[Nfbmo] What would you do?

Bryan Schulz b.schulz at sbcglobal.net
Mon Oct 24 18:34:24 UTC 2011


hi,

the st. louis chapter is considering a trivia event next year and may attend 
one of yours to see what they are like.

Bryan Schulz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan Ford" <johnsusanford at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] What would you do?


>
> I don't know, Fred.  It's too bad you can't find a bunch of blind people 
> who would go together to next year's Trivia night.  With enough of you, 
> they would be embarrassed and feel compelled to alter things.  I didn't 
> know they used video materials at trivia nights anyway.  I thought they 
> were supposed to be intellectual pursuits.  You might send an item to Dave 
> Andrews to put on all the NFB listservs.  Maybe someone else would come up 
> with a good plan.  Depending on who sponsors it, programs getting federal 
> money could be compelled to do things differently, but a church doesn't 
> receive federal funds.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "fred olver" <goodfolks at charter.net>
> To: "NFB of Missouri Mailing List" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 8:44 AM
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>>A year ago, I attended a Trivia Night put on by a food pantry in the St. 
>>Louis area. This pantry is supported by my church along with several 
>>others. After the night's program was over, half of the categories being 
>>visual in nature so that a blind person could not participate in that 
>>portion of the program I wrote an item for my churches news-letter and 
>>sent it on to the director of the organization. In this item I pointed out 
>>that it was not fair or necessary to include only video-type questions and 
>>asked that they do, in the future consider having categories which were 
>>non-video in the future. I received assurances from the director of the 
>>organization that indeed they would do this.
>>
>> Last Friday, I attended their Trivia Nighht again. True, only two 
>> categories of questions were video in nature, however these two 
>> categories included roughly 1/3 of the questions. Yesterday at a meeting 
>> of a church committee I suggested that they with-hold two weeks worth of 
>> donations and that these donations go to another organization as a 
>> protest, the rest of the committee said no to this idea, sighting the 
>> possibility that a family might have to do without this food, I 
>> personally doubt it, and figure they're just to comfortable in their 
>> place and don't wish to because it doesn't affect them, so what would you 
>> do if you were in my place? This really upsets me, especially since I had 
>> spoken to this organization a year ago and they had more or less agreed 
>> that this was not a good thing to have happen.
>>
>> Fred Olver
>> http://www.dealingwithvisionloss.com  For some of us it's a way of life 
>> and for some of us it just makes life easier. Fred Olver
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