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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> mdpobc-bounces@nfbnet.org [mailto:mdpobc-bounces@nfbnet.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Trudy Pickrel<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, August 18, 2012 2:29 PM<br><b>To:</b> MDPOBC; brigettejayne@comcast.net; tammyrbennett@gmail.com; michonsmith@yahoo.com; hollym12@gmail.com; sabrinalove1@verizon.net; tylershallue@yahoo.com; cmdayrdh@aol.com; laurenaw23@yahoo.com; momkj16@gmail.com; shaday1401@aol.com; alarcon.abelina3@gmail.com; rosemary.gaylor@us.army.mil; akibasimpson@hotmail.com; ejtgreen@clear.net; teresagraham3@gmail.com; choudhary01@gmail.com; becky_holland@mcpsmd.org; noralee99@aol.com; jsotwell@k12.carr.org; cbarno@sainttheresaschool.org; kalfonso@clb.org; mollyford5@hotmail.com; linda3@gmail.com; pdenning@ga.k12.md.us<br><b>Subject:</b> [Mdpobc] FW: FW: Maryland Parents of Blind Children's Family Picnic<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br> </span><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>RSVP to 301-501-1818 </span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>or </span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:TLPickrel@hotmail.com"><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>TLPickrel@hotmail.com</span></strong></a></span><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> by 8-22-12</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> but if you find at the last minute you can come please call us and come</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center id=stopSpelling></span></div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=154 height=111 id="ecxPicture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CD5F59.D7691A90" alt="Description: Description: Description: whozits_K"></span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#00B050'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#00B050'>Maryland Parents of Blind Children</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Cordially invites:</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>All parents<span style='color:#1F497D'>, </span>grandparents<span style='color:#1F497D'>, </span>and siblings of blind children</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Educators of Blind children</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Others interested in promoting a climate of opportunity for blind children</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>to an</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#00B050'>Maryland Parents of Blind Children Family Picnic </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#00B050'>(menu: Hamburgs, Hot Dogs, Coverdish)</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#00B050'>and a</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#00B050'>Beep Baseball Demonstration </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#00B050'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#00B050'>Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#00B050'>2:00 - 7:00p.m.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#00B050'>Auth Village Park</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>6186 Baxter Dr, Camp Springs, MD 20746 </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#00B050'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>This event has been generously sponsored by the:</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#00B050'>Lions’ Clubs</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#00B050'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#00B050'>Please respond to Trudy at 301-501-1818 or e-mail: </span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'><a href="mailto:tlpickrel@hotmail.com">tlpickrel@hotmail.com</a> </span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#00B050'>to let us know that you are coming (So we know how much food to have on hand!)</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#00B050'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Maryland Parents of Blind Children goal</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'> is to help blind/visually impaired children grow up to be productive, fully functioning, and independent members of society by providing practical information to their parents and teachers. We are also dedicated to providing ideas, assistance, and information that will help blind/VI children with additional disabilities reach their potential.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>Trudy L. Pickrel</span></strong><b><span style='color:#002060'><br></span></b></span><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>President MD Parents of Blind Children</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br></span><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>301-387-4182</span></strong><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>301-501-1818</span></strong></span></b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'><br></span><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:purple'><a href="http://www.tlcbythelake.weebly.com/" target="_blank">www.tlcbythelake.weebly.com</a></span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br></span><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:purple'><a href="http://mdparentsofblindchildren.org/" target="_blank">http://mdparentsofblindchildren.org/</a></span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:purple'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#C00000'>Our independence comes from within. A slave can have keen eyesight, excellent mobility, and superb reading skills?and still be a slave. We are achieving freedom and independence in the only way that really counts?in rising self-respect, growing self-confidence, and the will and the ability to make choices. Above all, independence means choices, and the power to make those choices stick.<br><br>Kenneth Jernigan<br><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#C00000'><a href="http://www.nfb.org/" target="_blank">www.nfb.org</a></span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br>_______________________________________________ Plp mailing list <a href="mailto:Plp@nfbnet.org">Plp@nfbnet.org</a> <a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/plp_nfbnet.org">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/plp_nfbnet.org</a> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Plp: <a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/plp_nfbnet.org/tlpickrel%40hotmail.com">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/plp_nfbnet.org/tlpickrel%40hotmail.com</a><br>_______________________________________________ Mdpobc mailing list <a href="mailto:Mdpobc@nfbnet.org">Mdpobc@nfbnet.org</a> <a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/mdpobc_nfbnet.org">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/mdpobc_nfbnet.org</a> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Mdpobc: <a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/mdpobc_nfbnet.org/tlpickrel%40hotmail.com">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/mdpobc_nfbnet.org/tlpickrel%40hotmail.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>