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AMR Portraits in partnership with Electric Tan and Salon gladly presents: “BEAUTY RELIEF” on Saturday May 28, 2011, a fundraiser for the people of Greenville, TN who have been recently devastated by a series of tornado storms. Proceeds will be given to the American Red Cross’ Disater Relief Fund. Support a worthy cause and get a fresh look all in one trip! Join the folks at Electric Tan and Salon in Woodfin, NC anytime between 8am - 6pm for one of two exciting packages!
Beauty Session: One of the experienced stylists will offer styling. The customer will then have a short photo session with one of the photographers. They will receive 1-8x10, 2- 5x7’s, and either 4-3.5x5’s or 9-wallets (same day). Time:30-40 per customer. Walk-in’s welcome and appointments made by calling (828) 380- 9748.
Price $40- cash only
Price break down- $10 automatically will go to the American Red Cross
Photo Session: One of the photographers will do a short photo session with the customer. They will receive 1 8x10, 2-5x7’s, and either 4-3.5x5 or 9-wallets (same day). Walk-in’s welcome and appointments made by calling (828) 380-9748.
Price $15-cash only
Price break down- $10 automatically will go to the American Red Cross
Couples and Children welcome and encouraged!!! Great way to get school pictures!!
Raffle Drawings- all proceeds directly given to the American Red Cross
Exciting Raffles from AMR Portraits, and the stylists of Electric Tan and Salon. Free photo sessions and prints, free hair products, free styling and cut.
Refreshments will be provided.
Have you been eying the latest in game consoles, laptops or televisions? Are you jonesing for some new tunes and flicks? Well now you can donate blood or platelets at any Red Cross blood drive and exchange your Donor Rewards points for Best Buy® Reward Zone® points!
Yep - donating blood with Red Cross Racing just got better! You can help save up to three lives with every blood donation AND you can work towards some sweet Best Buy gear.
Give Blood. Get points. Get the stuff you love! For more details visit http://www.redcrossracing.com/
But this cat video is just too sweet.
And, of course, if you want to help survivors of disasters like the recent tornadoes and floods you can always donate.
(This post has been reblogged from Cross Blog, the blog of the Oregon Trail Chapter of the American Red Cross.)
Public, we're worried about you. Apparently, you are inordinately worried about a Zombie Apocalypse. Well, we're not here to judge. We're here to help you plan, prepare for and avoid disaster. And now even the Center for Disease Control agrees that zombies are a serious threat (wink wink). So here goes...
REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: Residents of the department of Likouala remain in a precarious situation following the massive influx in 2009 of refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The ICRC is distributing farm and fishing equipment for almost 100,000 residents to ensure that food reserves will not be exhausted.
JAPAN: Red Cross and Red Crescent partners from around the world gathered in Tokyo from May 9-11 to review the response to the disaster so far and to discuss plans to aid long-term recovery. The American Red Cross has made another $30 million donation to the Japanese Red Cross, bringing its contributions to date to more than $160 million.
PAKISTAN: Pakistan Red Crescent Society workers are teaching residents about disaster preparedness in advance of the monsoon season, which last year caused massive flooding and landslides.
NAMIBIA: The Namibia Red Cross and the World Health Organization are partnering to prevent disease outbreaks during floods.
GLOSSARY:
Topics Include: • Head (Brain), Neck and Spinal Injuries
• Wounds and Wound Infection
• Hypothermia
• Heat-Related Emergencies
• Allergies and Anaphylaxis
• Altitude-Related Illnesses
• Bone and Joint Injuries
• Burns, and more….
Also, you get to play with fake blood. I mean, come on! Woot!May 20 &21 / 9:00am – 5:00pm both days
Asheville-Mountain Area Chapter
American Red Cross
100 Edgewood Road
Asheville, NC 28804
June 4 & 5 / 9:00am – 5:00pm both days
Park Ridge Health Center
Duke Conference Room
100 Hospital Drive
Hendersonville, NC 28792
Saving the world might be as easy as picking up a video game controller.
As Red Cross of WNC Staff and Volunteers returned from their deployments in Eastern North Carolina on Sunday, they wasted no time in making arrangements for yet another deployments to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where they will help with the disaster response to the recent tornadoes. Some of our staff and volunteers still remain in the eastern part of North Carolina and our thoughts also remain with them. But in light of the devastation in the Southeast, we all have on thought in in common: "When will it end?" It seems that the South has been all but destroyed by one deadly storm after another. We, each and every one of us in WNC, long to lend a hand to a neighbor, we hope for time for our neighbors to heal, we wait for good news.
In the midst of our hoping and waiting comes a story of bravery from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, written by Danelle Schlegelmilch, a Red Cross worker who was deployed to Alabama to help with tornado relief.
Kevonte Jackson, D’Monte and Kedavian Key take a break in the Red Cross shelter to share their amazing story of surviving the ride of their lives in a tornado.
Today I met the most courageous little boy I might ever meet in my life at a Red Cross shelter in Tuscaloosa, Ala. D’Monte Key is like any other 8-year-old boy; rambunctious, spunky and full of energy.
As he zipped passed me today in his tank top and flip-flops I didn’t notice anything unusual about him. It was only when he slowed down that I noticed little D’Monte was covered in stitches.
The same boy who was doing cartwheels through the aisles at the shelter today is very lucky to be alive. Just three days ago D’Monte’s world was literally turned upside down when a tornado sucked up his home and family. D’Monte and his family were running to the bathroom to take cover from the storm when their home started to shake off of its foundation and took off.
“The whole house went up in the air and we went up with it,” Nicco Key, D’Montes mother, said. “We were all flying around in different rooms, going up and down all over the place. I kept spinning round and hitting the walls.”
“I saw D’monte and he was going up higher into the tornado so I grabbed him and pulled him back down. The whole time I kept praying ‘Lord, take care of us’ over and over again. It felt like the blink of an eye, like a dream, and it was gone in 30 seconds.”
When asked what it felt like to be in the middle of a tornado, D’monte simply replied, “Bad…real bad.” His 7-year-old brother Kedavian added, “I saw the tornado. We were inside it. I looked up and I saw my brother was in the sky. De’monte was in the sky.”
When the home finally dropped from the sky it landed about 20 feet down the road and D’monte, his two brothers, mother and her boyfriend landed on the street below all with various injuries. The house destroyed along with their vehicles. D’monte was knocked unconscious and the most seriously injured.
His 13-year-old brother, Kevonte, threw D’Monte, who was covered with blood, over his own ripped-up back, and ran him down the street, through rubble and live wires, to the hospital. Miraculously, they all survived. D’Monte with dozens of stitches all over his face and body.
“I just thank God I’m still here and my family is all safe,” Nicco said. “The tornado didn’t touch the house next to mine, but it moved ours off the ground. But we made it and we are blessed for that.”
“I thank God for the Red Cross,” she added. “It has been great staying here. Everyone is so nice and we are treated right. It is also good to be able to talk to others about what happened to us. That really helps us cope.”
