[Nfbf-l] Fwd: White Cane Safety Day Event In Orlando!!!

Sherri flmom2006 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 11 23:47:10 UTC 2010 

Sounds like you have some great ideas for your chapter. Our elections are 
coming up in November too.
Great job David!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Evans" <drevans at bellsouth.net>
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> Thank You and it is great to hear from you and Joe.
>
> We are trying to get our chapter energized and back on top again.
> We will have a law enforcement  officer at our meeting tomorrow and iron 
> out the details.
> We are going to be getting ready to hold elections in November too to 
> elect some new officers and get our members powered up to do some fund 
> raising and to figure out a way to take everyone who wants to go to the 
> National Convention this next Summer.
>
> David Evans and GD Jack.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joe and Kitty King" <joenkitty at earthlink.net>
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>> David, I am impressed with  the outreach of Palm Beach County.  The 
>> event, should be very informative.
>>
>> Polk Chapter is holding its White Cane & Guide Dog event, tomorrow, 
>> Saturday, October 9.  We, too, will circumvent a busy intersection.  The 
>> City mayor will be present to read the Proclamation and there will be 
>> police , on hand.  Lunch will follow.
>>
>> Take care--and good luck!
>>
>> Kitty
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "David Evans" <drevans at bellsouth.net>
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>>>
>>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> The Palm Beach County Chapter, of the National Federation of the Blind, 
>>> will be staging it's White Cane Safety Day on Friday, October 29, with a 
>>> demonstration at the very busy intersection of Congress Ave. and Forest 
>>> Hill Blvd.
>>> This location will bring us together with no less than 4 police 
>>> departments, who be observing and enforcing the White Cane Law for us. 
>>> We will circumnavigate the intersection, with the change of the lights, 
>>> with our White Canes, Guide Dogs and friends from 10 AM to 1:00 PM.
>>> We will have a Press Conference at Noon and the reading of a 
>>> Proclamation.
>>> The rally address is 1733 South Congress Ave. and there will be an 
>>> information table, chairs and a water station.  Afterwards we will have 
>>> lunch at one of the cafes in the shopping center on the corner.
>>> We will be passing out copies of the White Cane Law to drivers and 
>>> passersby.  We have invited many other groups and organizations to come 
>>> and join us and increase awareness of the White Cane Law.
>>> The TV Media will be in attendance
>>>
>>> On October 16, we will be taking part in our 5TH. annual "Dining in the 
>>> Dark" event in Support of the Florida Outreach Center for the Blind. 
>>> More than 150 people are expected at this years event and honors such as 
>>> the Doctor Thomas Hardig Award will be presented to a deserving Blind 
>>> person who has done great work in our area to advance the lot of Blind 
>>> People .
>>> On October 5, We will be receiving a Proclamation from our County 
>>> Commissioner proclaiming the Month of October as Blindness Awareness 
>>> Month and The observance of our White Cane Safety Day.
>>>
>>> David Evans, NFBF and GD Jack.
>>>
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>>>> Sent: 10/1/2010 11:25:48 A.M. Eastern Daylight  Time
>>>> Subj: White Cane Safety Day Event In Orlando!!!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> LIghthouse Central Florida Is Planning a White Cane Safety Day Event on
>>>> Friday Oct. 15, 2010 .
>>>> They are planning refreshments and the whole Gig. More information to
>>>> follow from Mary Clark at Lighthouse. If you want to contact her call
>>>> 407-898-2483
>>>>
>>>> White Cane Safety Day: A Symbol of Independence
>>>> by Marc Maurer
>>>> In February of 1978 a young blind lady said, “I encounter people all of 
>>>> the
>>>> time who bless me, extol my independence, call me brave and courageous,
>>>> and  thoroughly miss the boat as to what the real significance of the 
>>>> white
>>>> cane  is.”
>>>> The National Federation of the Blind in convention assembled on the 6th 
>>>> day
>>>> of July, 1963, called upon the governors of the fifty states to 
>>>> proclaim
>>>> October 15 of each year as White Cane Safety Day in each of our fifty
>>>> states.  On October 6, 1964, a joint resolution of the Congress, HR 
>>>> 753, was
>>>> signed  into law authorizing the President of the United States to 
>>>> proclaim
>>>> October 15  of each year as “White Cane Safety Day.” This resolution 
>>>> said: “
>>>> Resolved by  the Senate and House of Representatives…, that the 
>>>> President is
>>>> hereby  authorized to issue annually a proclamation designating October 
>>>> 15 as
>>>> White  Cane Safety Day and calling upon the people of the United States 
>>>> to
>>>> observe  such a day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.”
