[Nfbmt] When it comes to blindness & vision impairment... January 16, 6 pm - At Large Chapter Phone Conference Meeting

Sat Jan 9 05:06:54 UTC 2016

I knew somebody whose cane was chopped off by a car crossing the intersection
of the street that the person was also trying to cross.  I guess better the
cane than the person who was holding the handle.

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January 16, 6 pm - At Large Chapter Phone Conference Meeting

To show how astute we can be, many years ago I destroyed 3 canes in a week's
time.  1 in the hood of a car I had been working on, 1 in the door of a
pickup and the third in a car door.  It just happened that the NFB convention
was the following week & I was able to replenished my supply.
Ted

EDWARD C "TED" ROBBINS
, CEO MBEI, Treasurer NFB of Montana & MANAGER MAB EQUIPMENT PROGRAM PHONE &
FAX:  406 453 6678, CELL:  406 799 6268
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GREAT FALLS  MT   59404

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January 16, 6 pm - At Large Chapter Phone Conference Meeting

Thank you, Dar.
I appreciate what you posted.
We all do have so many different stories to tell.
The cane in the car door. I have had that happen a few times.
Have a great weekend.
And hello to everyone.
Rik

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January 16, 6 pm - At Large Chapter Phone Conference Meeting

Rick,
When I lived in the country as a teen, I took a tree branch to travel with.
Mother didn't want me to have a cane.
When I finally got one, it got bent shutting it in the door of a car.
I am blind, no other way of describing it.
My husband needs to get on the pogo stick calling hotels.
We will have our chapter meeting this next week and will come up with a new
set of helpers ha.
I, would like to become president again.
All dreams come true.
Keep Jim as secretary with all of the toys he loves to play with.
Jeff as activity fund raising.
Still looking for treasure, where Pam Halworth has been kind to help out.
What a trouper she is.
I'm doing well just to try to help here in Billings, with all of the
activities I am involved in away from the Federation.
Some day I will explain how I got where I am now.
Thanks for such a fun post.

Original message:
> Subjects for conversation. Subjects for investigation. Recipes for a
> quality of understanding of the past, the now, and the yellow brick
> road to the future.

> Vision impairment.
> Is this a term you are comfortable with?
> Why or why not?
> When did the term first begin to be used?

> Blindness.
> How good do you feel about where you are with it?
> What is working and what is yet to be tackled, in the way of challenges.
> Are there short term and long term goals for you? Or, for your family
> member or friends who are blind?

> For a  bigger picture.
> There is me, there is we, and there is the bigger us.
> Both within our Federation organization, and the bigger, the much
> bigger general public.

> What are the instruments which are your very best friends, in terms of
> employing your own skills of blindness?
> Describe them. Tell how long you have been using it.
> Tell how you came to know about it, and how to use it.

> Are there cheap solutions and expensive solutions?
> Name some good ideas that some of us may not yet have thought of?

> It is a new year.
> Here is a springboard.
> Here are seeds.
> Let's plan our garden, while the year is still so young.

> Let's teach, let's learn, let's talk, and let's have fun, too.
> Let's remember, let's imagine, and let's build.
> Both on this email discussion group and anywhere, really, I say.

> And oh, yes.
> There is a Treasure State At Large Chapter of NFB of Montana meeting,
> next Thursday, January 16, at 6 pm.
> I could use some people to call members who are not on email.
> Remember that thing they call a phone tree? Each member can take
> several names and numbers and call to inform and/or remind them of the
> upcoming meeting.
> I think now a days we are forgetting how nice it was to actually have
> phone conversations. Email is great. But let's not leave anyone out,
> just because they don't go for email.

> Contact me for your phone tree volunteer assignment.
> The phone conference number and access code are below.

> This message has been sent to our entire statewide NFB-MT membership list.
> All persons are welcome to participate.
> The meetings, as I see them, are to help our membership and our shared
> knowledge and familiarity with the issues of blindness flourish and grow.

> Now, let me say this, too. I may sometimes sound organized. But, alas,
> I am a bit overwhelmed in our modern age of so many distractions, too.
> I like the big idea, but I may forget to follow up. So, please do not
> hesitate to call me and remind me of what I have overlooked or
> mistakenly stated. Be my partner, and I will keep being yours, too.

> Thank you, and Happy New Year, everyone.
> Rik James
> President, of that chapter mentioned above.
> The one  that can reach long and far across our Treasure state
> landscape of the National Federation of the Blind of Montana I live in
> Bozeman, or as we call it, The Bo Zone.
> And that is NOT just because one of its long time residents is a bona
> fide Bozo.
> My phone numbers are:
> 406 586 4123 for the land line.
> 406 548 5319 for the mobile line. So you can text message this one, too.

> The Conference Number is
> 712 432 6100
> The access code # is
> 41010893
> no space
> The next meeting is Thursday, January 16 at 6 o'clock pm. Generally
> one hour in length. Call me to propose items you would like to address
> or discuss.

> TIP of the MONTH:
> Jim Aldrich gave me a seed of an idea that I did to make it easier to
> call in to this conference.
> If, that is, you are using one of these new fangled phones, where you
> have saved phone numbers into your Contacts.

> When you put in the phone number into the Contacts, you can put in 3
> commas after the phone number, and then insert the access code. The
> commas cause a slight delay, and then when that computer voice asks
> you for your access code, Bingo. You get in on the fun, and it will
> ask you if you wanted to dial that number and you hit number 1 for
> Yes. Then Bingo again, you are in the room. Thank you, Jim.  A nice
> convenience.

> It is so cool to have friends who know stuff like that. Now, I ask you.
> Isn't it fun?

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