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Food, Toy Drives Lead Holiday Effort
By VIC COX
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Undergraduate Ozzie Rodriguez demonstrates the kind of foodstuffs sought as Senate Chair Walter Yuen, center, and parking staffer Elena Ricci show off one of the food drive's bins.
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For the second year in a row, Transportation and Parking Services (T&PS) has organized a canned food drive to assist the Food Bank of Santa Barbara County. It begins today, Dec. 1, runs through Dec. 12, and accepts undamaged, nonperishable foodstuffs.
Donations may be deposited in labeled bins at the east and west entrance kiosks or delivered to the parking service sales office in lot 30, across from Harder Stadium. The office will be open weekdays between 7:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Leaving little to chance, the T&PS organizing committee—Elena Ricci, Chris Rabe, and David Conners—has sent explanatory e-mails to permit holders and will enlist the department's digital signs to remind people of the food drive.
T&PS also has holiday gifts for some of Isla Vista's less fortunate children. In this they are not alone: The campus Professional Women's Association traditionally hosts a holiday party and personalized gift-giving for children attending IslaVista School.
The UCSB Bookstore has pledged 230 stuffed Teddy bears to help with PWA's party, and private individuals have been given children's personal wish lists.
While the group, which hosts Vice Chancellor Michael Young as Santa Claus, has the wish lists covered, they could use food and treat donations for the party on Dec. 11, and volunteers to help with set up and clean up duties at I.V. Elementary School. Contact Barbara Byrge (byrge@id.ucsb.edu) if you can help either way.
Teddy bears are traditional holiday gifts, and this year's model is especially popular, according to Bookstore Director Ken Bowers. However, he said there would be enough held off the shelves to not only supply the PWA party but also honor his commitment of 200 more bears to local charities.
Toys for Tots, a county Fire Department project this year, has its collection box out in the lobby of the Public Safety (police) Building. New toys will be accepted until about mid-December.
Most campus festivities will be office and departmental affairs, and some, like the Marine Science Institute's holiday open house, encompass large numbers of employees. In the case of the MSI, which used inflatable snow people last year to decorate their trailers, there were around 700 people on the invitation list.
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A snowparent and offspring graced last year's Marine Science Institute holiday open house for employees.
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