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<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 28pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'><strong>Maryland Parents of Blind Children</strong></span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font size="4"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'>Cordially invites:</span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><font size="4">
</font><p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal; text-indent: -0.25in;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font size="4"><span style='color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'>·</span><span style='color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'> </span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'>All parents</span><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'>, </span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'>grandparents</span><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'>, </span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'>and siblings of blind children</span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><font size="4">
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children</span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><font size="4">
</font><p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font size="4"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'>to a</span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 28pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'>Maryland Parents of Blind Children
Family Picnic </span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'>(menu: Hamburgers, Hot Dogs, & everyone
favorite Covered dish they want to bring)</span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'>Hamburgers and Hot Dogs, & paper
products provided by MDPOBC</span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 28pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'>and a</span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 28pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'><font style="font-size: 24pt;" size="6">Beep Baseball, Games, Back to School
Supplies </font></span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 28pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'><font color="#ac193d">Saturday, Aug. 24, 2012 </font></span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 28pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'></span><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 28pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'><font style="font-size: 12pt;" color="#ac193d" size="3">(put it on your calendar now)</font></span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 28pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'>2:00 - 7:00p.m.</span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: red; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'>Hammond Park Pavilion (Howard County)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: red; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'>10700 Glen Hannah Dr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: red; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'>Laurel, MD 20723<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'>Please respond to Trudy at
301-501-1818 or e-mail: </span><a href="mailto:tlpickrel@hotmail.com"><span style='color: rgb(0, 114, 198); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; text-underline: none;'>tlpickrel@hotmail.com</span></a><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'>to let us know that you are coming
(So we know how much food to have on hand!)</span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'></span> </p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'></span> </p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'><font size="5">Direction:<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font color="#000000" size="5" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'><font size="5">From Hagerstown, MD: I-70 East At exit 80 take ramp right for
MD-32 South toward How. Co Fairgrounds/West Friendship/Clarksville<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep Straight onto MD-32 2.5 mi. Keep
Straight onto MD-32 S .9mi. Bear right onto MD-32 go 4.5mi. Keep Straight onto
MD-32 E. At exit 16B, take ramp right for US-29 South toward Silver Spring go 1.6mi.
At exit 15, take ramp right for Johns Hopkins Rd toward Gorman Rd. go .4mi.
Turn left onto Johns Hopkins Rd go .2mi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At roundabout, take 1<sup>st</sup> exit go .4mi. Keep straight onto
Gorman Rd go .7mi Turn right onto leishear Rd go .6mi. Turn right onto Glen
Hannah Dr. go .2mi. Arrive at 10700 Glen Hannah Dr. Laurel, MD 20723<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font color="#000000" size="5" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'><o:p><font size="5"> </font></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font color="#000000" size="5" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'><font size="5">From Baltimore: From I-395 S Take ramp Left for 1-95 South
toward Washington go 16.9mi. at exit 35B, take ramp right for MD-216 West
toward Scaggsville go 1.3 mi. Turn right onto Leishear Rd. go .2mi. Turn left
onto Glen Hannah Dr go .2mi. Arrive at 10700Glen Hannah Dr. , Laurel MD<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'>Maryland Parents of Blind Children goal</span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;'> 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><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman">
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<br id="FontBreak"></font><br><br><font size="4"><font color="#5f497a" face="Comic Sans MS"><strong>Trudy L. Pickrel</strong></font><br><strong><font color="#5f497a" face="Comic Sans MS">President</font></strong><br><strong><font color="#5f497a" face="Comic Sans MS">Maryland Parents of Blind Children </font></strong><br><font color="#5f497a" face="Comic Sans MS"><strong><a href="http://www.mdparentsofblindchildren.org" target="_blank">www.mdparentsofblindchildren.org</a></strong><a href="http://www.mdparentsofblindchildren.org" target="_blank"></a></font></font><a href="http://www.mdparentsofblindchildren.org" target="_blank"></a><br><font size="4"><strong><font color="#5f497a" face="Comic Sans MS">301-501-1818</font></strong><br><strong><font color="#5f497a" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"></font></strong></font> <br><strong><font color="#5f497a" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"></font></strong> <br><br><br> </div></body>
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