[New-york-news] You Are Invited, to the One Year Anniversary Party for the NFB of Rochester,

[Heather Bird]

If you are coming from out-of-town and need any information related to
Greyhound Bus, Amtrak or air travel, please contact me and I will try to
help. If a lot of people are all coming in on the same flight, or train, Jim
or another sighted individual may be able to pick up a number of people at
once, as our van seats seven, including the driver.

 

Please join us for our Summer Celebration of our One Year Anniversary as the
Rochester Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind of New York.

 

When? Saturday, August 12th 2017 from 10:00 A.M. until 6:00 P.M. as an
open-house format. Lunch will be served at mid-day and the open-house format
has been selected to give individuals as much or as little party as they
desire and to allow any visitors from out of town to have a fair-sized chunk
of time with us, even if their travel arrangements cause them to arrive
rather late or necessitate them departing quite early.

 

Where? The party will be held in the Webster park in the Ridge Hill shelter.
The street address for the park is 255 Holt Road Webster New York 14580. For
those coming from out of town, Webster is a suburb of the city of Rochester
and is not far from the city. Once your cab, Lift or Uber driver enters the
park based on the street address, they can simply look for the Ridge Hill
shelter. It is a large pavilion with several picnic tables inside, and we
will have signs up for our event at the shelter so it should be easily
spotted by whoever is providing your transportation. No, there is not RTS
Access, para-transit access to this park. The only two parks available that
met our needs were not within the service area. For those coming from out of
town, this does not affect you as you would have to take Uber or similar
anyway. For those in our area, a cost cutting suggestion, if I May? Consider
meeting up with two to four people at one location using para-transit, then
split the cost of one Uber or Lift to get to the party.

 

Who? All members of NFB Rochester are invited. The Rochester Pioneers, our
local Beep Baseball team is also invited in its entirety. All members of NFB
New York are also invited, from any chapter or division. To all NFB members
local, or from out of town, please feel free to invite friends, family
members or co-workers who would enjoy a party and who would benefit from
having a positive experience along with many of their blind friends and
neighbors. Families of blind children are also welcome, so please feel free
to pass this along to parents or guardians of blind children. Families and
children are welcome. This is not a child-centered event, but we have
half-priced tickets at $10 for children, which include the same great
Dinosaur Barbecue food and Cheesy Eddy’s cheesecake, there is a playground
in the park for kids to visit, kids can enjoy watching the service dog
costume contest, and if they are blind or visually impaired, they are
welcome to participate in the decorate your cane contest, and a few things
will be planned for the kids specifically. Of course, all service dogs are
welcome, and if you do use a guide or other type of service dog, please see
below for details on the costume contest. Blindness professionals from any
agency are also welcome to join us for this event, so you may reach out as
you wish to invite such individuals.

 

Why?

We will have a delicious lunch from the Dinosaur Barbecue, a great local
barbecue restaurant that has expanded beyond Rochester into some other
locations in New York State, featuring two different meat offerings, two
tasty sides and corn bread as well.

Sumptuous cheese cake from Cheesy Eddy’s another amazing local business that
makes unique and rich flavors of delectable cheese cake.

Tasty home-made offerings from some of our members available all-day before
and after our main meal is served.

A decorate your white cane contest, in which you can decorate your cane
however you wish. You pay $2 to enter the contest, and the winner collects
half the proceeds from the contest as a prize and the rest goes to benefit
our young chapter as it grows. Blind kiddos and adults are welcome to enter,
as are guide dog users who also use a white cane, and if a sighted
individual wishes to decorate a blind friend’s old spare cane, they may
enter as well.

A service/guide dog costume contest: Dress up your guide or other type of
service dog and compete for a prize. As in the decorate your cane contest,
it is $2 to enter, and the winner will receive half of the proceeds, with
the other half going towards our chapter. Current and retired guides are
eligible to enter. You may dress up along with your dog for a team costume,
or simply dress up your dog, as a character from a book or film, an animal
from the zoo, a vehicle, another type of professional dog, your imagination
is the limit.

A number of fun raffles: We will be selling tickets for a 50-50 style
raffle, as well as holding a Chinese Auction to raffle off themed baskets of
fun and interesting items.

Other fun games and contests: We may have a horse-race similar to that held
at the New York State convention last year and at the Buffalo chapter’s
summer party. We will have a blind/sighted team contest where-in each team
consists of one blind and one sighted participant who must work together to
complete a series of fun tasks. Yes, there will be a grand prize for this
event as well. And other fun activities.

A Beep Baseball Demonstration and short just-for-fun game: Courtesy of the
Rochester Pioneers we will have a demonstration of Beep Baseball techniques
followed by an opportunity for anyone who wishes to try out this sport as we
play a short game to get a feel for what it is like. If you wish to
participate, please come dressed comfortably, given that you will be running
and also will be getting down on the ground at times.

 

Two important notes:

A.      Tickets are $20 per person, $10 per child, kids under two years of
age are of course free. This includes the main meal provided by Dinosaur
Barbecue, dessert from Cheesy Eddy’s, the cost of the park space,
refreshments prior to and following the meal and the Beep Baseball
demonstration. Please contact our Treasurer, Candice, at
Candice.attrill at gmail.com <mailto:Candice.attrill at gmail.com>  to make
payment via PayPal, or by sending a check or money order in the mail. Please
send payment by August 5th.

B. Please RSVP if you will be joining us, and let us know how many people
will be attending. This is necessary so that we can order the correct
amounts

 

Heather Bird

"They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't
a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I
wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a
Protestant.

Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up." -
Martin Niemöller

In our diverse society we must never fail to speak up in the face of Human
Rights violations lest we be the next targets of such violations.

 

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