[NFBV-Announce] Directions to the DBVI Recreation Building for the Saturday (5/11) NFB of Virginia Board of Directors meeting

Tue May 7 18:13:20 UTC 2024

>From Tracy soforenko, President

We are very excited to have people join us for our Saturday, May 11 National
federation of the Blind of Virginia Board of Directors meeting. Our Board of
Directors meeting is open to all.

This meeting will be a 100% in person meeting.

For our Board of Directors meeting, we will be meeting at the Recreation
Building on the DBVI Richmond Campus. 

9:30 Welcoming Reception with Coffee and muffins in the Recreation Building

10:00 Board of Directors Meeting in the Recreation Center Gymnasium

The board meeting will conclude at Noon and individuals selected by the
chapter and division presidents along with the NFBV membership committee
members will be staying for an afternoon program with lunch. Registered
participants will have received a message this morning from Tracy with more
details.

Getting to the Recreation Center at DBVI's Richmond Campus

The building is a little complicated to find.

We recognize that the recreation building where we are holding our NFBV
Board of Directors meeting on the DBVI campus is new to some of you. While
we held our January meeting in this same location, the directions need a
refresher. We asked Domonique Lawless, and O&M instructor by training, to
provide us directions should someone be going to the AA building at 401
Azalea Avenue and seeking the Recreation Building.

Domonique provides very detailed directions below:

As far as getting to the rec building, if you are getting dropped off at the
bus stop in front of the AA building, please continue to walk forward. You
should hear the sound of Azalea Avenue traffic behind you and the sound of
the fountain should be on the left. 

If you shoreline the right side of the sidewalk, you will feel an opening to
another sidewalk. Turn right. Walk down that sidewalk left parentheses about
a buildings length) until your cane finds grass in front of you.

Put that grass on your left side and look for an opening to the left. It
should be shortly after you originally find the grass with your cane. Turn
left and then turn left onto the next sidewalk.

Shoreline the right side of the sidewalk and you will find an opening with
the lion statue. That is the entrance to the rec building that will be
unlocked at 9:00 AM. 

Alternatively, you may have your driver drop you off at the side entrance to
the recreation building. As you are turning into the parking lot of the
center, if you go past the bus stop as if you are heading to the dumpster,
you will turn left and pull up at an all-brick building with a double door.
That door will be locked, but Domonique will try and get a volunteer to
Standby.

Some of you will be coming by train from Northern Virginia arriving at
Richmond Staples Mill Station at 9:03 AM. Joe Orozco has agreed to help
coordinate transport from Richmond Staples Mill Station to the DBVI Campus.
You can contact Joe on his personal mobile at: 

202-905-7919

With a large group of blind people getting on the train with white canes and
guide dogs, the Amtrak conductors will know where people are sitting on the
train. The Amtrak conductors are nice but are not so subtle. In case you do
not connect with Joe on the train in advance, please congregate near the
front entrance of the Richmond Staples Mill Road station to get organized
into Uber or Lyft vehicles to the DBVI Campus.

If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Tracy Soforenko

President, National Federation of the Blind of Virginia

202 285-4595

Tracy.soforenko at gmail.com <mailto:Tracy.soforenko at gmail.com> 

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Peace,

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Corresponding Secretary NFBV

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