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- ADVERTISEMENT - Gift exchange! FOLBA board president Lauren Campbell hands a plaque thanking Timmons Subaru to Natalie Tiimmons, human resources manager for the dealership as Rocky Ghahary holds the check in readiness. FOLBA’s mascot chews the scenery, which beats chewing the interior of an SUV. Photo by Kate Karp. Subaru of America’s Share the Love events are designed to pay it forward to local and national communities. Over the past 13 years, the dealership has given more than $200 to national charitable organizations such as Meals on Wheels America and the National Parks Foundation and to local ones. Timmons Share the Love efforts have included distribution of personal protective equipment to local small businesses, providing toys for children at MemorialCare Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach, and giving funds to local charities. In the space of two months November through December 2020 the recent Share the Love event collected enough money to make the rid ....
The 2020 Word of the Year contenders were more numerous than candidates on the first California gubernatorial ballot in 2006. They spanned sometimes intersecting categories that included politics, technology, Zoom, social movements and, of course, the COVID-19 virus: “dumpster fire,” “Blursday,” “the Rona” and her sisters “Miss Rona” and “Aunt Rona,” “you’re muted,” “kraken.” - ADVERTISEMENT - Dictionary lookups and frequency of use rather than creativity power the choice of Word of the Year, and so, a couple of comparatively ordinary choices won the honor. Merriam Webster and Dictionary.com selected “pandemic,” and the Oxford English Dictionary, gobsmacked by the unprecedented cats-and-dogs rain of new words and sudden popularity of common ones, picked “unprecedented.” You can download the report at the link if you regularly attend to couching your words as well as attending to vacuuming the couch after the beagle’s jumped off. ....
- ADVERTISEMENT - Many people have learned firsthand some for the first time about the abilities that pets have to heal and comfort their humans. Animal rescuer Markelle Pineda knows full well that many animals need healing and comfort just as much as people do. Nonprofit SAFE (Saving Animals from Euthanasia) Rescue Team, which Pineda founded in 2019, provides these things for animals that have been diagnosed with severe medical issues and injuries. The rescue pulls dogs from shelters and other rescues and regularly takes in owner surrenders, and they pay everyone’s medical bills. They also provide spay and neuter procedures for all the pets. ....