[Nfbf-l] Fwd: 4th annual NFB Blind Community Picnic Jacksonville

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Gina, Let Vicki and I know when You and Joe are having it next year in time 
for us to plan to visit! Your Friend, Kirk

Kirk Harmon
1031 Lenmore Ct.
Orlando, FL. 32812

Phone:
Office: 1-407-380-3371
Cell: 1-407-473-2176
BVA/FRG
District Director
E. central Division

BVA/FRG
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City of Orlando
Mayor's Advisory Counsil
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"Blinded Veteran's Helping Blinded Veteran's"
"Smiles are nothing more than 30 second cvacations"!
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Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 9:52 PM
Subject: [Nfbf-l] Fwd: 4th annual NFB Blind Community Picnic Jacksonville

Hello everyone
Last Saturday, May 2nd, the Jacksonville Chapter hosted our 4th annual Blind 
Community Picnic. Lenora Marten wrote a spectacular narrative with pictures 
included below. This picnic has become a much loved event for the blind 
community in Jacksonville. It is so great to hear how much people look 
forward to it. If you are looking for a way to attract membership, this is 
it. We gained two member from the last picnic. One couple who came last year 
recently started coming to our meetings, volunteered for the picnic and are 
coming to the convention. I had two people join while at the picnic. I 
received a phone from another two that want to join and are coming to our 
next meeting. Another call wanted to learn more about the chapter. One 
person,
"This is great! What else does the NFB do?" Boy, can we show him. I know we 
have work to be done, but we have to make the NFB fun.
Please read on for Lenora's highlights.

Gina Minichiello, Board Member
National Federation of the Blind of Florida
Treasurer, Greater Jacksonville Chapter
minichiellog at comcast.net

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Subject: 4th ANNUAL NFB BLIND COMMUNITY PICNIC HIGHLIGHTS

Good Morning All -

Our 4th Annual NFB Blind Community Picnic was a resounding SUCCESS!! Diane 
Sapiro and Joe Minichiello were there to greet and welcome 83 guests with 
smiles, hand shakes and even some hugs.

Activities took off at 10:30 a.m. with Eric and Patricia announcing Bingo to 
over 30 of our early morning guests in a nicely cooled activity room. 
Numbers and letters were called, prizes were given and FUN was had by all 
who participated.

Jay and Joan did a stupendous job manning the snow cone machine. YUMMY!

Robin...... dude..... WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN HIDING???? I had no idea you could 
sing like that! Robin Plitt brought his guitar and sound equipment, 
serenading us with songs like Margaritaville. FABULOUS!

New and old friends bonded under the clear blue Jacksonville sunshine. 
Children played in the grass. PERFECT!

JEFF - Chefs on Food Network could take a lesson from you! YOU are the BBQ 
Master!! Chapter members, I simply cannot tell you how many positive 
comments we had about our marvelous, tasty food. Some of the comments were - 
"Best hamburgers I've ever tasted!", "I didn't know hot dogs could taste 
this good!", and many, many requests for seconds.

Furthermore, our guests truly appreciated the extra time and care we took to 
wear gloves while serving. It's these extra touches that show the blind 
community that NFB Jacksonville Chapter simply...... CARES!!

Afternoon Trivia had us racking our brains and competing for answers. 
Brandon, our Trivia announcer was AWESOME! Who knew that Canada's coast line 
was longer than ours???
The results of that question now give Eric Marten, youngest chapter member 
and brainiac in the making, the power to say "Told you So!" to his Dad. 
PRICELESS!!

Of course, none of this would have been possible without the pre-planning, 
behind the scenes efforts of our picnic committee, their spouses and 
friends. Every time I looked around, I found Marita patiently helping 
someone with everything from drinks to giving directions, answering 
questions and most importantly, lending an ear. She and her husband Michael 
went above and beyond with a generous donation of table and chair rental in 
addition to organizing the kids games. Hats off to Jay for providing toys 
for the kids. Corey and Terry did a wonderful job securing the donation of 
six cases of bottled water from Costco, ten $20 gift cards from Woodchucks 
Country Store, and 12 hats from Atlas Lighting. Their friend Rob was there 
from beginning to end lending a hand at everything from running errands, 
patrolling garbage, and serving food. Don Adams donations of 100 hamburger 
buns, 100 hot dog buns and aluminum serving trays was greatly appreciated. 
Gina - organizer extraordinaire - booked the park, snow cone machine, prizes 
for kids, NFB banner & literature, bingo cards, coordinated Trivia - the 
list is endless! Joe & Gina's neighbor, Andy Buist was also there from 
beginning to end making ice runs, helping with the serving line and 
transporting supplies. Andy Rood came early to lend support wherever needed. 
Larry & I did the pre-shopping pricing and then shopped at Sam's Club and 
Winn Dixie, chopped lettuce, onion & tomato, transported and organized the 
food, helped with bingo, Trivia, serving & clean-up.

Lenora

Picnic Committee -

Gina Minichiello
Board Member NFBF
Treasurer NFB-JAX
Event Coordinator
minichiellog at comcast.net

Lenora Marten
Secretary NFB-JAX
Board Member NFBF-Parents
bluegolfshoes at aol.com

Marita Winston
Board Member NFB-JAX
maritawinston at bellsouth.net

Corey Glassner
cstlg at yahoo.com

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