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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Hi all,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Just so you know, the mixed nuts are now gone. We’ll bring some nuts on Saturday.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Judy</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> MD-Sligo <<a href="mailto:md-sligo-bounces@nfbnet.org">md-sligo-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Deborah via MD-Sligo<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 8, 2019 8:01 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Sligo Creek Chapter list, NFB of Maryland' <<a href="mailto:md-sligo@nfbnet.org">md-sligo@nfbnet.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> Deborah <<a href="mailto:deborahb14@verizon.net">deborahb14@verizon.net</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [Md-sligo] Chapter meeting and other news</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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</span> <span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Our new NFB of Maryland president, Ronza Othman, will be coming to the meting on Saturday.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We have several events in January. </span> </p><p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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</span> <span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">the House and Senate buildings</span> <span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">and talking to legislators. </span> <span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> We will discuss the issues on Saturday. Please let me know by then if you plan to go.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Monday, January 28—Great gathering-in meeting of the Washington Seminar. </span> <span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Tuesday,</span> <span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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</span> <span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Visitors Center from 5:30 to 7:00. I will let you know more about that as we get closer to the time.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Saturday, April 6--Bid for Opportunity. </span> <span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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 <a href="http://marylandlbph.beanstack.org">marylandlbph.beanstack.org</a> or call LaShawn Miles at 410-230-2455.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">If you have not paid dues, please do it for the year. Dues are $5.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I hope to see all of you on Saturday so that we can start the New Year in motion.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Debbie</span></p></div></body></html>