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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>COLUMBIA CHAPTER NEWSLETTER<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>AUGUST 14, 2015<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>NFB OF SC AUGUST 21-23 CONVENTION<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> The state convention is less than a week away! Speaking of rooms at the convention, the $10 Marriott free night ticket drawing was last might and Carey Burriss of the Anderson Chapter was the lucky winner! Transportation will be made to the convention on Friday and back home after the convention ends on Sunday afternoon. If you are seeking convention transportation assistance, contact Tiffiny Mitchell at 629-5915.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Convention pre-registration after Friday, August 14 will be $75. I hope you got yours in on time. This includes your name badge, free access to the Friday night Columbia Chapter sponsored ‘70’s theme Reception, Luncheon and Banquet on Saturday and Continental Breakfast Saturday and Sunday morning in the meeting room before general sessions begin as well as your name in the door prize drawing box for door prizes all convention long! <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>LABOR DAY FUN DAY WEEKEND <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>SEPTEMBER 4-7, 2015<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> If you are planning to attend the Fun Day weekend and need accommodations, call the state office now to get your name on the accommodations list. Already 55 have signed up. Please sell your $5 Fun Day tickets. If you sold one which is drawn at Fun Day, you get $50 and the buyer gets $500. If you bought your own ticket, you get $550! If the Columbia Chapter sells the most tickets, the chapter receives $300 for its treasury! Let’s win again. Turn in your ticket sales and stubs to David Houck so that chapter and individual credit can be made. David Houck has more tickets if you need them. See you at Rocky Bottom on Fun Day!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>BINGO ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 27<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Free BINGO sponsored by the Telephone Pioneers will be on August 27 due to the state convention next week.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>COLUMBIA CHAPTER MEETING<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>AUGUST 13<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> President Tiffiny Mitchell gaveled the meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. Ike Nelson and his kitchen crew served up a delicious pork chop dinner. David Houck gave the devotional on Proverbs 3:5-6. He also gave the Center Report emphasizing Rocky Bottom Fun Day, selling Fun Day tickets and getting items for the yard sale and auction as well as the NFB of SC state convention next weekend. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Our special guest speaker introduced by Donald Capps was Judi Gaston of WIS TV 10 who recounted how she got into the TV business and talked about the Charleston shooting tragedy. As already mentioned above, the Marriott ticket winner was Carey Burris of Anderson. Funds raised in ticket sales came to $830. The offering collection was added to a $250 gift from the Columbia Chapter to the Federation Center for an emergency crisis and totaled $662 including other chapter member’s gifts. Great work chapter members! $277 was collected in money for the dinner and the 50-50 drawing netted $40 for the chapter and $40 for Dorothy Barksdale who was the winner of the drawing. All in all it was a great meeting and now we look forward to the state convention at the Marriott August 21-23. See you there!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tiffiny Mitchell, President<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Columbia Chapter, NFB of SC<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>