[Cinci-nfb] White Cane Safety Day Awareness Walk

[Emily Pennington]

White Cane Safety Day Awareness WalkHi, Deborah.
What time is the walk on the 15th?

Thanks,
Emily
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  From: Deborah Kendrick via Cinci-nfb 
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  Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 1:28 PM
  Subject: [Cinci-nfb] White Cane Safety Day Awareness Walk


  Greetings chapter members, 

  We've just concluded the first planning committee meeting for the White Cane Safety Day Awareness Walk and I wanted to give all of you the information.  

  The good news is that both CABVI and Clovernook want to participate once again.  

  Another piece of good news is that, although some chapter members were worried that planning had begun late this year, it turns out that our first meeting to plan in 2013 was held on September 13!  So, we are a month ahead of last year's schedule!  

  The number one criticism, if you will, from John Mitchell, CEO of CABVI, was that this is an NFB event andthere were so few NFB members participating last year.  

  I assured him that we would work on changing that, and I therefore put this challenge out to all of you.  Please put October 15 on your calendar right now and please share this information with anyone who supports the work of the Federation.  Many of you have recently bought NFB polo shirts.  Many of you bought shirts specifically for the walk two years ago.  

  I urge you to locate such Federation garments now so you are ready to wear them proudly on the walk downtown.  

  Both Clovernook and CABVI are once again willling to organize and transport blind employees to the walk, so those of you who work at either agency, please talk the event up among your co-workers.  

  If you haven't done the walk before, it's a very short walk - about six blocks, I think, and we kept it short so that absolutely everyone could participate.  

  We walk with our canes, our dogs, our selves.  Seeing us in numbers reminds our sighted fellow cincinnatians that we are here and that we share in the same rights and dreams as our sighted neighbors.  

  Again, put it on your calendars and stay tuned!

  Deborah

    



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