[nfbmi-talk] a lion roars on boone affair

[Christine Boone]

I would love to meet Ken Karakula!  I wonder how a Lion would like a Bear
Hug!

Christine
 

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http://www.mlive.com/opinion/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2010/03/letters_blind_train
ing_center.html

 

March 19, 2010, 8:00AM

 

Written by: Ken Karakula, Norman L. Kramer, Jon O. Flegel & PDTC students

 

Blind Training Center director was thinking 'outside the box'

 

I was totally dismayed to read about the firing of Christine Boone as
director of the Michigan Commission for the Blind Training Center in
Kalamazoo for

creating supposed "firearms" classes for blind students.

 

These spring-loaded rifles are not firearms. They can be purchased in the
toy department of any store and shoot rubber or plastic pellets and are safe
enough

for children to use.

 

I suspect there is another agenda that Patrick Cannon has against Boone. As
a previous longtime Lions Club member, I had the privilege of knowing fellow

member Norm Backon who was blind and worked for the Commission for the
Blind.

 

Norm would encourage both sighted and non-sighted persons to think "outside
the box" in helping the blind. We created a memorial scholarship in his
honor

after his death to help those wanting to work with the blind.

 

I would suggest that Cannon resign and stop discriminating against and
hindering creative people like Boone from thinking "outside the box" when
trying

to help the blind.

 

Ken Karakula/past president, Portage Lions Club

 

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