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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'>Trudy, I am going to send a save the date email to some of our blind guys that will be great for this event. Then we can sort through to see who we want to go where, either with the parents or the children. This is very exciting! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'>Thanks! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'>Amy C. Phelps </span><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'>410-737-2642<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'>Check out information about our summer youth program: <a href="http://bism.org/r_youth_TEMP_2.cfm"><span style='color:#3333CC'>Independence 2011</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'>Help sponsor our youth program activities <a href="https://npo.networkforgood.org/Donate/Donate.aspx?npoSubscriptionId=1003647"><span style='color:#3333CC'>Donate</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'>Take the NCLB at BISM in Baltimore on March 26. For information: <a href="http://www.nbpcb.org/pages/NCLBcertification.php"><span style='color:#3333CC'>National Certification in Literary Braille </span></a></span><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#3333CC'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0in'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#333333'>"...given proper training and opportunity, the average blind person can do the average job in the average place of business and do it as well as his or her sighted neighbor..." Freedom for the Blind, James H. Omvig</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'>Confidentiality Note: </span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'>The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer.</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Trudy Pickrel [mailto:tlpickrel@hotmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 11, 2011 1:33 PM<br><b>To:</b> MDPOBC; Amy Phelps; Melissa Riccobono<br><b>Subject:</b> Preliminary forms<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Dear Board Members<br> <br>Time is flying by and we are working hard on the Workshop for April 30. It is shapping up to even more then I could amagine. I am getting so excited about the training opportunities for the parents and kids too. <br> <br>Susan and Amy have help me put together these flyers and forms so far. We have decided to go with "Be OK with Blindness" 2nd annual. So that when people see this workshop in the future they will remember the great experince and recomend it to other parents. <br> <br>I am asking your help on a couple of things we are now having to put together our instructors. and find great mentors that will follow thru with families to be there to answer question. Instructors in the kitchen, educators to help in the homework workshop and O&M to help with cane travel.<br><br></span><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>Trudy L. Pickrel</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br></span><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>President MD Parents of Blind Children</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br></span><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>301-387-4182</span></strong><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>301-501-1818</span></strong></span></b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'><br></span><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:purple'><a href="http://www.tlcbythelake.weebly.com/" target="_blank">www.tlcbythelake.weebly.com</a></span></strong><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:purple'><br><br><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></b></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#C00000'>There is a Braille literacy crisis in America.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:purple'> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#C00000'>only 10% blind Children being taught Braille</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:purple'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#C00000'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:purple'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#C00000'>You can be part of the solution.</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:purple'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#C00000'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:purple'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#C00000'>Buy a Louis Braille Commemorative coin at <a href="http://www.nfb.org/" target="_blank">www.nfb.org</a></span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:purple'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br><br><br> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><hr size=3 width="100%" align=center id=stopSpelling></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:54:43 -0800<br>From: <a href="mailto:sepolansky@verizon.net">sepolansky@verizon.net</a><br>Subject: forms<br>To: <a href="mailto:tlpickrel@hotmail.com">tlpickrel@hotmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>I have attached the flier, registration form, and child care form. I am not so sure about the afternoon sessions I put in blue, are they for the adults and there will be concurrent sessions for youth? If there are concurrent sessions for the youth in the afternoon then we should try to get that on the flier. Also I am not great at forms so the format may need to be cleaned up. <br>Let me know what you think. If you are ok with the changes I would send them on to Amy, maybe she or someone at BISM can check the format and see if the format is okay. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Susan <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>