They’re in the classroom, they’re in the home, they’re in the vacation plan$, they’re in theater$, they’re on the Radio & TV & Cable & $atellite, they’re on the ipod’$ & ipad$, they’re on the kids clothe$, they’re sides of buse$ of everywhere, they’re in the parents wallet$ & they’re in the kids too! They’re the truth-tellers of human history, they’re the maintainer$ of the “Happiest Place on Earth!”
They’re here, there, everywhere!
Now they’re watching over the diseased, wounded, bleeding, coughing, crying, sick lil’ children.
Oh,my! 
(Follow-the-Crane$!)
$5 million gift to CHOC includes Disney-themed lobby:
Disney employees are designing an interactive lobby with characters.
By COURTNEY PERKES / OC Register
Published: Feb. 6, 2012
ORANGE – The Disneyland Resort announced a $5 million gift Monday to Children’s Hospital of Orange County for an expansion that will include a Disney-designed lobby.
The donation toward a 426,000-square-foot patient tower was announced with Disney music and flourish on top of a CHOC parking garage overlooking the construction site on La Veta Avenue in Orange. Mickey Mouse, wearing a tuxedo, blew a kiss to Kim Cripe, chief executive of the hospital.
In addition to giving money toward the $560 million expansion, about a dozen Disney employees are designing an interactive lobby that will include characters. Disney created a lobby last year for Florida Hospital for Children in Orlando.
“This is just perfectly aligned,” said George Kalogridis, president of Disneyland Resort and a member of the CHOC board. “We love, of course, to entertain children. The majority of our philanthropic efforts are centered on children.”
The gift from Disney is CHOC’s third largest in a $125 million fundraising campaign.
Last year, CHOC received $30 million, the largest in its history, from the estate of Robert Tidwell, a retired investment banker living in Garden Grove. Tidwell’s only previous donation had been a used computer. The hospital also received $10 million from Hyundai for cancer care.
(But vaaaaait, there’$ more) 
Mo$t of the funding will come from operating income, loan$ and more than $150 million from two $tate ballot measure$ that i$$ued bond$ for children’$ hospital$.
(I hope the Looney Tunes characters get in on this act, just think of all the oppoortunitie$:
Mental ho$pital$, the Congre$$, the $upreme Court, the $enate, the White Hou$e, … Why just the other day they had the Warner Bro$ boyz over at the $imthsonian opening a new theater, $imply $aturating darling…$imply $aturating, $oak it up folks!)
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