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--></style><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="ecxWordSection1"><p style="text-align: center;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-size: 24pt;"> </span><BR><p style="text-align: center;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><img id="ecxPicture_x0020_1" alt="Description: Description: Description: whozits_K" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CD5F59.D7691A90" width="154" height="111"></span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-size: 24pt;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-size: 24pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 28pt;'>Maryland Parents of Blind Children</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style='font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt;'>Cordially invites:</span></p><p style="text-align: center; text-indent: -0.25in; margin-left: 0.5in;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 16pt;"><span>·<span style='font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'> </span></span></span><span style='font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt;'>All parents<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">, </span>grandparents<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">, </span>and siblings of blind children</span></p><p style="text-align: center; text-indent: -0.25in; margin-left: 0.5in;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 16pt;"><span>·<span style='font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'> </span></span></span><span style='font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt;'>Educators of Blind children</span></p><p style="text-align: center; text-indent: -0.25in; margin-left: 0.5in;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 16pt;"><span>·<span style='font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'> </span></span></span><span style='font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt;'>Others interested in promoting a climate of opportunity for blind children</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style='font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt;'>to an</span><span style='font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 24pt;'></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 28pt;'>Maryland Parents of Blind Children Family Picnic </span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;'>(menu: Hamburgs, Hot Dogs, Coverdish)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 28pt;'>and a</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 28pt;'>Beep Baseball Demonstration </span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt;'> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 28pt;'>Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 28pt;'>2:00 - 7:00p.m.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 28pt;'>Auth Village Park</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt;'><font color="#000000">6186 Baxter Dr, Camp Springs, MD 20746 </font></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt;'> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style='font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt;'>This event has been generously sponsored by the:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 24pt;'>Lions’ Clubs</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt;'> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt;'>Please respond to Trudy at 301-501-1818 or e-mail: <span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:tlpickrel@hotmail.com">tlpickrel@hotmail.com</a> </span>to let us know that you are coming (So we know how much food to have on hand!)</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt;'> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style='font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;'>Maryland Parents of Blind Children goal</span></b><span style='font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;'> is to help blind/visually impaired children grow up to be productive, fully functioning, and independent members of society by providing practical information to their parents and teachers. We are also dedicated to providing ideas, assistance, and information that will help blind/VI children with additional disabilities reach their potential.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p></div><br><strong><font color="#002060">Trudy L. Pickrel<br><font size="3">President MD Parents of Blind Children</font></font></strong><br><font size="3"><font color="#002060"><strong>301-387-4182<br>301-501-1818</strong><br></font></font><font color="#800080" size="4"><strong><a href="http://www.tlcbythelake.weebly.com/" target="_blank">www.tlcbythelake.weebly.com</a></strong></font><br><font color="#800080" size="4"><strong><a href="http://mdparentsofblindchildren.org/" target="_blank">http://mdparentsofblindchildren.org/</a><br></strong></font><font color="#800080" size="4"><strong><div><font color="#c00000" size="2"><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1">Our independence comes from within. A slave can have keen eyesight, excellent mobility, and superb reading skills?and still be a slave. We are achieving freedom and independence in the only way that really counts?in rising self-respect, growing self-confidence, and the will and the ability to make choices. Above all, independence means choices, and the power to make those choices stick.<br> <br>Kenneth Jernigan<br> <br></font> <a href="http://www.nfb.org/" target="_blank">www.nfb.org</a></font></div></strong></font><br></div></div></div> </div></body>
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