[Md-sligo] Chapter meeting and events

Tue Oct 7 12:26:04 UTC 2014

You go Janice: I always look forward to receiving your auction items. We need to really concentrate on inviting people as well.  I don't know if we can top the 80 we had last year, but surely we can at least equal it. Shawn can correct me if I am wrong about this, but our affiliate spends at least $8,000  a year in scholarships.  This does not include what we spend on BELL. In other words, we are an active affiliate and never have money lying around. That is as it should be. See you Saturday!
Judy

From: Md-sligo [mailto:md-sligo-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Janice Toothman via Md-sligo
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 8:16 AM
To: Debbie Brown; Sligo Creek Chapter list, NFB of Maryland
Subject: Re: [Md-sligo] Chapter meeting and events

Hi Debbie,
I can work at the Greenbelt Nut Salt.  Please let me know the times.

When will we be able to order nuts and can we pick them up at the nut sale?

I will also send my scholarship list within the next day or two.  I have to decide what I want to bake.
Janice
On 10/6/2014 11:35 PM, Debbie Brown via Md-sligo wrote:
The chapter meeting will be this Saturday, October 11.  We will have a presentation on Odin mobile phones, which are usable and available to blind people.  If you meet certain income requirements, you may get these phones free.  Many low-income people can get a phone through special programs, but none of the phones available are accesible to the blind.

We have a busy next few months of events.  Here are some of them, for our chapter and state affiliate.

Tuesday, October 14:  From 4:00 to 9:00 p.m., we will be at Uno's, 4001 Town Center Boulevard,  Bowie, MD 20716.  If you and your friends buy dinner and mention that you are helping the National Federation of the Blind Sligo Creek chapter, we will get 10% of the cost of your meal.  You can increase our donations by taking an order home for tomorrow;.

Nuts will be in on Monday.  We are selling 2 new kinds of nuts, and we are dropping some that were not selling well.  We have a nut sale scheduled at the Greenbelt '
giant, 6000 Greenbelt Road, on October 18.

The dinner for our scholarship fund is on Friday, October 24.  We are getting some nice auction items, but we would like a few more.  Five people have paid so far.  The cost is $30 a person.  If you want to reserve a table, you should pay $240 by October 17.

On October 25, the Friends of the Library will have a presentation honoring volunteers.  Their speaker will be Tony Pann, a Baltimore weather forecaster who \has written a children's book.  This is from 10:00 to noon and will be at the library, 415 Park Avenue in Baltimore.

Also on October 25, the National Harbor chapter will have a resource day at Colmar Manor Town Hall, 3701 Lawrence Street, Colmar Manor.  They will have an emphasis on health issues, but there will be other services that you can check out.

On November 1 we will begin a new Braille Rocks club.  We will be working with young children who were with us in the BELL program.

Our state convention will be November 15-17.  Please plan to be there.  We will be leaving from New Carrollton at 8:00 Friday morning, November 14.

As you can see, this is a busy time.  There will be a few opportunities to help us fundraise and get publicity for us.

Debbie

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