[Md-sligo] Chapter picnic and other news

[Laura S. Havard]

Debbie,

I unfortunately won't be able to attend either activity since I will be on
my way to CA for a week in the Sun and fun.

Laura

 

 

From: md-sligo-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:md-sligo-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Brown, Debbie
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 1:28 PM
To: Sligo Creek Chapter list, NFB of Maryland
Subject: [Md-sligo] Chapter picnic and other news

 

The chapter picnic will be on August 25 at Barbara Kean's house, 19109
Bayswater Road, in Gaithersburg.  

 

On that day, there will also be a nationwide informatiional picket of
Goodwill stores from 11 to 1:00.  We have not yet made the decision about
which store we will picket.  I will give you more details about how this
will work out.  We will make arrangements about managing the picnic and
making sure picnic food gets to the picnic.  If you want to picket with us,
we will be carrying signs and talking to people about subminimum wage work.
If you want to participate, you should be able to stand and walk in whatever
weather we have that day for two hours.  

 

I would like to thank everyone who has been helping with the BELL program.
Thanks to Yasmin, Janice, Lloyd, Tom, Barbara, and Judy for serving as
volunteers and teaching blindness-related lessons.  We received help from
Ava Ferebee, Harold Hays, Ray Smith, and Sharon Maneki.  Judy has worked
especially hard as materials and logistics coordinator to make sure that
people and materials are where they are supposed to be.  Unless you have
worked with the program, you have no idea how much stuff is required to put
this on.  Also, continuous communication with parents and teachers is
required.  We have a wonderful bunch of students, and we have met some
people we would not otherwise have known--and we will be thinking about next
year.  Because we are a little wiser now, we will be distributing more jobs,
and we hope not so much will be put on one person's shoulders as happened
this year.  

 

Thank you all!

 

Debbie

 

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