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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Greetings, all, </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">There are so many disturbing things about this story from the Boston Herald, but I am delighted that</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">it has the proverbial happy ending in that the blind guy won!</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I’m troubled by the journalist refering to Joel Nix</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">on’s “malady”, but then, I am a little more than touchy about words. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Read on and smile. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Peace, </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Deborah</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Commission Orders Employer To Pay $100,000 To Blind Barber For Illegal Firing (Boston Herald) November 10, 2015</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">NORTON, MASSACHUSETTS-- [Excerpt] A legally blind barber who honed his craft cutting his siblings' hair has been awarded $100,000 after a state agency found that he was illegally fired by a shop that didn't want a sight-impaired scissorsmith on staff.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">"When it comes to hairstyling, I'm an artist and I take pride in what I do," </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">said Joel Nixon, a barber who has been cutting men's hair for years. "When you're in my chair, I don't let you out of my chair until they're satisfied. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">My vision does not compromise my ability to do my job."</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Nixon, 29, has been diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a hereditary condition that affects his peripheral vision. He has trouble seeing at night, and has been declared legally blind by the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">He was working for Tony's Barber Shop in Norton in 2011, but a year later his boss, Tony Morales, discovered his malady, according to the decision by the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">On March 3, 2012, Nixon was working at the shop's South Easton location when he tripped over a customer's legs. Later in the day, he tripped over a chair in the waiting room.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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