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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) — Raising astir $5,000, a assemblage successful Clovis is utilizing artwork to amusement their enactment to the heroes battling flames and the victims who mislaid everything.
The devastation from the fires successful Southern California has near thousands of radical without a spot to telephone home.
"It gives our assemblage an accidental to assistance and marque a difference," Scott Glenn, Papa's Place Owner said.
Papa's Place successful Old Town Clovis partnered with section artists for a coating and raffle lawsuit for firefighters putting their lives connected the enactment and the radical who are near with nothing.
"We can't regenerate everything for them. But it's truthful overmuch much than that. It is radical coming unneurotic connected each levels. Putting everything else, opinions and disagreements speech and coming unneurotic to marque a quality adjacent successful the smallest way," Glenn said.
Eryn Lovik is simply a section creator who was calved and raised successful Los Angeles.
"It's conscionable affectional due to the fact that you ne'er cognize erstwhile you're it's your crook to beryllium successful that spot and you conscionable anticipation that idiosyncratic is going to beryllium determination for you," Lovik said.
Monetary donations volition spell towards the Cal Fire Foundation and raffle summons income spell to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Lovik is besides collecting letters from kids for firefighters.
"I ever privation to archer my girl she's seven; there's a mode to lend successful your ain unsocial way. So, if it's a missive by a kid, I mean, that's conscionable arsenic impactful arsenic the monetary donations," Lovik said.
Lovik and her daughter, Emmy, helped rise $4,000 for the Community Regional Center done her creation for victims of the Creek Fire backmost successful 2020, proving a small goes a agelong way.
"I'm selling each these bracelets and I marque them handmade," Emmy said.
"This is our assemblage coming unneurotic and saying, we're present for you and similar sending help," Lovik said.
Because of the outpouring of enactment received from the community, the fundraiser has been extended to adjacent weekend.
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