“Catalina” the mermaid presents a $5,000 donation from the seafood company Chicken of the Sea to Operation LIPSTICK activists (from left) Gloria Mallory-Miles, Paulette Parham and Kim Odom at an Aug. 30 event at Faneuil Hall downtown. A program of Citizens for Safety, based on Heath Street in JP, Operation LIPSTICK educates women against helping to provide guns to partners and relatives who can’t own them legally. (Courtesy Photo)