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

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Great job, everyone!

Kathy Abbott






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From: Robert Gardner <rgardner4 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Mon, Apr 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 
as formed out of the Blackhawk Chapter a year and a half ago.  The goal was to 
romote the reading and writing of Braille by meeting weekly to do both reading 
nd writing together.  
Last fall, the NFB Braille Readers Are Leaders contest sponsored, for the first 
ime, an adult category -- and also a team category.  The ABLE Group decided to 
nter the contest as a team, with five people on the team:  Bob Gardner, Lois 
ontgomery, Jana Hergert, Patrick Olson, and Jean Rauschenbach.  We set a team 
oal 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 
eader in the Beginner adult category (80 words per minute or less), reading 
round 3000 pages in the two months of the contest.  And of course, our 
ollective 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 
ound a plaque and some paperwork -- all that telling that the ABLE Group had 
een selected as the "Team of the Year" award!  Wow, what a surprise, and what 
n honor.  
Once again, Illinois rocks!  
Bob
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