[nfbmi-talk] Fwd: Rescheduling of Training Center Open House

[Christine _boone]

Please know that the Center staff was, and continues to be disheartened, and depressed about the cancellation of the annual open house.  That has long been a favorite tradition at the Training Center, largely because we get to see so many former customers, colleagues, partners, friends, advocates and just plain good, hard working and honest blind folks. Today we had a very small gathering with a few desserts and some punch served. The atmosphere was notably somber.  We join you all in mourning the passing of an excellent tradition. 

Boone Christine Sent from my iPhone

On Dec 18, 2012, at 1:46 AM, Linda Bloodsaw <lbloodsaw2018 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting.  So this is why my counselor would not give me a pair of long oven mitts.
> 
> On Dec 18, 2012, at 1:21 AM, "Terry Eagle" <terrydeagle at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> The more things change, the more things stay the same!  Typical
>> Commission/BS4BP mode of operation--cater to the staff of the agency serving
>> the blind citizens.  As if having a well paying J O B with generous benefits
>> and retirement are not celebration enough for the right to serve we the
>> blind; they the well paid staff
>> Are treated to a celebration, while blind vendors cannot get funds for
>> refrigeration and freezer repairs and replacement to protect and preserve
>> the safety and integrity of food items they are expected to have to sell,
>> with no guaranteed minimum sales or monthly income standard to them, unlike
>> Commmission/BS4BP staff and management.  I suppose the celebration funds are
>> coming from the same vocational rehabilitation funds pot as those funds used
>> to place and employ sighted persons in Business Enterprise Programm
>> facilities.
>> 
>> O Come, O come ye, let us celebrate the BS4BP staff and management's
>> holidays, with a paid work day hours party, in addition to their four paid
>> holidays  O come, O come ye let's treat them as if they are first-responders
>> to a tragic disaster, when in the last twelve days of work, they are, in
>> fact, a last-responder to BS4BP clients' e-mails and calls for sevices.
>> That fact is what is tragic and a disaster, along with the administration's
>> proposed WORK-TO-WELFARE for blind vendors legislation, which will be
>> classified and referred to as an outward mobility initiative, designed to
>> further raise the already heavenly-high mountain of unemployment among the
>> blind.  But Hark the Herald, with their stellar business training, those
>> blind vendors can easily be placed and employed as red kettle bell-ringers
>> begging for money on behalf of a well known charible organization.  After
>> all, tis the season for family tradition, and what better way is there than
>> nostalgic street corner begging work of the historic past of blind persons.
>> And to that can be added some sort of musical entertainment for added value
>> and increased donations, as we all know, we the blind, are endowed with an
>> ear for music.  Joy to the world--that is economic development and
>> entrepreneur talent for we the blind--the future lump of coal prosperity.
>> And just think, REJOICE, REJOICE, we will need not have to wait and worry
>> about a response from BS4BP as to our tools of the trade, a bell and red
>> kettle, as they are standard issue equipment for economic development ,, and
>> guaranteed and just as reliable as a paycheck, paid holidays, and holiday