Back in 2007, Santa Monica-based audio mix house Lime Studios partnered with the Global Water Trust to create LIME-AID, a Haiti relief nonprofit, which debuted with a charitable auction of postproduction services benefiting children in Haiti (SHOOT, 8/17/07). The auction was supported by numerous commercial production & postproduction houses. Today, Lime-aid is at it again, securing Haiti quake relief in the form of gathering and delivering critically needed goods to Port-au-Prince.
Lime-aid has set up a secure donations link on their website at http://www.lime-aid.tv/, plus drop off points for donated items at Lime Studios, Cut+Run, Orlee Klempner Casting, Luma Pictures, Optimus, Final Cut, GARTNER, Chrome, Spotwelders, Brickyard and several Los Angeles area schools.
Bruce Horwitz, Lime Studios partner and founder of LIME-AID, explained, “As important as donations of needed items listed on our site, donations of money are critical to insure safe passage of these items to where they are needed. Dovetail Furniture has secured a trucking company that will transport the container to Miami, where it will then be shipped to Port-au-Prince. Air Freight will be extremely expensive, as well as secure transport to the orphanages.”
Collections will be distributed to the ANA Children’s Center and Brebis de Saint Michelle Orphanage. They will also be made available to the communities that surround these facilities.
Items Sought for Lime-aid Quake Relief:
— 25 or 50 pound bag of rice
— Dry beans
— Milk powder
— Liquid formula
— Peanut butter (in plastic jars)
— Dried meat
— Spaghetti
— Cooking oil
— Bleach tablets
— Multivitamins
To see which spotmakers are donating their services, to donate and for more information, visit www.lime-aid.tv.
Kamala Harris Receives Chairman’s Prize At NAACP Image Awards
Former Vice President Kamala Harris stepped on the NAACP Image Awards stage Saturday night with a sobering message, calling the civil rights organization a pillar of the Black community and urging people to stay resilient and hold onto their faith during the tenure of President Donald Trump.
"While we have no illusions about what we are up against in this chapter in our American story, this chapter will be written not simply by whoever occupies the oval office nor by the wealthiest among us," Harris said after receiving the NAACP's Chairman's Award. "The American story will be written by you. Written by us. By we the people."
The 56th annual Image Awards was held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in the Los Angeles area.
Harris, defeated by Trump in last year's presidential election, was the first woman and the first person of color to serve as vice president. She had previously been a U.S. senator from California and the state's attorney general.
In her first major public appearance since leaving office, Harris did not reference her election loss or Trump's actions since entering the Oval Office, although Trump mocked her earlier in the day at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Harris spoke about eternal vigilance, the price of liberty, staying alert, seeking the truth and America's future.
"Some see the flames on our horizons, the rising waters in our cities, the shadows gathering over our democracy and ask 'What do we do now?'" Harris said. "But we know exactly what to do, because we have done it before. And we will do it again. We use our power. We organize, mobilize. We educate. We advocate. Our power has never come from having an easy path."
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