[il-talk] ABLE Group is "Team of the Year"!

[Deborah Kent Stein]

Congratulations to all of you!  This is awesome!

Debbie


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Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 10:14 AM
Subject: [il-talk] ABLE Group is "Team of the Year"!


> Hi Everyone
>
> As you probably know, the ABLE (Access to Braille Literacy for Everyone) 
> Group was formed out of the Blackhawk Chapter a year and a half ago.  The 
> goal was to promote the reading and writing of Braille by meeting weekly 
> to do both reading and writing together.
>
> Last fall, the NFB Braille Readers Are Leaders contest sponsored, for the 
> first time, an adult category -- and also a team category.  The ABLE Group 
> decided to enter the contest as a team, with five people on the team:  Bob 
> Gardner, Lois Montgomery, Jana Hergert, Patrick Olson, and Jean 
> Rauschenbach.  We set a team goal for the number of pages we would 
> collectively read, then went at it.
>
> Along the way, Lois Montgomery won the nationwide award as the first place 
> reader in the Beginner adult category (80 words per minute or less), 
> reading around 3000 pages in the two months of the contest.  And of 
> course, our collective team goal of pages read far exceeded our original 
> goal.
>
> Then at the end of last week, I got a package in the mail.  When I opened 
> it, I found a plaque and some paperwork -- all that telling that the ABLE 
> Group had been selected as the "Team of the Year" award!  Wow, what a 
> surprise, and what an honor.
>
> Once again, Illinois rocks!
>
> Bob
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