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Fall 2019

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14 NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS Picture this. It's a beautiful warm August evening at sunset. You're outside under a tent at Sportsmen's Lodge in Studio City. Some of your best Local 695 friends are there, along with wives and husbands. There's great food and cold drinks and the music is just right. A sound mixer masquerading as a magician is walking around performing tricks that could be easily confused with actual magic. Seriously (Thank you, Thi Dinh!). Over two dozen great raffle prizes are just waiting to be given away, from a 55-inch Samsung 4K TV to Dodger dugout seats, multiple Orca bags, a Mini CMIT DPA shock mount, and quite a lot more. There are stacks of chips (all from play money, of course) to use at poker, craps, roulette, and blackjack tables. If that's not enough, the Young Workers Committee is there to give everyone a chance to donate to the IATSE PAC Fund. Well now, that's beginning to sound a whole lot like Local 695's Casino Night Fundraiser for the Motion Picture Television Fund (MPTF)! Fun was had by all. Big thanks for the night go to Linda Skinner at Local 695, Arlene Glassner and VanAn Tranchi at MPTF, and to all the great sponsors who came out to support the event, including the Cinema Audio Society, First Entertainment Credit Union, Orca, Keycode, Avid, 16x9, and Warner Bros. Production Sound & Amp Video Services. Thanks to everyone who joined us for a great night and for a great cause. Every year, the MPTF provides much- needed assistance to Local 695 members at times when they need it the most. It's our way of saying thank you MPTF! COMMUNITY IN ACTION 695 Casino Night Fundraiser for MPTF The Local 695 Family Picnic kicked off the fall season at the Van Nuys Sherman Oaks War Memorial Park with a bang, or rather a run, play, and jump! Children jumped and played as parents enjoyed much-needed family fun! Two bounce houses, hot wheels tracks, a catered lunch, Kona- shaved ice, face-painting, henna tattoos, bubble making, lawn games, super-sized games of Checkers, Jenga, Connect 4, video games for tweens/teens, and a voter registration table made for a wonderful time with family and colleagues, on a beautiful Sunday in September. We showed our 695 spirit, as more than one hundred and twenty members and families came out to enjoy our day! Everyone enjoyed lunch, catered by Bruce's. Of course, as is after any healthy lunch, mounds of candy rained down upon our children after they finally broke open two piƱatas! Many thanks to Executive Board member Juan Cisneros CAS for proposing a family picnic to the Board, and making this a reality. We are very grateful to our many volunteers who came out and helped set up, and then break down the picnic. Chris Howland CAS and Jennifer Winslow, Picnic Co-chairs, along with the Guild Activities Committee, planned the event, with expert guidance from Dorothea Sargent. Business Rep Scott Bernard spoke on the importance of voter registration, and urged every union member to vote in March 2020. The best part of the day was being together with our families who often sacrifice so much to make it possible for us to go to work. by Laurence Abrams Family Picnic The Local 695 Family Picnic kicked off the fall season at the Van Nuys Sherman Oaks War Memorial Park with a bang, or rather a run, play, and jump! Children jumped New member Ash Sutton and family Anna Wilborn and daughter with Sara Glaser Juan Cisneros CAS and family with face-painter Above: Andrea Bianchi, Jasmine Morantz, Beau Baker, Steve Morantz, Paul Pouthier, and Veronica Kahn enjoy a fun moment at Casino Night. Right: Blas Kisic shows off his tickets for the opportunity drawing.

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