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Debra,

That would be wonderful.  

Ayauna is very positive.  However, it is the norm for her family to think
that she can not be productive as a blind person.  When I receive a phone
call from her, I will inquire if you can speak to her.  I think you would be
a benefit.  I am hoping that they come to our chapter meeting tonight.

Suzanne  

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Dear Suzanne,
What a chilling story and what a beautiful person you are to have recognized
it immediately as an opportunity to help. 
My dearest friend became blind as the result of a brutal attack 40 years
ago.  She, too, was left for dead, crawled to help, and was considered a
medical miracle. 
She lost her sight and her sense of smell, but never her spirit.  
Today, she is a mental health counselor, and works with felons, proudly
helping many to reclaim a life of decency.  
She is not a member of NFB or any organization, although she is a former NFB
scholarship winner.  I suspect she would be happy to speak with this young
woman to offer hope and guidance. If you want to set that up, contact me off
list and I'll help. Meanwhile, I'll talk to my friend so she is aware. 
Thank you for your generous spirit and the example you set.
Peace,
Deborah

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Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 10:06 PM
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Mercy! I hope and pray that by connecting with the NFB Ohio,Ayauna's Dreams
will be Transformed into Reality!
Thanks Suzanne!

On 10/17/17, Suzanne Turner via Ohio-Talk <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> All,
>
>
>
> I am so excited to be a part of the NFB and let me tell you why.
>
>
>
> Last week, I read an article about a young woman who was shot by her 
> boyfriend and left for dead.  As a result of this heinous act, she 
> lost her vision.  Ayauna Bush  is her name and she found an unexpected 
> new world that she knew little about.  Well, I immediately reached out 
> to
find her.
> I
> wrote to the news and television reporters to extended an invitation 
> to meet Ayauna.
>
>
>
> Today, the U.S Attorney Office contacted me and explained that Miss 
> Bush and her grandmother, Lisa Edwards are enthusiastic about meeting.
> I provided her lawyer the websites for Ohio and the Jernigan Institute 
> to read about the NFB.  I spoke to Ayauna today and she is excited 
> about the prospect of coming to the "Dream Convention".  How profound 
> is that!
>
>
>
> It will be an honor to meet her and they will be my guest.
>
>
>
> I have inserted the article below!
>
>
>
> Suzanne
>
>
>
>
> <http://media.cleveland.com/court-justice/photo/dezayelyjpg-6ad250a43d
> 371c07
> .jpg> Dezay Ely
>
> YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- At 19 years old, Ayauna Bush is forced to learn 
> how to live her life in a world that she can no longer see.
>
> The Akron woman was blinded when in 2016, the man she called her 
> boyfriend shot her in the head -- twice in the face and once in the 
> neck -- and left her in a secluded area in Cuyahoga Valley National Park
to die.
>
> "I don't know how to handle when my son hands me a book and asks me to 
> read it to him," Bush said.
>
> Bush's shooter, Dezay Ely,
> <http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2017/10/akron_man_se
> ntence d_to_life_fo.html> was sentenced Thursday to life in federal 
> prison. During his sentencing, she was able to face her aggressor with 
> her statement to the judge in an attempt to relieve a burden.
>
> The 19-year-old wore sunglasses and used a walking cane as loved ones 
> led her into the courtroom in Youngstown. Her family and pastor 
> surrounded her in the front row of the viewing gallery.
>
> Bush views the shooting as part of her redemption, a violent incident 
> at the hands of her lover that saved her from a life "on the streets" 
> where she met him. It is not without its struggles. Her blindness 
> required her to give up custody of her 3-year-old son to her 
> grandmother as she learns to live without her sight.
>
> "I am not going to let what happened to me hurt me for the rest of my 
> life,"
> Bush said.
>
> U.S. District Judge Benita Pearson told Ely, 28, that his history of 
> violence led her to reason that removing him from society for the rest 
