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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Good Morning Cleveland,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Please read through to its entirety and respond by 3:00PM today.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>//<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>On Yesterday, the Cleveland Chapter along with a few outside customers of Paratransit met in the Ohio Zoom Room with </span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:none'>Shannon Baldwin, </span></b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:none'>Staff Attorney from Disability Rights Ohio (</span></i><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:none'>DRO). Discussed was the various concerns and disregard of services for the blind. It was a fruitful discussion and the result has us in a good position. Miss Baldwin has agreed to be an advocate representing the Cleveland Chapter.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:none'>Although, DRO is working for our good, we are not relying on that as a means of resolution. Today, I will be filing a charge on behalf of Cleveland’s members, who have provided dates and incidents to send over to the Ohio Civil Rights Commission (OCRC. If you have any incidents in the last nine months that you would like for me to document, please email or call me by 2:00PM today. Leave information on my mobile phone if I do not answer.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:none'>Again, we must have the date and incident for me to add.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:none'>Suzanne <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Suzanne M. Hartfield Turner</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>National Federation of the Blind of Ohio, Vice President<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Ohio Legislative Director<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Cleveland Chapter, President<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:24.0pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>The National Federation of the Blind advances the lives of its members and all blind people in the United States. We know that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles between blind people and our dreams. Our collective power, determination, and diversity achieve the aspirations of all blind people.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>P: (216) 990-6199<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>W: NFBOhio.ORG<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ohiosblind/photos/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>https://www.facebook.com/ohiosblind/photos/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>