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Jingle CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16 Roses CONTINUED FROM PAGE 17 everyone's schedules are during the holi- days, I was grateful to get a chance to catch up with fellow Div-Com members and meet other committee chairs in person. Most of all, I hope everyone had a fun time learn- ing the alternative version of the electric slide with me. I promise to do it correctly next year." Molly Shock: "Fantastic and plentiful food, creative and generous cocktails, fun and involving games, wonderful conversa- tion. It really helped recharge my spirit as to how wonderful the members and leaders of our Guild are and how appreciative I am for all their service." M a r y D e C h a m b r e s : " I t h o r o u g h l y enjoyed being able to connect in person with other diversity committee members and I was thrilled to see many MPEG board members in attendance getting more famil- iar with the work the diversity committees are doing." Craig Eustis: "It was so nice seeing ev- eryone in person again after years of being remote. The food and drinks were amazing. The trivia games and the ugly sweater con- test were a hoot. I can't remember the last time I laughed so much." Terilyn A. Shropshire: "I entered to a festive party in progress with an energized, spirited group of editors 'sweatered up' for the occasion. I am very grateful when we can face (and face mask) the obvious challenges of connection that our world presents us and remember to do our best to celebrate the holidays and each other." ■ Saleem Aziz is a picture editor whose credits include "Tom Swift." help and get them out of their cutting rooms and dub stages. Margaret Guinee was the first to take me up on my offer. She, along with her husband Bill, cut statice that was used to decorate the blue part of the hang glider. Cutting statice is one of the most tedious jobs so I asked her what she thought. "Helping work on the float reminded me of being an assis- tant editor, intending to some of the small details that seem almost trivial. But when you see the whole, you realize that those hours spent carefully cutting blue statice contributed to something important," Guinee said. I had Sidney Wolinsky paint the moun- tain climber's axe while the rest of his family painted and started decorating the glider. "While we were all given tasks, for me the most gratifying part of the experi- ence was watching my grandchildren, Ari and Greta," he said. I love inspiring our young volunteers to "get hooked" on decorating the float, so when Greta snuck off to help decorate Ham- ilton the eagle, I was thrilled. Even my own granddaughter, Payton, is now decorating the float with me. She is having so much fun that I sometimes have to stay late because she's not ready to go home. At one point, I had too much help so I sent Molly Shock, Denise Barbass, and Paula Shanfield to the flower cage to prep the flowers. I tasked Alan Heim, Glenn T. and Jennifer Morgan, F. Hudson Miller and Patricia A. Kennedy to decorate the speaker covers. Being a longtime supervising sound designer/editor, Glenn T. Morgan said, "Me? Decorating the speaker covers for the float? Such a sonic idea!" As they applied red strawflower, coffee husk, crushed white bean, crushed red len- til, yellow strawflower and crushed cocoa bean, Alan Heim said, "I loved applying strange items to the speaker grilles. Felt like a kid getting glue on myself." F. Hudson Miller added, "I was surprised how similar float decoration is to sound editing. Both are an additive process in which many team members build a tapestry out the tiniest bits and pieces." Meanwhile, Molly Shock helped put wa- ter into 1200 vials for the roses and trimmed the leaves from 300 hydrangeas before I got her to slow down and help me decorate the glider. Molly said, "You need glue painted on a 12-foot canvas (white cocooned screen) so that sweet white rice, burgundy cran- berry seeds, and dried blue flower statice petals can be carefully applied by hand? I'm your gal!" Thanks to everyone's talent and hard work, the speaker covers, climber's axe, eagle, and hang glider got done early and they were ready to be placed on the float. My personal goal with our organization is to one day bring home the Sweepstakes Trophy for most beautiful entry. This is a very big goal because being a self-built float, meaning it's completely constructed and decorated by volunteers, we don't have the budgets that the professionals do. A normal float costs $350,000. We have a budget of $71,000. Our volunteers are so talented that I believe we can win that award. We came very close with 2020's "Rise Up," and brought home the Leishman Public Spirit Award for most outstanding floral presen- tation. Not too bad for a self-built float. As our float "Adventure Awaits" went down Colorado Boulevard, I took great pride knowing I had a small hand in its creation. Working on a rose float is a unique experi- ence and a great way to start the new year Burbank's f loat went on to win the Queen's Award for most outstanding pre- sentation of roses. I hope this becomes a Local 700 tradition. ■ Erik C. Andersen is a picture editor and Local 700 board member who serves on the publications committee. 56 C I N E M O N T A G E