[Nfbf-l] Christmas Party

Sun Dec 14 17:43:07 UTC 2008

Dear Mark,

I understand your transportation issue in Martin County.
I have a suggestion for you.
A chapter grant to cover providing transportation, for your chapter, to 
meetings, special events, like State Convention and other things the chapter 
feels are important to attend.
There is a source that serves Martin and most of Palm Beach County.  It is 
called the Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation.
They can provide up to $50,000.00 per grant, even buying a vehicle if 
needed.
You could contract with a local transportation provider company to give you 
the service your chapter needed.
I have even done this for my chapter in the past.
At one time, our chapter got a grant that provided a van and driver, each 
month, to pick up and bring in, our members and do most anything else we 
needed for that day that involved transportation.
It paid for the driver, with a nice tip, the gas, the insurance, the van and 
even let us rent other vans when we needed more than one, such as when we 
took 21 members to a state convention in Orlando for 3 days.
If you would like to hear more and work on a grant to do this, just write me 
back.
I Think that the next due date for submitting a grant to Lost Tree is coming 
up soon and now would be the right time to do it.
The Florida State Convention is going to be held at the Embassy Suites Hotel 
in Boca Raton in May.
This could give you a way to bring everyone of your members to the 
convention and even get them to and from your chapter meetings for a year.
It could let you and your members attend Public Hearings to press your 
County  Commissioners for more funding for better Public Transportation, so 
you guys have a better way to get to work and just get around in general.
Let me know.We need to get on it right away as the due date is soon and I am 
going away for my first guide dog on Feb. 8,2009.

David Evans, NFBF
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark" <markspark at bellsouth.net>
To: "NFB of Florida Listserv" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] Christmas Party

> It was quite fun.  Also, I have ordered a medium package from the National
> Office for the Louis Braille events.  I am not sure quite when this will
> happen for us, but I am making calls and will certainly call Barnes and
> Noble at the Treasure Coast Mall this coming week.
> Mark Tardif
> You can't hug your loved ones with nuclear arms
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sherrill O'Brien" <sherrill.obrien at verizon.net>
> To: "NFB of Florida Listserv" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 2:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] Christmas Party
>
>
>> Mark,
>> Sounds as if your chapter did themselves proud in the party department!
>> Thanks for sharing your good cheer with the rest of us!
>>
>> Sherrill
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfbf-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbf-l-bounces at nfbnet.org]On
>> Behalf Of Mark
>> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 8:54 PM
>> To: NFB of Florida Listserv
>> Subject: [Nfbf-l] Christmas Party
>>
>>
>> Well, fellow Federationists, we just had our Martin County Chapter
>> Christmas
>> party, the first of many, I hope.  It was nice.  Our secretary just took
>> the
>> bull by the horns and made calls to make sure everyone was bringing
>> something.  It was a pot luck with ham, turkey, garlic mashed potatoes,
>> yams, raw vegies, and dessert and coffee and soda.  We had a grab bag at
>> the
>> end and a split the pot raffle as we do at all our meetings.  Our vice
>> president brought out an instrument called an omniboard and played and
>> sang
>> carols we sang along to.  It was nice too because we had a new potential
>> member and someone who just joined last month, and we invited our reader,
>> Sharon, and her two children, one of whom is blind.  I'd say it went
>> rather
>> well.  It was great, too, that considering what our transportation
>> situation
>> is like here, people who are sighted, even one who is not yet a member 
>> but
>> whom we invited, pitched in and drove people.
>> Mark Tardif
>> You can't hug your loved ones with nuclear arms
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