[Community-service] Effort = Results, Plain & Simple

[Everett Gavel]

Now Darian, why'd you have to go and ask such a 
question? (grin)

It is a committee that meets weekly, attends 
public town hall meetings and such, to make sure 
our needs & wants are represented. My wife and I 
both were a part of the committee in the 
beginning. We've since stepped down so that we 
could not be spread so thinly, and hopefully be 
more effective on those things we did or do choose 
to stay active with. We both have a bad habit of 
wanting to do so much and help whenever we can, 
that we've often spread ourselves too thinly 
across the board, y'know? We are both striving to 
quit doing that, and be more effective in good 
deeds than just in good intentions.

Since the committee started less than a year ago, 
there have now been a total of 8 NFB members on 
the board, helping out. There are reps from 
multiple disabilities sectors, and the committee 
has made it a point to gain support and interest 
from the general transit-riding public as well as 
the business community (businesses interested in 
shoppers using public transport, etc.). It's not 
just about the disabled community, and we made 
sure everyone understood the benefits of improving 
public transport in our city.

Strive On,
Everett
~ In Colorado Springs, CO ~


----- original message ----- 
That is definitely good.
What part did you play in this? it's always good 
to hear what good things people are doing in the 
community  to help improve the lives of  others. 
To me this is service. Thinking about others  and 
not self is  how we change  the perception that 
the blind are takers and not givers.
On Mar 31, 2013, at 7:15 PM, "Chris Parsons" 
<christine-parsons at sbcglobal.net> wrote: