[Md-sligo] Chapter meeting and other news

[Deborah]

The chapter meeting this Saturday will be at the Long Branch library, 8800
Garland Avenue, at 1:30.  I know that there is a forecast for snow, but we
will plan to meet unless something serious materializes.  We have many
things to do, so if the library is open and MetroAccess is running, we will
have a meeting.If I ever decide to cancel a chapter meeting, I will  do so
by 9:00 on the day of the meeting, and I will try to call everyone.  

Our new NFB of Maryland president, Ronza Othman, will be coming to the
meting on Saturday.

We have several events in January.  

January 19-Louis Braille birthday.  We will play games and demonstrate
braille products.  It will be at the Davis Library, 6400 Democracy
Boulevard, Bethesda.  The event will be from 2:00 to 4:00, but if you are
coming to help out, be there by 1:00.

January 24-Day in Annapolis.  We will leave from Glenmont or New Carrollton
at 7:00 and return to New Carrollton at 8 p.m.  We will be walking around
the House and Senate buildings and talking to legislators.   We will discuss
the issues on Saturday.  Please let me know by then if you plan to go.

Monday, January 28-Great gathering-in meeting of the Washington Seminar.
People from all over the country will gather at the Holiday Inn Capitol, 550
C Street S.W., in Washington, DC.  The meeting is from 5:00 to 7:00 in the
evening.  There will be a legislative seminar and other events in the
afternoon.  Fact sheets about the issues are on the NFB's website.

Tuesday, January 29-Appointments on Capitol Hill and evening reception. I
will let you know about the appointments as they are scheduled.  The
reception will be in the Capitol Visitors Center from 5:30 to 7:00.  I will
let you know more about that as we get closer to the time.

Saturday, April 6--Bid for Opportunity.  This will be at the
VFW-Morningside, where we were last year.  Tickets will be $40.  We will
need auction items and people to buy them.

The Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped is competing for an
award of $35,000.  If we read and log our reading hours, we can help the
library get the money.  Library patrons must read for 50,000 minutes.  You
can sign up at marylandlbph.beanstack.org or call LaShawn Miles at
410-230-2455.

If you have not paid dues, please do it for the year.  Dues are $5.

We have nuts left.  The kinds we have are butter toffee nuts, $2.50; Jeppi
#82 mix, $3.00; Baltimore bar mix, $3.50; nut and fruit mix, $3.50;
pistachios, $6.00; and mixed nuts, $6.00.  Please buy them.

I hope to see all of you on Saturday so that we can start the New Year in
motion.

Debbie

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