> of his natural life was the only way to protect the public. She 
> rejected an argument from Ely's federal public defender that a 21-year 
> sentence was sufficient.
>
> Pearson called him a "public enemy" and said that "most people don't 
> look into the face of their victim and then shoot the face of the victim."
>
> Bush told the FBI that she and Ely, also of Akron, stayed at Ely's 
> brother's house the night prior to the shooting. They woke up early on 
> July 3, 2016 and Ely told her he wanted to test fire a gun he recently 
> bought.
>
> The couple, along with a third man, drove to a small field off 
> Akron-Peninsula Road in the national park. Ely asked Bush whether she 
> would tell anyone about a robbery that he planned to commit, according 
> to prosecutors.
>
> When they got to the field, Ely and Bush got out of the car. Ely said 
> the pistol jammed, then he shot Bush twice in the face and once in the 
> neck. He and the driver then left.
>
> "I prayed to the Lord until somebody came and helped me," Bush said.
>
> Joggers found
> <http://www.cleveland.com/brecksville/index.ssf/2016/07/investigators_
> seek_p ublics_hel.html> Bush, who carried no identification. Agents 
> identified her using phone records after one of her family members 
> called park rangers the day after the shooting and said Bush had been 
> missing for several days.
>
> Bush was placed in a medically-induced coma, 
> <http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2016/08/three_bullet
> s_two_ suspects_how.html> and the FBI was able to piece together a 
> case as she recovered.
>
> When she awoke, she told agents the name of her shooter.
>
> "I trusted Mr. Ely as you would trust anyone you would call a mate or 
> a friend," Bush said.
>
>
> <http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2017/05/akron_man_pl
> eads_g uilty_to_cuy.html> Ely pleaded guilty in May to attempted 
> murder, discharging a firearm during a crime of violence and being a 
> felon in possession of ammunition.
>
>
> <http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2017/07/suspected_dr
> iver_a cquitted_in.html> A jury acquitted the driver, Raymond Terry 
> Moore, of being an accomplice in July 2017, after he argued he did not 
> know Ely planned to shoot Bush when they got to the park.
>
> Assistant U.S. Attorney Kelly Galvin repeatedly used the word 
> "miracle" on Thursday to explain why Bush was still alive. She said 
> the joggers who found Bush were "angels ... wearing running shorts and 
> tennis shoes."
>
> Ely, on the other hand, acted with cowardice, Galvin said.
>
> "This case is as cold and calculated and premeditated as it can 
> possibly get," Galvin said.
>
> Ely has previous convictions in Summit County for involuntary 
> manslaughter, aggravated robbery and carrying a concealed weapon. He 
> was on probation after his release from prison when he shot Bush and 
> was held in jail as the FBI built its case.
>
> He told Bush during the sentencing that "I feel bad for what I did and 
> that's how I know it was wrong."
>
> Pearson said she had been prepared to give Ely 30 years -- a decade 
> for each bullet he fired -- but that his actions in court and in jail 
> after his arrest helped her decide that a harsher punishment is 
> warranted. The judge said Ely punched another inmate at a federal 
> holding facility in Youngstown and that he fashioned a shiv and hid it 
> in a book.
>
> He also told a jail guard earlier this month that he was going to 
> "grab you be the collar and choke you when you make your rounds" after 
> the guard told him he could not go to the jail's law library, Pearson
said.
>
> The judge made it clear near the end of the hearing that she thought 
> she made the right decision. As she read him the terms of his 
> probation -- just in case he was ever released -- Ely told the judge 
> she didn't need to continue talking since he already gave her a life
sentence.
>
> An incredulous Pearson instructed the deputy marshals to control Ely, 
> and they positioned themselves on either side of the podium where he 
> stood in an orange jumpsuit with his arms and legs shackled.
>
> "Don't tell me when I can or can't stop talking just because you will 
> be incarcerated for life, as deserved," Pearson snapped at Ely.
>
> But it was evident that Bush's statement made an impact on the judge 
> before the sentencing.
>
