[Ohio-talk] great message about one of our chapters

[barbara.pierce9366 at gmail.com]

Nice work, Chanel. 
Barbara
Barbara Pierce 
President Emerita
National Federation of the Blind of Ohio
Barbara.pierce9366 at gmail.com
440-774-8077
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> On Jun 12, 2016, at 2:57 AM, Suzanne Turner via Ohio-Talk <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Chanel,
> The Cleveland chapter is very proud of you! We know you will do a wonderful job!
> Suzanne
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Jun 11, 2016, at 10:49 PM, richard via Ohio-Talk <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello President pain,
>> 
>> This is Chenelle, the new vice president of the Summit County Chapter here
>> in Akron Ohio. Earlier this afternoon at 1:30 Eastern standard time. The
>> summit county chapter of the Ohio in FB had elections to replace The former
>> vice president, secretary and treasurer of the summit county chapter. The
>> president of the summit county chapter is, Mary Weldon, the vice president
>> is, Chenelle Hancock, the treasure if Nicollis Abrahamson and the secretary
>> is Mark. We discussed old business which included: electing new officers
>> within the chapter, fundraising ideas and other community organizations for
>> which are chapter can collaborate with to continue to spread the word of the
>> Federation to others within the Summit County area. We also agreed to have
>> events outside of her chapter meetings in order to be able to get to know
>> one another is members and people. I will be hosting a cookout on the 20th
>> of this month at my home here in Akron and our members will be bringing gas
>> so we can spread the philosophy of the Federation and a social gathering and
>> maybe we will be able to recruit more members for our chapter this way.. We
>> also will be collaborating with the coal I institute the blind center here
>> in Akron along with the veterans association and other organizations as well
>> throughout the summer in order to spread the word of the Federation and to
>> bring awareness of blindness related issues to the community at large. We
>> also created a Facebook page for our chapter is well. It is called Nfb
>> Summit so when you go to Facebook you can search under Nfb Summit in order
>> to find us we will also be live streaming our meetings for people that
>> cannot attend our meetings are for people that would like to watch The
>> meeting on Facebook. We also have one new member this month as well. We also
>> plan on introducing some of the members that are not technology savvy to the
>> iPhone and email so they can have their own email account in their own
>> Facebook account. For which a lot of our members have taken's of the
>> suggestions with great enthusiasm. I will be contacting the national office
>> on Monday morning in order for them to send me updated Nfb literature so I
>> can pass it out to people within the community and to our chapter members
>> for which do not have access to Nfb literature of their own. I'm also
>> considering bringing up to Mary's attention I wanted to see if either
>> yourself or Barbra pierce could come during the anniversary of the ADA next
>> month to speak at our chapter meeting. If you would be able to attend Mr.
>> President that would be a tremendous support to our chapter. Because there
>> are many people that do not know of your existence and who you are as a
>> fellow Federation is the president of our affiliate. And if you needed a
>> place to stay you are more than welcome to stay at my residence during your
>> time here in Akron. Get back to me at your earliest convenience if you were
>> able to attend or not. I'm sorry that I will not be able to be in Florida
>> this summer for the 76 annual national Federation of the blind convention at
>> the Rosen shingle Creek Hotel. But I will be there next year and I will be
>> there for our state convention this year. I will come up the day before and
>> spend the weekend with my grandma and aunt Debbie that way I don't have to
>> pay money for a hotel. I could just come up and pay for the banquet. I will
>> send you a report next month to let you know about our chapter meeting and I
>> also did except the position of liaison between the membership committee for
>> the stain and the summit county chapter. And I did talk to Rachel as well
>> just to let you know. Take care president pain and God bless you and yours.
>> 
>> Sincerely, vice president of the Summit County Chapter chenelle Hancock.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone=
>> 
>> 
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