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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Our chapter meeting will be on Saturday, March 9, at the Long</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Branch library, 8800 Garland Avenue. This will be the last month we will meet at this library. Next month’s meeting will be at the Whiteoak Library.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">We have a few fundraising activities coming up. First of all, we have raffle tickets for the state of Maryland’s</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">fundraiser. Tickets cost $5. If your number is drawn throughout the month of May, you get $50, unless it is on Saturday, in which case you get $100. Pleas</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">e let me know how many tickets you want. Janice and Terry, I have your pre-selected numbers.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">We still have a few bags of nuts left. We have one bag of pistachios, a few bags of butter toffee peanuts, and a few more bags of Jeppi #82 mix and Baltimore bar mix. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">We have some candy to sell. We have some from Sees and some from World’s Finest Chocolate. We did things that way because we wanted to see how each kind did. We will not buy from</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">two companies next year because the cost is too high to do that. Here is what we have.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">From Sees:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Milk chocolate bars, $2.50 a bar, 24 bars to a box,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">$60 a box.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Extra dark (62%) chocolate bars, $2.50 a bar, 24 bars in a box, $60 a box.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Peanut britt</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">le, $2 a bar, 8 bars in a box, $16 a box.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">From World’s Finest Chocolate</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> (we will probably split these cases)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Mint Meltaways, $2.00.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Chocolate-covered almonds, $2.50.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The mint meltaways are individually wrapped,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">with a bout 15 to a box. The almonds are a larger box. The mint meltaways come in a case of 30,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">which comes to a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> total of $60. The almonds come in a case of 60, which is heavy and hard to carry. We</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">might package them in bags of 20, which comes to $50 a bag.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">n about a month, we will be having our Bidding for Opportunity dinner and auction in Suitland, Maryland. Tickets are</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">$40. Please bring money for your own ticket on Saturday, and if you have fri</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">i</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">nds who are coming, bring their money if you can. Queen has already paid for a table of 8. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">In addition to people to bid, we need items to bid on, so let us know what you will be bringing.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The conv</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ention is also coming up. I have group tickets for $</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">4</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">09. We will leave at 6:30 in the morning from BWI and arrive in Las Vegas at</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">8:30 Pacific time. We will leave Las Vegas at 8:10 in the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">m</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">orning on July 13 and arrive at BWI at 3:45 our time. There are two other group flights that leave in the evening and cost</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">up to $50 less. They are also nonstop. If you are interested in any of those, let me know and I will get you in touch with Amber Woods. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Amber is in charge of those groups, and she has the right to set her own policies of what kind of payment to take when. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">We w</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ill have a membership ceremony sometime</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">probably in early summer. I told the president we needed to work on our pledge</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, so we will say it at every meeting. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I pledge to participate actively in the efforts of the National Federation of the Blind to achieve equality,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">opportunity, and</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">security, for the blind; to support</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">t</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">h</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">e</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> p</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">okicies and programs of the Federation; and to abide by its constitution.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Debbie</FONT></SPAN></P>
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