> Bush said she learned to to walk and talk again as she recovered from 
> the injuries that Ely gave her. She said she is optimistic that one 
> day she'll become a psychiatrist and start an organization to help
children.
>
> "At the end of the day, I just want justice and peace," Bush said.
>
> If you would like to comment on this story, please visit 
> <http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/10/comment_here_on_clev
> elandc om_c_541.html> Thursday's crime and courts comments section.
>
> View Comments
>
> 1.	 <http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/> Court & Justice
>
>
> Texas man accused of possessing 9 pounds of heroin in Medina County 
> traffic stop
>
>
> Updated on October 16, 2017 at 6:55 PMPosted on October 16, 2017 at 
> 6:45 PM
>
>
>
> A Texas man is charged in Cleveland federal court with possessing 
> nearly nine pounds of heroin during a Medina County traffic stop. 
> (File photo)
>
> 14 shares
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> By  <http://connect.cleveland.com/staff/emacdonald/posts.html> Evan 
> MacDonald, cleveland.com
>
>  <mailto:emacdonald at cleveland.com> emacdonald at cleveland.com
>
> CLEVELAND, Ohio - A Texas man is facing charges in federal court that 
> accuse him of possessing nearly nine pounds of heroin during a Medina 
> County traffic stop.
>
> Adan Gilberto Munoz, 33, of El Paso, was indicted in the U.S. District 
> Court for the Northern District of Ohio on one count of possession 
> with intent to distribute and one count of using a telephone to 
> facilitate commission of a felony, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in 
> a news release.
>
> "Law enforcement did a tremendous job of keeping thousands of doses of 
> heroin off the streets," U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman said in the 
> news release.
>
> State Highway Patrol troopers found roughly 8.8 pounds of heroin in 
> Munoz's car when they stopped it Aug. 8, federal prosecutors said.
>
> A Highway Patrol trooper stopped Munoz's Hyundai Veloster about 12:20 p.m.
> while it was traveling north on Interstate 71. Court records do not 
> say why the trooper stopped the car.
>
> Munoz was shaking and trembling when he told a trooper he did not have 
> his driver's license with him. A K-9 detected four bricks of heroin -- 
> each weighing more than two pounds -- in the car, prosecutors said.
>
> "With unified efforts between federal, state and local law enforcement 
> agencies, we will continue to combat drug trafficking and remove 
> criminals from our communities making it safer for the citizens of 
> Ohio," Highway Patrol superintendent Col. Paul A. Pride said in the news
release.
>
> Munoz later told a Drug Enforcement Administration agent that someone 
> in El Paso gave him a bag containing the heroin and asked him to take 
> it to Cleveland. Munoz told the investigator that he thought the bag 
> contained cocaine, court records say.
>
> "The seizure of four kilograms of heroin is significant," DEA Special 
> Agent in Charge Timothy Plancon said in the news release. "In this era 
> of daily heroin related overdoses, nothing is more important than 
> bringing the people that are distributing this poison within our 
> communities to justice."
>
> If you'd like to comment on this story, visit Monday's crime and 
> courts comments section.
> <http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/10/comment_here_on_clev
> elandc
> om_c_545.html#incart_river_index>
>
> View Comments
>
> 1.	 <http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/> Court & Justice
>
>
> Judge lifts gag order in KNR lawsuit, restores access to court records
>
>
> Updated on October 16, 2017 at 9:08 PMPosted on October 16, 2017 at 
> 5:06 PM
>
>
>
> The attorney for a University of Akron student accused of killing his 
> former roommate's cat is arguing for the diversion program for his 
> client. (File
> photo)
>
> 22 shares
>
> By  <http://connect.cleveland.com/staff/emacdonald/posts.html> Evan 
> MacDonald, cleveland.com
>
>  <mailto:emacdonald at cleveland.com> emacdonald at cleveland.com
>
> AKRON, Ohio - A Summit County judge on Monday issued a ruling that 
> lifted a gag order and granted access to court records in a lawsuit 
> that accuses the personal-injury firm Kisling, Nestico and Redick of
defrauding clients.
>
> KNR lawyers asked for the gag order earlier this year when Subodh 
