Plans for Hummelstown, PA
Operation Photo Rescue (OPR) is making plans to travel to Hummelstown,PA in the spring of 2012 to help residents whose photos were damaged by Tropical Storm Lee in September of last year. Anyone in the surrounding area with damaged photos is encouraged to bring them to the William H & Marian C Alexander Family Library in Hummelstown,PA on April 6-7, 2012. Hours of operation will be: Friday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Photos brought to the library need to be dry and removed from picture frames or albums. Those photos that cannot be extracted will still be copied, ...
“The Picture” by Barbara C. Reed
After saving your loved ones, of course, what one material item would you grab if your home was being destroyed and you had to run for your life? As a child, I would have known the answer to that question and would never have had to think twice.The answer to what I would grab would always have been one particular photograph. Now I have given several people copies to keep in case of a disaster, since you can’t tell when your life will be suddenly turned upside down. I had a twin brother named Bruce. This was before IVF made twins almost commonplace. ...
Stark County Ohio Gets Mini Copy Run
Stark County Ohio gets mini Copy Run from OPR Volunteers Pat and Mike Sluder On July 19, 2011 Stark County Ohio received five inches of rain. As a result, homes were flooded with up to four feet of water in the basements. It was a record-setting deluge that stranded motorists and forced homes to be evacuated as well as shutting down the Akron-Conaton Airport. The Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad cancelled service and the area was declared a disaster. Following is a link from the local paper on the flooding. I had been an OPR volunteer for nearly a year and had experienced the ...
Saving Joplin’s Photos
Joplin MO, June 4, 2011--The EF-5 tornado on May 22, tore a path through Joplin seven miles long and half a mile wide. FEMA is in the city to provide assistance to the disaster survivors. FEMA Photographers: Jace Anderson (front) and Steve Zumwalt. Operation Photo Rescue is planning a copy run to Joplin, MO October 7-8 at the Joplin Public Library, 300 S. Main Street. The hours of operation will be 9 am to 6 pm Friday and Saturday. A lot of planning has gone into finding a suitable place to hold the copy run. Thanks goes to Victoria Johnson, System & Web ...
Operation Photo Rescue Coming to Spalding County
Operation Photo Rescue will be sending a team of volunteers to Griffin, GA to help residents with damaged photos from the tornadoes of April 27, 2011 in Spalding County and surrounding areas. Operations will be set up at the Vaughn School Road Fire Station at 765 Vaughn School Road, Griffin, GA from Friday July 15 and Saturday July 16, 2011 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days. Area resident with photos damaged by the tornadoes may bring up to 20 photos to be restored free of charge. Those images that can be repaired will be digitally copied and later restored, printed, and mailed back ...
Operation Photo Rescue Coming to Joplin
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Operation Photo Rescue Coming to Joplin, MO El Dorado, KS. May 27, 2011 — Operation Photo Rescue (OPR), a not-for-profit organization, will be offering assistance to the residents of Joplin whose photos have been damaged in the May 22, 2011 tornado. In the coming months, times and location will be decided upon for those to bring in their photos. OPR will send in a group of volunteers to digitally copy the damaged photos, they will be uploaded to a gallery for members to restore. Once done they will be printed, and send home free of charge. The original photos ...
Looking Back at 2010
This year OPR did only one copy run and that was to Nashville, TN. In terms of the numbers of photos brought back it was very successful. We helped 60 families and came back with over a 1,000 photos to be restored. The run was held at Belmont University and we were very fortunate to have a large number of students helping at the welcoming desk. I would like you to read what Autumn Allison, journalism student at Belmont, wrote about OPR’s visit. Four months after the Nashville Flood, relief efforts are still in process, one of the non-profits continuing with ...
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Plans for Hummelstown, PA
Operation Photo Rescue (OPR) is making plans to travel to Hummelstown,PA in the spring of 2012 to help residents whose photos were damaged by Tropical Storm Lee in September of last year. Anyone in the surrounding area with damaged photos is encouraged to bring them to the William H & Marian C Alexander Family Library in Hummelstown,PA on April 6-7, 2012. Hours of operation will be: Friday:... [Read more]
“The Picture” by Barbara C. Reed
After saving your loved ones, of course, what one material item would you grab if your home was being destroyed and you had to run for your life? As a child, I would have known the answer to that question and would never have had to think twice.The answer to what I would grab would always have been one particular photograph. Now I have given several people copies to keep in case of a disaster, since... [Read more]
Stark County Ohio Gets Mini Copy Run
Stark County Ohio gets mini Copy Run from OPR Volunteers Pat and Mike Sluder On July 19, 2011 Stark County Ohio received five inches of rain. As a result, homes were flooded with up to four feet of water in the basements. It was a record-setting deluge that stranded motorists and forced homes to be evacuated as well as shutting down the Akron-Conaton Airport. The Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad... [Read more]
Saving Joplin’s Photos
Joplin MO, June 4, 2011–The EF-5 tornado on May 22, tore a path through Joplin seven miles long and half a mile wide. FEMA is in the city to provide assistance to the disaster survivors. FEMA Photographers: Jace Anderson (front) and Steve Zumwalt. Operation Photo Rescue is planning a copy run to Joplin, MO October 7-8 at the Joplin Public Library, 300 S. Main Street. The hours of operation... [Read more]
Operation Photo Rescue Coming to Spalding County
Operation Photo Rescue will be sending a team of volunteers to Griffin, GA to help residents with damaged photos from the tornadoes of April 27, 2011 in Spalding County and surrounding areas. Operations will be set up at the Vaughn School Road Fire Station at 765 Vaughn School Road, Griffin, GA from Friday July 15 and Saturday July 16, 2011 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days. Area resident with... [Read more]
Operation Photo Rescue Coming to Joplin
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Operation Photo Rescue Coming to Joplin, MO El Dorado, KS. May 27, 2011 — Operation Photo Rescue (OPR), a not-for-profit organization, will be offering assistance to the residents of Joplin whose photos have been damaged in the May 22, 2011 tornado. In the coming months, times and location will be decided upon for those to bring in their photos. OPR will send in a group... [Read more]
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