[Nfbf-l] {Disarmed} Re: [NFBF-Leaders] Blind Driver Challenge andWashington Seminar

[Dan Hicks]

Thank you, Alicia. We were very happy to have you aboard this year. You made
a great contribution to our team, before and after we landed in Washington. 

Dan

“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily.  
Not to dare is to lose oneself.” 
                 — Soren Kierkegaard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbf-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbf-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of
> Alicia Betancourt
> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 12:55 PM
> To: 'NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List'; NFBF-Leaders at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Nfbf-l] {Disarmed} Re: [NFBF-Leaders] Blind Driver Challenge
> andWashington Seminar
> 
> Hi Dan and everyone else,
> I am so very sorry to hear that you are sick but I want to say that I am
so excited to
> have gotten a chance to talk to the legislators in DC. For once in my
young life, I
> feel that I am making a difference. Also, I'd like to be able to make
appointments
> like Ms. Sherri and feel confident doing it. Everyone was so great! See
you all later
> and thanks for giving me the opportunity to go to DC.
> 
> Alicia Betancourt
> 
> --- On Thu, 2/3/11, Dan Hicks <danjhicks at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
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> From: Dan Hicks <danjhicks at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [NFBF-Leaders] Blind Driver Challenge and Washington Seminar
> To: "'NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List'" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>, NFBF-
> Leaders at yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, February 3, 2011, 9:29 PM
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> Fellow Florida Federation members,
> 
> We are barely into February of the new year and already Florida NFB
members
> have been involved in two important NFB events.
> 
> Our state played host to the Blind Driver Challenge in Daytona Beach .
President
> Maurer said that the NFB had 360 people using hotel rooms. Our affiliate
bought a
> total of 117 tickets for the event, and a few people bought their own
ticket. Say
> about 120 attendees were from the NFBF. But, about 55 of our people did
not use
> rooms in the three contracted hotels, so that 360 becomes 415 total
attendees, and
> 120 were our people, or about two out of every seven.
> 
> Florida was also well-represented at the Washington Seminar. We had about
15
> people out of the 500 or so from around the country. We were all fortunate
we did
> not get snowed in. Dwight Sayer was unable to go, because he caught some
bug in
> Jamaica the week before. I come back from DC with a cold and laryngitis.
> 
> Because Washington Seminars have to be scheduled months in advance, and
this
> turned out to be Constituents Week – when the members of the House of
> Representatives are not in DC, but visiting their home districts – we saw
few House
> members. However, the Legislative Assistants and other staffers in the
offices of
> the members seemed, for the most part, attentive and impressed with our
> presentation of our issues.
> 
> Thank you to all of you who attended these events. You and your
participation
> made them happen. Thanks to those who made the appointments in Washington
,
> DC . Thanks to Denise Valkema, who helped keep track of and coordinate
> appointments, and to Joe Minichiello, who took over for me when Gloria’s
and my
> flights were cancelled and we arrived in DC several hours later than we
had
> expected. A special thank you to Gloria, our treasurer, who put in many
hours
> dealing with hotels and ticket vendors and distributed tickets and paid
bills.
> 
> Thanks to all of you for making the Florida affiliate the best in the NFB!
> 
> Dan Hicks
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> “To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily.
> Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
>                  — Soren Kierkegaard
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