[Nebraska-senior-blind] NFBN Senior Division - agenda and handout for Convention Meeting

Thu Sep 29 05:09:11 UTC 2016

Brad and I will be at Convention.

We'll be glad to offer people clickers. 

Concerning the list, Adminstration should be Administration. 

Talking Book and Braille Service isn't plural. 

I don't know if there is still an Area Agency on Aging in the state. In
Lincoln, what used to go by that name is now called Aging Partners. The
number listed here is different from the one generally offered in the Living
Well magazine (which used to be Lifelines, available on cartridge through
Talking Book and Braille Service) The number they usually reference is
402-441-7070. 

The place that sells ScripTalk also sells a bar code scanner, which is very
useful for identifying grocery and other items. Both ScripTalk and the bar
code scanner are available to veterans free of charge.  The company is
EnVision America. The word of isn't part of its name. 

The drugstore you mentioned in Lincoln is now A Street Market, if it's the
one I think you are referencing. 

Homestead National Monument has High Way. Highway is one word. We may want
to add that it has features that allow nonvisual access and participation. 

We could mention that National Braille Press offers Braille/Print books for
children, how-to and other information and Braille calipers. 

I'm not sure anyone these days still thinks of Learning Ally as RFB&D. 

The Hadley information has the word impaired misspelled. We don't say what
it offers. 

BookShare is another provider of reading material that we don't mention
here. I don't know how many seniors use it. I'm one who sometimes does. 

Some entries are starred. Is there a reason for that?

That is my quick once-over. 

Thank you for all you do. I don't mean to be nitpicky. I'm a detail person
and if someone asks me to look something over and comment I do it. That
being said, it's late and I may very well have missed something. 

Barbara 

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Hi you all

3 things:

#1 Who is going to convention! Respond to this message, making it very clear
either way, that you are or are not going.

#2 For Those who are going, I need to get you a handful or two of our
fund-raiser items. They are noise makers,  clickers.  (In the catalog, they
are called Insect Clickers., We are selling them for one dollar; We paid 1
dollar for three of them. 

Once, years back, the Student division sole this very same noise maker, at a
convention that happen in the same hotel building we will be in.
Conventioneers would use the clicker to sound off, instead of clapping, and
making other joyful sounds. It will create a memorable experience; many who
were there for that first students innovation, do remember the convention,
because of the clickers.

#3 Also attached to this message is, an  updated list of state & national
resources that we, the division first put together back in 2013. And so I
have been updating it. I've called nearly all the numbers, and checked
names, and website addresses. Yes, I did find several wrong items, and made
the appropriate changes to our list. See if you can think of any other
resources we need to add. And sure, look at our list, with an eye to find
any other corrections that we need to make, please.

We'll have to have a few print copies, and if possible, a few in
Braille.electronic for sure. Maybe need to post this on our webpage. Plus,
it will go on the next cartridge going out to current members who do not
have email.

Respectfully yours,

Robert Leslie Newman

NFBN Senior Division, President

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