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

[Patti Gregory-Chang]

Congrats.  This is amazing and awesome.  Thanks for keeping IL and the 
Blackhawk chapter proud and on the map.

Don't forget to send some pictures sso we can update our FB page.

To sponsor me in the race for independence which raises funds for the 
Imagination Fund affiliated with the NFB Jernigan Institute, you can go to 
www.raceforindependence.org.  Help us build innovative programs and products 
to gain true independence.    For more information on NFB, the Jernigan 
Institute and the Imagination Fund, go to www.nfb.org.


P.S.  National Federation of the Blind of Illinois is now on twitter at 
www.twitter.com/nfbi.
We also have a facebook page.  Just search for our full name.

Patti Gregory-Chang
President, National Federation of the Blind of Illinois
pattichang at att.net
www.nfbofillinois.org
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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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