[Massachusetts-NFB] IMPORTANT UPDATE: Police cadets for travel for Central Square Senior Center meeting

[Amalia Alexandre]

I’m ok with it and i will see you next week

On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 9:31 AM Helen Kobek via Massachusetts-NFB <
massachusetts-nfb at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hi, folks,
> I've heard back from Community Relations Police. They have run this
> quickly up the flagpole to the Commissioner and the following is in
> process, to be confirmed:
> Two uniformed Police cadets (unarmed, unbadged) will be positioned at 5:30
> pm, as follows: One in front of Starbucks, and one in front of CVS. The
> Starbucks group will cross the street and pick up the group in front of
> CVS, and head down at 5:40 to the Senior Center. The cadets will go back to
> the T meeting locations, sweeping to see if there are late-comers who might
> wish escort. At 7:45pm the same cadets will meet the group, escort back to
> the T stops, in reverse order, and go to both stations. I will have the
> names of the cadets to post here before the meeting, and we are just asked
> to let the police know of cancellations for any reason.
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> I wish to be clear that I don't assume everyone will want to make use of
> it. I also want to be clear that this option - if it's available - is not
> to be degrading of anyone's blindness. The option can be discussed by the
> chapter if you feel led next week. (I felt an urgency on this until I
> realized it's not until next week, so there's some space to range this.) If
> NFB decides not to have this option, that's fine, too. I know that NFB has
> a strong sense of independence.
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> If anyone is annoyed with me for being protective, that's fine. LOL.
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> I will confirm here when it's a done deal, but, given how quickly it was
> run up to the Commissioner, I trust it's done. They will have a meeting to
> visit all of this this afternoon. I'm grateful to the police for being so
> quick and respectful.
>
> Kindest regards, yours in blindness (smiling)
> Helen
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