013 Hundreds of residents flocked to University of Antelope Valley Saturday morning (Dec. 8) for a healthy helping of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans, cranberries, fresh salad, yams, and dinner rolls, with a little pumpkin or apple pie for desert. The free holiday dinner with all the trimmings was part of UAV\u2019s 6th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26441"}],"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=26441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109441,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26441\/revisions\/109441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}