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

[Cathy Randall]

Congradulations!
  To all FIVE of you for your great efforts in winning this national award.

                                                                             
    Warmest Regards,
                                                                             
Cathy Randall
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> Great job, everyone!
>
> Kathy Abbott
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> From: Robert Gardner <rgardner4 at gmail.com>
> To: il-talk <il-talk at nfbnet.org>; Deb Endrizzi <dndrzz at hotmail.com>; Deb 
> Smith <debraasmith at copper.net>; Beth & Kaitlyn Ryan <kryan99 at hotmail.com>; 
> Katie Adams <kadams04 at hotmail.com>; Josh Mitton 
> <josh_mitton20 at hotmail.com>; Kathy Abbott <kelley2107 at aol.com>; Cheri 
> Jirele <cjirele at gmail.com>; Nancy Gardner <rngard1061 at mchsi.com>; John 
> Statz <starlog at verizon.net>; Lisa Stier <lisa0957 at aol.com>; Jo Ellen 
> Riordan <joellen.riordan at yahoo.com>; John TeBockhorst 
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> Bingman <jbingman at choosethechief.com>; Dave Jirele <djirele at gmail.com>; 
> Patrick Olson <1ofakind26 at gmail.com>; Jay Miller <j50 at mchsi.com>; Alfonso 
> Ayew-ew <blindils at iicil.com>; Jana Hergert <determinator80 at yahoo.com>; 
> Linda Jasper <linj22 at hotmail.com>; Lois Montgomery <lmm3527 at aol.com>; Pat 
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> Sent: Mon, Apr 19, 2010 10:14 am
> Subject: [il-talk] ABLE Group is "Team of the Year"!
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> 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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