[NFB-Utah] The Northern most Weber/Davis chapter game night

[nfbutah at gmail.com]

We in the Weber/Davis northern most NFB chapter in the Utah Affiliate are
inviting all to come and enjoy a November game night again this year like
last November in the same location.  

When: Friday November 14, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. to 8:30  p.m.

Where: Brinli Cherry's home 4544 West 2550 south,  Ogden, Utah  

the chapter will be providing pizza 

Bring what: anything you'd like to snack on, Games you want to play.

 

There are two  special birthday's this month in the Federation November 13
and November 16, 

 

If there are questions about this upcoming activity please email
weberdavisnfb at gmail.com <mailto:weberdavisnfb at gmail.com> 

 

Also take note that our Holiday celebration will be on Saturday December 6,
2025 at 11 a.m. at the Layton Pizza Pie 

 

See below for some of what President Riccobono had to say about the founding
of this organization.

Can't wait to be with  you on the 14th, so many great memories come from
these events to share with each other and many reasons to be thankful.

 

President Riccobono shares some of our history in the October 30, 2025
presidential release 

 

Happy eighty-fifth Federation anniversary. Since November 16, 1940, we've
worked to improve the lives of blind people throughout the country.

 

Everybody who came wanted to have a national organization. It wasn't a
matter of some people having the idea and converting others. The only
discussion

really was over the mechanics of it and how to implement it, set it up. But
everybody was agreed, apparently, before arriving, that the time had come to

set up a national organization. - Dr. Jacobus tenBroek, 1955

 

Blind people from seven states-California, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin-attended that first meeting, which was
held at

the Redington Hotel in Wilkes-Barre, and successfully drafted a constitution
for what would become the first national organization of the blind. 

The original constitution stated that the purpose of the NFB would be to
"promote the economic and social welfare of the blind." Additionally, a
major emphasis of the organization would be to influence national policy in
Washington, DC. 

The NFB was founded on the guiding principles that blind people have an
inalienable right to independence, that blind people have equal capacity,
and that

only blind people themselves can legitimately speak for the blind community.
These principles have continually permeated the membership and structure of

our ever-growing organization.