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[Richard]

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            News Release



               FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


 

National Federation of the Blind of Ohio to meet in Dayton November 4-6,
2011

 

October 11, 2011
Contact:  Bev Rose Director of Marketing

                                & Communications Dayton/Montgomery County
CVB 937-226-8226


Event Contacts::  Dr. J. Webster Smith President jwsmithnfb at frontier.com
800-396-6326.

Dayton chapter president contact RichardPayne 937/298/6677
rchpay7 at sbcglobal.net 

The National Federation of the Blind of Ohio, a 501(c) 3 consumer
organization comprised of blind and sighted people committed to changing
what it means to be blind, will meet at the Wyndham Garden Dayton South
Hotel (formerly the Holiday Inn Dayton Mall), November 4-6, 2011.  The
convention will include an exhibit and technology tradeshow featuring
services and training opportunities available to the members, general
sessions, motivational speakers, a variety of workshops, recognition of two
national scholarship winners (from Ohio) and two state scholarship winners,
a banquet and a memorial service among other activities.  Montgomery County
Commission President, Debbie Lieberman will address the group of
approximately 100 on Saturday, November 5th.  

The National Federation of the Blind of Ohio has fourteen local chapters,
one for at-large members, and special divisions for diabetics, merchants,
students, seniors, parents of blind children and those interested in
Braille.  Although blindness is still too often a tragedy to those who face
it, the organization advocates, from personal experience, that with training
and opportunity blindness can be reduced to the level of a physical
nuisance.  According to the organization, often the most serious problems
the blind face have less to do with their lack of 

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National Federation of the Blind of Ohio cont'd

vision and more to do with discrimination based on the public's ignorance
and misinformation

about blindness.  By educating Ohioans about the abilities and aspirations
of Ohio's blind citizens the National Federation of the Blind of Ohio are
changing what it means to be blind. 

"We are extremely proud to welcome the National Federation of the Blind of
Ohio to Dayton for their annual convention.  We applaud the organization and
its members for the outstanding work they have done in 'changing what it
means to be blind.'  There are many inspirational stories and we celebrate
the group's camaraderie and victories toward fulfilling their goal of
'seeing that blind people become first-class citizens of the United States,
enjoying their rights and fulfilling their responsibilities.' 

For more information on the event please contact the National Federation of
the Blind of Ohio www.nfbohio.org or 800-396-6326. 

The Dayton/Montgomery County Convention & Visitors Bureau, an independent,
non-profit organization funded by a county-wide customer hotel/motel bed
tax, serves as an economic catalyst by marketing and promoting the community
as THE Ohio destination and providing services for tourism events,
conventions, leisure and business travel and advocacy for destination
development.

 

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