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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Our Rochester Chapter of the NFBNY will be holding a Red Cross CPR, First Aid, and EEDs certification. It will take place on a Sunday, late in April, or early in May, and it is a 6 hour course. It will be at least $90 per person. It may be a little more, as we have to cover a $250 instructors’ fee, some of which will come out of the NFB of Rochester treasury, some of which will come out of the RABA treasury, and some of which will be tacked on to the individual cost of the course. The more people sign up, the more defuse the cost is. If you live near Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse, especially, or are willing to travel to Rochester, please email me at <a href="mailto:heather.l.bird@gmail.com">heather.l.bird@gmail.com</a> ASAP and let me know.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Our chapter’s public service committee has arranged for us to participate in the Cure Childhood Cancer 5K Fun Walk and Run, on Saturday, April 27<sup>th</sup>. Again, if anyone living relatively near to Rochester would like to come and join us, it would be great for them to see as many blind runners and walkers out there as possible. Sighted runners can be found to run with you, with a tether or while you work your guide. Just let me know as you are interested. Registration prior to the 31<sup>st</sup> of March is $15, between April 1<sup>st</sup> and the 26<sup>th</sup> is $20, registration on race day is $25.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>We are in the very beginning planning stages for our summer party, to which everyone and anyone in New York state is welcome. However, we need to know all relevant dates that might conflict. It will be on a Saturday or Sunday, so it will not conflict with the BELL program. It will be in late July or in August, so it will not conflict with national, and it will not conflict with the Beep Baseball World Series, so please let us know if there are any chapter, affiliate, or division events with which we need to avoid conflicting.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Heather Bird<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>"They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up." - Martin Niem<span style='layout-grid-mode:line'>öller<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='layout-grid-mode:line'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>