<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hey Fellow students!<div> as of upi weren't interested and excited enough about convention, here's one more reason to be.</div><div> our fundraising committee has done it again!</div><div> Here's it's captain of capital (aka fundraising committee chair) Gabe Cazares breaking down the good times to be had, so please support the great work!<br><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><br></span></div><br><div>Convention is fast approaching and the National Association of Blind<br>Students is gearing up to be a part of it. Here are but a few of the<br>fundraising activities that we will be hosting at this year’s annual<br>national convention, please support your one and only student<br>division.<br><br>Back by popular demand, custom made slate and stylus carrying cases.<br>Do you always have to rummage through your backpack, briefcase, or<br>purse to find your slate and stylus? Don’t you wish there was an<br>easier way to keep both of them together? Well fellow Federationists,<br>ask and you shall receive! NABS has once again partnered with<br>Stitchville of Ruston to bring you hand-made, sleek, and fashionable<br>carrying cases for your slate and stylus. You can order yours for the<br>very affordable price of $15 at the NABS exhibit hall table or by<br>contacting anyone on the NABS board.<br><br>We’ve all heard of 50/50 raffles but this year, NABS is proud to bring<br>to you a 60/40 raffle. Yes, how generous of us, we know! Should you be<br>the one to draw the lucky ticket you will get 60% of the pot, while<br>your friendly neighborhood student division keeps 40%. The only way<br>you can potentially walk away with a fat wad of cash however, is by<br>purchasing tickets. The more tickets we sell, the larger the prize<br>will be. It’s easy and simple to enter, you can purchase 1 ticket for<br>$2, or you can purchase 3 tickets for $5. The more tickets you<br>purchase, the better your odds are to win! Purchase tickets at our<br>NABS exhibit hall table or by contacting any one of us on the NABS<br>board.<br><br>As many of you know our casino-style game night popularly known as<br>Monte Carlo will once again be taking place at this year’s convention<br>on Thursday July 4 from 8:00Pm to 11:30 PM in Salons 1 and 2, level 2<br>of the Rosen Center Hotel. However, what you may not know is that NABS<br>will be holding some of your Favorite Federationists hostage, and<br>they’ll need your help to make bail and be released from NABS<br>captivity. Don’t worry, they won’t be tortured too badly. Come help<br>your fellow Federationists make bail.<br>At 8:00 PM NABS will be holding Joanne Wilson, Carl Jacobsen, and Joe<br>Ruffalo hostage. At 9:00 PM Ever Lee Hairston, Eric Guillory, and<br>Patti Chang will be in need of your help. And finally at 10:00 PM Anil<br>Lewis, Mary Fernandez, and Alex Castillo will be in NABS custody.<br>You won’t want to miss this year’s Monte Carlo Night, it is gearing up<br>to be quite the entertaining event.<br><br>If you have any NABS fundraising related questions, or if you’d like<br>to buy raffle tickets, please feel free to contact me by writing to me<br>at: <a href="mailto:gcazares@nfbtx.org">gcazares@nfbtx.org</a> or by telephone at: 713-269-5156.<br><br>See y’all in Orlando!<br><br>...Gabe<br><br>Gabe Cazares, Chairman<br>NABS Fundraising Committee<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Darian Smith</div><div>2nd Vice President, National Association of Blind Students</div><div><a href="mailto:dsmithnfb@gmail.com">dsmithnfb@gmail.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.nabslink.org">www.nabslink.org</a></div><div>Follow the National Association of Blind Students on twitter: @nabslink</div><div><blockquote type="cite"><br>Vehicle Donations Take the Blind Further <br>Donate your car to the National Federation of the Blind today!<br>For more information, please visit: <a href="http://www.carshelpingtheblind.org/">www.carshelpingtheblind.org</a> or call 1-855-659-9314<br></blockquote></div></div>
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