Photo Courtesy of Heather Snodgrass
Operation Photo Rescue will be headed to Nashville, TN on Sept 10-11 at Belmont University. Below is the press release being sent out.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Operation Photo Rescue to Send Volunteer Photo Restoration Team to Nashville, TN
El Dorado, KS August 11, 2010
Operation Photo Rescue (OPR), a global not-for-profit organization, is gathering a [...]
(Photo Courtesy of Heather Snodgrass & Holly Ables)
Plans in Works for September Copy Run
Nashville, TN has taken a back seat to the disaster unfolding in the Gulf Coast, but the devastation there deserves more attention and help. Nashville suffered the worst flood in their history. The flooding was so widespread that few areas were spared. [...]
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Operation Photo Rescue was approached more than a year ago by Katie Miller, MFA, Associate Professor of Web and Digital Media Development at University Wisconsin-Stevens Point, about getting her students involved in helping restore photos. We communicated by emails infrequently, but that was all to change when earlier this year a letter was sent out to [...]
Operation Photo Rescue had a suscessful copy run in Austell, GA helping eighteen families and bringing back 234 photos. Congratulations to Kiska Moore, Jon Molnar, Eric Stokly, Lisa Vasatka, Laura and Greg Nalesnik, and David and Marge Greenberg. Not only did this group do a great job, but it was their first OPR copy run. (Photos Courtesy: David [...]
Aerial shot courtesy of David Tulis of Six Flags Over Georgia.
Operation Photo Rescue (OPR) is planning a photo copy run to Austell, GA to help anyone who suffered flood damage to their photos this last September. Hosted by the city, the OPR team will set up operations at the Austell Threadmill Complex, at 5000 Austell [...]
Group Photo: 1st Row (l-r) Katie Miller, Christine Crossen, Corey Crossen; 2nd Row Margie Hayes, Ed Young Jr.; 3rd Row Annette Crossen, Vicky Sutterfield, Becky Sell, Jan Neil, Scott Crossen.
It seems hard to believe that it has been almost three weeks since our copy run to Cedar Rapids. Since that time we have uploaded those [...]
Day 1 went well!
We got settled into the African American Museum of Iowa in Cedar Rapids this morning, after heading to the KGAN television station for an early morning interview with Margie Hayes (President). With one copy-stand for the morning, and setting up another in the afternoon, there was a slow intake of community [...]
Operation Photo Rescue (OPR) is looking forward to the copy run in Cedar Rapids, Iowa October 9-10 of this year. This will be the second copy run, following on the heels of the run in Galveston, Texas in May for those hit by Hurricane Ike.
In June 2008 Cedar Rapids suffered a devastating flood that surpassed even a 500 [...]
On May 26, Jan and I flew back to Galveston to do an interview with Jim Gagne, Producer/Editor for The Weather Channel. OPR had just completed a copy run in Galveston three weeks earlier, when we were contacted by Jim about the possibility of doing an interview for a special running on the first day [...]