> Chandra and Peter Pattakos, attorneys for three former KNR clients who 
> are suing the law firm, attached copies of emails from a former KNR 
> employee to court filings.
>
> The lawsuit claims the emails reveal how KNR engaged in an illegal 
> kickback scheme involving chiropractic firms. Lawyers for KNR -- who 
> have said those allegations are false -- argued that the emails 
> improperly disclosed client information.
>
> Summit County Common Pleas Judge Alison Breaux granted the gag order 
> March 29. Breaux directed the clerk of courts to remove records in the 
> case from an online docket, and prohibited attorneys from speaking 
> publicly about the case.
>
> Lawyers representing cleveland.com filed a petition 
> <http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/05/lawyers_for_clevelan
> dcom_a sk_a_1.html>  May 21 that asked an appellate court to lift the 
> gag order.
> The complaint argued that the gag order violated the First Amendment 
> and impaired the ability of Advance Ohio, cleveland.com's parent 
> company, to report the news.
>
> Pattakos said Monday that he was pleased with the judge's decision.
>
> "We're glad the judge saw through the defendants' efforts to restrain 
> our speech and our ability to investigate our clients' claims," he said.
>
> Breaux wrote in her decision to lift the gag order that the court 
> issued a protective order Sept. 12 that made the gag order 
> unnecessary. That protective order is a standard order that protects 
> confidential information during the discovery process, Pattakos said.
>
> Rob A. Nestico, a managing partner at KNR, said he also supports the 
> judge's decision to lift the gag order because he believes the 
> protective order will keep client information secure as the discovery 
> process moves forward.
>
> KNR has filed a counterclaim
> <http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/05/knr_suing_former_emp
> loyee_ over.html#incart_m-rpt-1>  that says a former employee stole 
> the emails, which contain proprietary information, and provided them 
> to the plaintiffs'
> attorneys.
>
> "We're obligated, as lawyers, to fight that way," Nestico said. "As 
> long as client information isn't disclosed, that's our main concern."
>
> Pattakos, though, questioned why KNR lawyers opposed the plaintiffs'
> efforts
> to have the gag order removed, and why KNR did not withdraw its 
> opposition once the judge granted the protective order.
>
> The Ohio Supreme Court recognizes strict First Amendment standards 
> that prohibit courts from sealing records or imposing gag orders 
> unless the person requesting them shows "by clear and convincing 
> evidence" that their interest in shielding the information outweighs 
> the public's rights to access records. Advance Ohio's petition said 
> Breaux granted the order without holding KNR to that burden.
>
> Advance Ohio's petition was filed by Patrick Kabat and Andrew 
> Geronimo, lawyers with the First Amendment and the Arts Project, a new 
> clinical initiative of the Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology and 
> the Arts at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
>
> The lawsuit against KNR says the law firm intentionally deceived and 
> defrauded clients with kickback schemes 
> <http://www.cleveland.com/akron/index.ssf/2017/03/class-action_suit_cl
> aims_p erso.html>  involving chiropractors and the now-defunct loan 
> company Liberty Capital Funding. The law firm charged an 
> "investigation fee" for work that was never performed, and for basic 
> clerical services that are not legally chargeable to clients, the suit 
> says.
>
> Nestico said Monday that KNR feels the lawsuit is baseless, and that 
> the law firm's lawyers will soon file documents in the case that will 
> dispel "false allegations" made in the lawsuit.
>
> "I'm relieved that the judge lifted the gag order, because the public 
> needs to know the truth," he said.
>
> If you'd like to comment on this story, visit Monday's crime and 
> courts comments section.
> <http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/10/comment_here_on_clev
> elandc
> om_c_545.html#incart_river_index>
>
>

--
Wishing You All the Best,

Cheryl E. Fields

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life
when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
--D. Elton Trueblood

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