[Nfbf-l] vision summit

[Denise Valkema]

Please report back after TD day. Appreciate it.

Sincerely, Denise Valkema by iPhone 

> On Feb 19, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Jean Selzer <jselzer143 at aol.com> wrote:
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> Hello Denise,
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> Just wanted to say thank you for all your hard work and too the team who helped to make this years vision summit a success.  I am sorry that I was not able to attend this year but I will be up in Tallahassee for TD-Day.
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> Jean Cerullo
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denise Valkema <valkemadenise at aol.com>
> To: NFBF <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tue, Feb 18, 2014 1:12 pm
> Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] vision summit
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> 
> 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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