[NFBMI-Talk] Saturday state board meeting

[Kane Brolin]

Hello, everyone, from just south of the border.

If you don't mind, I would like to join these Michigan State Board
meeting calls, just as an observer.

Even though tomorrow's discussion of BS4BP is not actionable for my
people in Indiana--(we don't have any state programs like this for
blind people in Indiana)--I think I could learn something.  Chances
are, I will not speak; but I do look forward to hearing from others
and from continuing to track what is going on there with
post-secondary training standards.

As for other issues you might be covering on the 13th: I would like to
discuss the possibility that some of us in Northern Indiana and
Southwestern Michigan could get together in July for a medium-sized,
physical watch party that could happen for a day or two of National
Convention.  By then, there's a good possibility that COVID-19 will be
contained and that nearly all of us will have been vaccinated.  I know
a lot of factors--some of them financial--have made it prudent for
National to keep the big Convention virtual in 2021.  But I miss the
person-to-person interaction and would relish the chance for some of
us to break bread and have some Convention fellowship in a smaller,
regional gathering, splitting the cost in some way among those members
or chapters that might care to partake.  Would anyone care to discuss
at a later time?

I wish you all the best.

Kind regards,

Kane Brolin
President, Michiana Chapter
National Federation of the Blind of Indiana
(574)386-8868 (mobile)