[Nfbf-l] a successful White Cane Day Awareness celebration- Sherri, Fantastic

[Alan Dicey]

Dear Sherri, and all those fine people who participated,

This all sounds just so Incredible, just Fantastic, Congratulations to each 
and every one of you!
Your message made me feel I wish I had been there Sherri!
In the more than 20 years I have been a NFB Member in Miami, and 
participated in a lot of these events, we never had half that number of 
folks participating, when you wrote: "43 blind or visually impaired people 
who attended."

Sherri, I am just amazed and felt I had to write to let readers on this list 
know, I am so happy and actually thrilled we have a group of People in the 
Orlando area that can achieve this overwhelmingly successful "Awareness 
Event"!
And I am sure as  the "chair" you had a lot to do with organizing it all!
Congratulations again Sherri, and to all the fine People who were involved 
in this event, I wish I could shake hands with each and every one of them.
With Warm Regards,
God Bless,
Alan
Plantation, Florida


Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] a successful White Cane Day Awareness celebration
-----Original Message-----
From: Sherri via Nfbf-l <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org
Sent: Oct 10, 2014 2:53 PM
To: nfbf-l at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Nfbf-l] a successful White Cane Day Awareness celebration
Hello all,
The National Federation of the Blind of Central Florida with participation 
from Lighthouse Central Florida, Greater Orlando Council of the Blind, the 
V.A. and other groups held a very successful White Cane Day awareness 
celebration this morning in downtown Orlando. We also had the involvement of 
the Orlando Police Department and Orange County Sheriff's Department in 
assisting with street crossings and letting drivers know about the White 
Cane Law. We passed out candy canes with the White Cane Law stapled to them 
as well as other brochures that Lighthouse Central Florida helped with that 
also raised awareness about the law. We were honored to have proclamations 
presented both from Orange county Mayor Teresa Jacobs, who was not in 
attendance, as well as the honorable Mayor Buddy Dyer who attended and 
presented the proclamation from the City of Orlando. Mayor Dyer and his 
assistants also crossed busy Orange Avenue under blindfold, as did many 
others who attended. We also had a very nice letter submitted by Congressman 
John Mica, who has been a tireless advocate for the disabled of Florida for 
many years. Though he was not able to be there, he sent his assistants Barry 
and Hannah and Barry read the congressman's letter to us. Congresswoman 
Corrine Brown also sent a representative from her office.

We got media coverage from WKMG Channel 6 television. I believe their first 
broadcast is at 5 P.M.

After the event, many of us met for lunch.

As chair of the event (taking over for Tonie Clavie who moved out of
the area), I am thrilled that it was such a success. I want to thank all 
those who took part in whatever way they did. If I start naming names, I 
will surely leave out someone, so just know that I really appreciate your 
help.
We had a count of 43 blind or visually impaired people who attended. I hope 
next year's celebration will be even bigger and better. To those  who were 
not there, you missed a really enjoyable time.
Sherri Brun
Character is the side of yourself you choose to show the world.
Integrity is what you do, what you say and how you act when you think
no one is paying attention.
Sherri Brun
NFBF Newsline Chair
flmom2006 at gmail.com
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