>>>> Within hours of the passage of the congressional joint resolution
>>>> authorizing the President to proclaim October 15 as White Cane Safety 
>>>> Day, then
>>>> President Lyndon B. Johnson recognized the importance of the white cane 
>>>> as a
>>>> staff of independence for blind people. In the first Presidential White 
>>>> Cane
>>>> Proclamation President Johnson commended the blind for the growing 
>>>> spirit
>>>> of independence and the increased determination to be self-reliant that 
>>>> the
>>>> organized blind had shown. The Presidential proclamation said:
>>>> The white cane in our society has become one of the symbols of a blind
>>>> person’s ability to come and go on his own. Its use has promoted 
>>>> courtesy and
>>>> special consideration to the blind on our streets and highways. To make 
>>>> our
>>>> people more fully aware of the meaning of the white cane and of the 
>>>> need
>>>> for  motorists to exercise special care for the blind persons who carry 
>>>> it
>>>> Congress, by a joint resolution approved as of October 6, 1964, has 
>>>> authorized
>>>> the President to proclaim October 15 of each year as White Cane Safety
>>>> Day.
>>>> Now, therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of
>>>> America do hereby proclaim October 15, 1964 as White Cane Safety Day.
>>>> With those stirring words President Johnson issued the first White Cane
>>>> Proclamation which was the culmination of a long and serious effort on 
>>>> the
>>>> part of the National Federation of the Blind to gain recognition for 
>>>> the
>>>> growing independence and self-sufficiency of blind people in America, 
>>>> and also
>>>> to gain recognition of the white cane as the symbol of that 
>>>> independence and
>>>> that self-reliance.
>>>> The first of the state laws regarding the right of blind people to 
>>>> travel
>>>> independently with the white cane was passed in 1930. In 1966, Dr. 
>>>> Jacobus
>>>> tenBroek, the founder of the National Federation of the Blind, drafted 
>>>> the
>>>> model White Cane Law. This model act--which has become known as the 
>>>> Civil
>>>> Rights Bill for the Blind, the Disabled, and the Otherwise Physically
>>>> Handicapped-–contains a provision designating October 15 as White Cane 
>>>> Safety
>>>> Day. Today there is a variant of the White Cane Law on the statute 
>>>> books of
>>>> every state in the nation.
>>>> From 1963 (and even before) when the National Federation of the Blind
>>>> sought to have White Cane Safety Day proclaimed as a recognition of the 
>>>> rights
>>>> of blind persons, to 1978 when a blind pedestrian met with 
>>>> misunderstanding
>>>> regarding the true meaning of the white cane, is but a short time in 
>>>> the
>>>> life  of a movement. In 1963, a comparatively small number of blind 
>>>> people had
>>>> achieved sufficient independence to travel alone on the busy highways 
>>>> of
>>>> our  nation. In 1978 that number has not simply increased but 
>>>> multiplied a
>>>> hundredfold. The process began in the beginning of the organized blind
>>>> movement and continues today. There was a time when it was unusual to 
>>>> see a
>>>> blind person on the street, to find a blind person working in an 
>>>> office, or to
>>>> see a blind person operating machinery in a factory. This is still all 
>>>> too
>>>> uncommon. But it happens more often and the symbol of this independence 
>>>> is
>>>> the  white cane. The blind are able to go, to move, to be, and to 
>>>> compete
>>>> with all  others in society. The means by which this is done is that 
>>>> simple
>>>> tool, the  white cane. With the growing use of the white cane is an 
>>>> added
>>>> element–-the  wish and the will to be free–-the unquenchable spirit and 
>>>> the
>>>> inextinguishable  determination to be independent. With these our lives 
>>>> are
>>>> changed, and the  prospects for blind people become bright. That is 
>>>> what White
>>>> Cane Safety Day  is all about. That is what we do in the National 
>>>> Federation
>>>> of the Blind
>>>> _Model  White Cane Law_
>>>> (http://www.nfb.org/nfb/model_white_cane_bill.asp?SnID=1772185191)
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