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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Thanks for sending this out! I’m so glad to see that our Waterbury Chapter is already speaking out against the custodialism that yields audible crosswalk signals. If we didn’t
have the Waterbury Chapter working on this, Waterbury could become as bad as Honolulu, with audible crosswalk signals almost everywhere. It really gets in the way of teaching my students how to cross streets safely. I’m working on a research article for the
orientation and mobility profession on exactly why the implementation of audible crosswalk signals are bad for blind people. It’s too bad that I haven’t published it already because it could be great support for the Chapter’s argument.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Good luck, and please let me know how I can help!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Justin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Justin M. Salisbury, MA, NOMC, NCRTB, NCUEB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Opportunity Ambassador<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">National Federation of the Blind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Email: <a href="mailto:President@Alumni.ECU.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">President@Alumni.ECU.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">LinkedIn: </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-salisbury"><span style="color:blue">https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-salisbury</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">William Butler Yeats</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Ctabs [mailto:ctabs-bounces@nfbnet.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>llee--- via Ctabs<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 21, 2016 10:40 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> NFB of CT list serve <ct-nfb@nfbnet.org>; CTABS List serv <ctabs@nfbnet.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> llee@nfbct.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Ctabs] December Meeting of the Waterbury Area Chapter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Help Us Build Our Future</span></b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Attend Meetings of Our New Waterbury Chapter!</span></b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">The National Federation of the Blind of Connecticut (NFB of CT)
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<b>Waterbury Chapter. </b>We hold our meetings at the <b>Silas Bronson Library, 267 Grand Street,</b> on the Second Saturday of each month.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">On December 10th, our meeting will concern audible crosswalk signals in the City of Waterbury. Our State Representative Gerry Reyes, several Aldermen and a City Engineer will
attend our meeting to discuss this issue. </span></b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Plan to attend this important meeting!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">To learn that you are greater than what most sighted people believe they see, meet us at the Silas Bronson Library on S<b>aturday December 10th from noon to 2:00 PM.</b>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">For further questions, please contact Josefina Martinez at 203-578-6471, or call our community outreach office at 860-289-1971.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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