[Nfbf-l] vision summit

[Patricia A. Lipovsky]

Thanks very much for sharing that information Denise.


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From: "Denise Valkema" <valkemadenise at aol.com>
To: "NFBF" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] vision summit


>I traveled by bus Tueaday, 2/11/14 at 7:05pm and arrived in Tallahassee at 
>5:05am and attended the Florida Rehab Council meeting all day Wednesday, 
>2/12/14 with Eric, Jacksonville, and part of afternoon with Latoya, 
>Jacksonville.
>
> At 7:00am on Thursday Eric, Latoya, and I met in lobby of hotel with 
> council members to shuttle to capital for summit. We met up with members 
> of the Tallahassee chapter (Johnnie, Sylvia, Donald) under the 
> organization and leadership of President Johnnie Slaton covered the NFB 
> resource table. Many were wearing the champions of freedom T-shirt. 
> Tinetta,  NFBF Tallahassee, helped with registration. A continental 
> breakfast was served and we mingled before summit meeting started. After 
> the summit some had an appointment in  a Congressman's office.
>
> In summary, Representative Baxley mentioned that he is looking for a 
> current bill to add additional support for white cane law. Mr. Doyle 
> mentioned the three fold chord cannot easily be broken-client, counselor, 
> network; legislative, executive, judicial; respect, trust, transparency.
> Paul Edwards, FCB President, talked about three crisis of state population 
> growing and not enough funding for older population to receive services, 
> driver received no blame for violating white cane law after hitting a 
> member in Tallahassee, and unemployment rate of blind is still at 70% and 
> discriminations till exists. I shared facts from our fact sheets on 
> employment, accessibility including myflorida site, and transportation. 
> These were handouts on each table. I mentioned we are a resource, 
> scholarships available, and thankful for continuing to have Newsline in 
> Florida. I mentioned that we are grateful to be working to find possible 
> solutions to these challenges instead of crisis. We had round table 
> discussion on how we could solve issues in these three areas. A summary 
> from each table was presented to all and will be in a report from FAASB.
>
> I took a bus at 1:30pm and returned home after 12:30am on 2/14/14.
>
> Thanks to all that helped NFBF have a voice, participation, and greater 
> presence at the 2014 vision summit! Yeah Florida!
>
> Sincerely, Denise Valkema by iPhone
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