Joaquin – Sweat Lodge Lead
Joaquin - at the wedding - he was also the leader of the sweat a few nights before.
Everyday Heroes – Community Impact: Klip it For Kidz
American Red Cross Southern Nevada Chapter - Everyday Heroes - Community Impact: Klip it For Kidz
In March 2010, with the combined efforts of Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, and Clark County Fire Department, hundreds of supporters gathered at Town Square to chop their locks supporting the Klip it for Kidz event. Raising more than $80,000.00, Klip it for Kidz will use the monies raised to directly fund more than 25 programs offered by the Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation (NCCF). These programs will provide social, emotional, educational, financial and psychological support services to families whose children have been diagnose with life threatening illnesses.
Join us for our fourth annual Everyday Heroes Awards. Every day in our community ordinary people make extraordinary contributions, by putting their needs aside to help others in times of crisis. The American Red Cross is honored to salute these unsung heroes.
The awards will be presented at the Everyday Heroes breakfast, October 21, 2010, at 7:30am at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. They are presented by the Southern Nevada Chapter of the American Red Cross and Harrah’s Entertainment, with generous support from both Greenspun Media Group and 8 News Now and their Community Pride Partners: NV Energy and McDonald’s.
Everyday Heroes – Community Service: Jonathon Jones
American Red Cross Southern Nevada Chapter - Everyday Heroes - Community Service: Jonathon Jones
As a Clark County Firefighter, businessman, husband, and father, Jonathon is a community member dedicated to serving Las Vegas individuals. Dividing his little-but-spare-time between two programs, Camp Anytown, and Project Homeless Connect, Jonathon’s volunteer services make large-scale, impact programs possible. At Camp Anytown, Jonathon dedicates his time to ensuring the health and wellbeing of the sixty teenagers and thirty plus volunteers at each camp. Jonathon personally recruits his volunteer staff f or the kitchen, oversees every meal, every snack, and every drink. As a trained medic, Jonathon also tends to those dehydrated and suffered from altitude related illnesses. For the Project Homeless in 2009, Jonathon recruited and managed all of the stylists, who provided over 600 haircuts for the homeless in less than eight hours.
Join us for our fourth annual Everyday Heroes Awards. Every day in our community ordinary people make extraordinary contributions, by putting their needs aside to help others in times of crisis. The American Red Cross is honored to salute these unsung heroes.
The awards will be presented at the Everyday Heroes breakfast, October 21, 2010, at 7:30am at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. They are presented by the Southern Nevada Chapter of the American Red Cross and Harrah’s Entertainment, with generous support from both Greenspun Media Group and 8 News Now and their Community Pride Partners: NV Energy and McDonald’s.
This is not the expression I’ll be seeing today
This is not the expression Erin will be giving today. She may threaten to kill me though, repeatedly. Here's to hoping for a healthly day for all three of us.
Everyday Heroes – Youth Good Samaritan: Melissa Garcia
American Red Cross Southern Nevada Chapter - Everyday Heroes - Youth Good Samaritan: Melissa Garcia
It was another hot afternoon in July of 2010 when Melissa Garcia was babysitting her two younger brothers; Noah, three, and Sam, eighteen months. The boys were in the living room as Melissa prepared an afternoon snack for them. Melissa heard a strange noise and turned to the boys, but saw nothing out of the ordinary. Then she heard the noise again, she walked over to the boys and noticed eighteen month old Sam looked panicked and pale. She then realized he wasn’t breathing. Knowing what to do because of her formal Babysitting training and CPR certification, Melissa began giving the boy back blows until the object came out; it was a small piece of thin plastic. The boy instantly resumed to breathing and playing just as he normally would.
Join us for our fourth annual Everyday Heroes Awards. Every day in our community ordinary people make extraordinary contributions, by putting their needs aside to help others in times of crisis. The American Red Cross is honored to salute these unsung heroes.
The awards will be presented at the Everyday Heroes breakfast, October 21, 2010, at 7:30am at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. They are presented by the Southern Nevada Chapter of the American Red Cross and Harrah’s Entertainment, with generous support from both Greenspun Media Group and 8 News Now and their Community Pride Partners: NV Energy and McDonald’s.
Everyday Heros – Aquatics: Dee Dee Cunningham
American Red Cross Southern Nevada Chapter - Everyday Heros - Aquatics: Dee Dee Cunningham
Dee Dee, 9-years old, and five other children were swimming in the backyard of Dee Dee’s grandmother’s house, when Dee Dee was faced with a life and death situation of her 6-year old uncle. Just learning how to jump into the deep end with his floaties on, Dee Dee’s uncle was sitting in the Jacuzzi. Unannounced he took his floaties off and made a dive into the deep end. Coming up for water and air only once, Dee Dee noticed her uncle drowning and jumped in to save him. Pulling him from the bottom of the deep end, Dee Dee was able to save her uncle from drowning.
Join us for our fourth annual Everyday Heroes Awards. Every day in our community ordinary people make extraordinary contributions, by putting their needs aside to help others in times of crisis. The American Red Cross is honored to salute these unsung heroes.
The awards will be presented at the Everyday Heroes breakfast, October 21, 2010, at 7:30am at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. They are presented by the Southern Nevada Chapter of the American Red Cross and Harrah’s Entertainment, with generous support from both Greenspun Media Group and 8 News Now and their Community Pride Partners: NV Energy and McDonald’s.
More Images, Just for Fun
They say the best camera is the camera that you have. I tend to agree.
Lately, I’ve been just goofing off, a prime phrase for many things, with the camera most available to me. My camera phone. It’s fun, the images aren’t serious, they’re just for my own personal enjoyment.
Having said that, I do, of course, share them. I use tumblr to feed posts to my facebook fan page and my profile. So I’ve been using one of my tumblr pages, Mojave Photos, to feed images to my facebook profile, and I’ve been posting a lot of my goofing off, daily life images to it.
Some of the images are good, some aren’t, they’re just images from around life, and I enjoy it. I’ve actually stopped to doing Facebook status updates (mostly) and replaced them with photo status updates. Same idea as a status update, I just take a photo of my status instead of writing about it only.
It’s a fun game for me.
What else can you ask of any art form?
From lunch