[Nfbf-l] vision summit

[Denise Valkema]

I enjoyed having the opportunity. Thanks

Sincerely, Denise Valkema by iPhone 

> On Feb 18, 2014, at 4:19 PM, "Kathy Davis" <kdavisnfbf at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> Denise thanks so much for the wonderful summation of the goings on up there
> in Tallahassee. Sounds like much was accomplished. You appear to have kept
> an exhausting schedule and let me say for one that I truly appreciate your
> time and effort. 
> 
> Blessings,
> 
> Kathy Davis
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfbf-l [mailto:nfbf-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Denise Valkema
> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 1:12 PM
> To: NFBF
> 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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