Sunday, December 20, 2009

L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Big Sunday Join Forces for Largest Citywide Day of Service in the Nation, Up to 25,000 Volunteers Expected on Sunday, May 7

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and biographer David Levinson, Founder and Chair of Big Sunday, will accompany up to 25,000 Angelenos for an aberrant citywide day of service, the better in the USA, on Sunday, May 7th, 2006 at sites throughout the City of Los Angeles and Southern California.

Los Angeles, CA -- Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and David Levinson, Founder and Chair of Big Sunday, will accompany up to 25,000 Angelenos for the better citywide day of account in the USA on Sunday, May 7th, 2006 at sites throughout the City of Los Angeles and Southern California.

"We apprehend up to 25,000 humans to advance this Sunday, May 7th for Big Sunday 06, L.A.s Annual Day of Service," said Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa. "Whether you can accord an hour, or the absolute day, you can be a allotment of this citywide accomplishment to adorn Los Angeles and body association pride. Cook commons for the homeless, mural your school, acrylic a house, or appear a association concert -- Big Sunday has something for everyone."

David Levinson added, "What makes Big Sunday altered from added grassroots advance projects is its different philosophy: everyone, behindhand of how affluent or poor, how old or young, your race, religion, gender or ethnicity, can advice anyone -- anybody helps, anybody wins."

On Big Sunday 06, L.A.s Annual Day of Service, up to 25,000 volunteers, from preschoolers to seniors, advancing from over 150 schools and organizations throughout Southern California, will plan on over 250 association account projects in neighborhoods all over Los Angeles. Projects are advised for anyone, all-around all age-groups and schedules, with projects abiding from one hour to the accomplished day.

The advanced ambit of projects includes: agriculture and adorning schools, hospices, and center houses; rehabilitating and painting homes; affable and confined commons for the homeless; transforming corners of bane into association active rooms; painting out graffiti; creating association murals; decorating annual pots for the infirm; singing to abandoned seniors; acrimonious up debris off the street, at the beach, and alternating the Los Angeles River; acceptable abominable accomplishment groups; knitting accouterment for abortive babies; accumulating bales for troops abroad; adopting money for organizations through car washes, bake sales, and flea markets; demography at-risk and abandoned adolescence and their families to appropriate contest about Los Angeles; accommodating in a bloom fair, job fair, or cultural festival; and abounding added projects. There will aswell be accumulating drives for books, clothes, blimp animals, socks and underwear, a allotment of added items. Blood drives, chargeless alfresco concerts, and a pizza affair at the L.A. Zoo for all volunteers will aswell crop abode at altered times throughout the day.

Big Sunday 06, L.A.s Annual Day of Service, is organized through a affiliation amid the Office of Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa and Big Sunday.

Big Sunday was started in 1999 by Levinson, a biographer by trade, as Temple Israel of Hollywoods Mitzvah Day with just 300 volunteers. Last year, Big Sunday totaled 8000 volunteers of every race, religion, socio-economic and aboriginal accumulation from all over Southern California.

Mayor Villaraigosa has sponsored about one dozen awful acknowledged and actual accepted bounded and citywide association canicule of account -- aboriginal as Councilmember of the 14th Council District and again as Mayor. On October 8, 2005 Mayor Villaraigosa organized the aboriginal City-wide Day of Service for our Youth which brought in over 7500 volunteers from above Los Angeles.

In backward 2005, the leaders of Big Sunday and the Office of Mayor Villaraigosa agreed to accompany armament to adapt the better day of account in the nation. By abutting forces, the Office of Mayor Villaraigosa and Big Sunday apprehend up to 25,000 volunteers on May 7th, 2006.

"Beautifying the association and architecture association pride accept consistently been the ambition of our association canicule of service," said Mayor Villaraigosa. "Big Sunday 06, L.A.s Annual Day of Service will appearance us what we can accomplish if we all plan calm appear these accepted goals."

Sponsors include: Toyota Motor Corporation, Temple Israel of Hollywood, The Walt Disney Company, Paramount Pictures, NBC Universal, Latham and Watkins LLP, and Playa Vista Corporation.

To annals and to appearance a account of projects by area, the accessible and media can go to www.bigsunday.org .

Preparation plan for abounding of the projects that will crop abode on Big Sunday will activate this week.

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