[NFB-NM] FW: October 15 Declared White Cane Awareness Day By Governor Lujan Grisham

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From: Trapp, Greg, CFB <Greg.Trapp at cfb.nm.gov> 
Sent: Tuesday, October 8, 2024 10:47 AM
Subject: October 15 Declared White Cane Awareness Day By Governor Lujan
Grisham
 
 
Governor Lujan Grisham has declared October 15 as White Cane Awareness Day.
The proclamation is attached in both PDF and Word versions and pasted below.

 
Greg
 
Greg Trapp, JD
Executive Director
New Mexico Commission for the Blind
2200 Yale Blvd SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
505-383-2231
 
STATE OF NEW MEXICO EXECUTIVE OFFICE SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO
 
Proclamation
  WHEREAS, New Mexico enacted The White Cane Law in 1967, becoming the first
state in the nation
  to adopt the model white cane law; and
WHEREAS, The White Cane Law, 28-7-1 NMSA (1978), declares that it is the
policy of the State to encourage and enable persons who are blind or have
low vision to participate fully in the social and economic life of the
state, and to engage in remunerative employment; and
WHEREAS, The White Cane Law gives persons who are blind or have low vision
the same rights as all citizens to the full and free use of the streets,
highways, sidewalks, walkways, public buildings, public facilities, and
other public places; and
WHEREAS, The White Cane Law gives persons who are blind or have low vision
full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of all
common carriers, airplanes, motor vehicles, railroad trains, motor buses,
streetcars, boats, any other public conveyances or modes of transportation,
hotels, lodging places, places of public accommodation, amusement or resort,
and any other places to which the public is invited; and
WHEREAS, The White Cane Law requires that drivers shall take all necessary
precautions to avoid injury to pedestrians who are using a white cane or a
guide dog; and
WHEREAS, it is important for all New Mexicans to be aware of The White Cane
Law; to be aware that persons who are blind or have low vision use the white
cane to travel on public streets, roads, and at places of public
accommodation; to be aware that persons with disabilities have much to offer
and that their energy, creativity, and hard work greatly strengthens our
state and our economy; and to recognize that the white cane is an instrument
of safety and independence for persons who are blind or have low vision.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Michelle Lujan Grisham, Governor of New Mexico, do hereby
proclaim October 15, 2024, as:
"White Cane Awareness Day"
                throughout the state of New Mexico.
           Attest:
Done at the Executive Office this
 
19th day of September 2024.
                Maggie Toulouse Oliver
                Secretary of State
 
Witness my hand and the Great Seal
 
of the State of New Mexico.
                                                                      
 
Michelle Lujan Grisham Governor
 
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