Posts tagged homeless
Leather Headquarters Fundraiser for Veteran’s Home and Homeless Vets
Dec 1st
On December 5th, 2015 from 11am – 2pm, Both Leather Headquarters locations in Las Vegas will be hosting the Annual Fundraiser for Veteran’s Home and Homeless Vets. 100% of the Proceeds go to Vets Home for the Holidays Drive. Come join them to support our vets and enjoy Free Lunch, Huge Sales and lots of Raffle Prizes.
If you can’t make it but still want to donate to the cause please send check or money order to:
4245 Boulder Hwy.
Las Vegas, NV 89121
Thank you all for the support on this, our vets can definitely use the help!
Nightcrawler “Good and Creepy”
Nov 12th
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
NIGHTCRAWLER is a fascinating and dark movie that affects you the way passing an accident on the highway does: You want to look at it, but you feel a little bit guilty in doing so.
Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Louis Bloom, a petty thief who does come across an automobile accident in Los Angeles, and the experience changes his life so much that he becomes a different man because of it.
It is the middle of the night, Lou stops his car to observe what is happening at the scene, he watches a videographer record footage for morning news programs, and when he sees the footage on television, Lou decides that he can do that, and so he buys himself a camcorder and a police scanner and sets out to become a freelance videographer specializing in accidents and crime scenes that happen in the middle of the night.
Lou makes his first sale for $250, and when the news director tells him he has a good eye, Lou says, “I’m a very, very quick learner; you’ll be seeing me again.”
A carjacking crime wave going on in the city causes business to be so good for Lou that he hires a young homeless man for $30 a night to be his assistant.
Rick’s job is to ride shotgun, watch the traffic, give directions, and handle a second camera for different angles at the scenes.
Well, one night Lou and Rick come onto a crime scene that will change their lives.
It involves shootings during a home invasion, and because Lou and Rick arrive on the scene before the police do, they see the shooters leave the house, and Lou even records them.
Then Lou goes inside the house to get exclusive footage of the victims while Rick stays outside and stands watch.
Lou has no compunction against moving evidence inside the house for better camera angles before the police arrive and gets away with it.
For now.
Lou establishes a business relationship with the news director of one of the TV stations, who is Nina, played by Rene Russo, but he would like their relationship to be more than just business.
Rick wants more money, the police question Lou, and then all hell breaks loose.
NIGHTCRAWLER is fascinating to watch, very good, but very very very very creepy.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
Bicyclist ends 3100 miles trek in St. Augustine Beach
Jul 6th
Greg did not ride along the interstate highways but took other roads along the way. What was unusual about his journey? He is a double amputee, having two artificial legs to pedal his bike.
The Mississippi youth traveled through dust storms and rain storms. Having only a backpack, he camped along the way and sometimes slept beside the homeless. The purpose of his trip? To raise awareness about amputees among youth.
When asked “What are you taking away from this?” he replied “Gratefulness.” He was thankful to the many kind people he met and who helped him along the way.
Greg left Jacksonville Beach this Saturday morning, stopped briefly for a meeting with friends and family at 1 p.m. in Vilano Beach, then rode south on A1-A to end his trek at St. Augustine Beach. He has traveled about 60-100 miles every day.
Greg has a Facebook profile at https://www.facebook.com/MilesForAmputees
He may also be contacted at (662) 414-6558.
Story by Jonathan Graham