Cadillac Desert benefit premiere held
by Shelly Backlar
On Tuesday, June 17, members from the Mono Lake Committee and the Natural Resources Defense Council gathered at Sony Studios in Culver City to attend the premiere of "Mulholland’s Dream," the first episode in the four-part PBS documentary series Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature.
To order the Cadillac Desert series, click here. If you’d like to learn more about the Cadillac Desert series, see these two sites for more information:
http://www.pbs.org/cadillacdesert
http://www.crpi.org/cadillacdesert
The Mono Lake Committee would like to thank the Natural Resources Defense Council for inviting us to participate in the benefit premiere of "Mulholland’s Dream," particularly Patricia Sullivan, Dana Rosenkrantz, and Lori Michaels for their exceptional organizational skills. Thanks also to volunteers Herley Jim and Mollie Bowling, Corie Takasane, and Jorge Wong for staffing the information table during the event.
We would like to thank the organizations who generously contributed: St. Thomas Creations; Honeywell DMC Services, Inc.; The Law Firm of McClintock, Weston, Benshoof, Rochefort, Rubalcava, MacCuish LLP; Global Stratagem Group; Mercury Air Group, Inc.; and P.S. Enterprises.
But most of all, we thank the Mono Lake Committee members who contributed to the event for continuously supporting our efforts to ensure Mono Lake’s protection, to restore the Mono Basin ecosystem, and to provide watershed education programs. Together we can heal the damage caused by 50 years of destruction at Mono Lake!
Supporters who contributed to the event include: Mike Allen, Rich & Erin Atwater, Nancy Bacal, Shelly and Roger Backlar, Barbara Blake, Stan Bluhm, Stacy Brown, Jean Bulpitt, Lawrence Bush, Thomas Byrd, David Cobb, Paul Cooley, Martha Davis, Marc Dymaly, Maureen Erbeznik, James Finch, Richard Fox, Anne Friend, Reid Fry, Steven Gabriel, Ruth Galanter, Herb Hain, Chris Holabird, Amy Holm, Melanie Ingalls, Lillian Kawasaki, LeAnn Killian, Robert Glenn Ketchum, Mike Kleinman, Robert Krauch, T. Ladewski, Ellen Lehman, Clara Link, Elsa Lopez, Alan Magree, Ed & Maria Manning, Rob Marks, Albert Miller, Lloyd Mill, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Richards, Rick Ruiz, Trudi Sandmeier, Mr. & Mrs. Joe Selegrath, Tom Soto, Frances Spivy-Weber, Mr. & Mrs. George Speechly, Howard Strauss, Michael Weber, Lisa Weil, Alexa Williams, and Walter Williams.
Shelly Backlar is the Committee’s Development Director. To make a long story short, she’s back!
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