[Vabs] Virginia Student Leadership Opportunities

[Corbb O'Connor]

Hi Virginia students!

The weekend of October 23-25, 2009, the NFBV will again be hosting  
blind and visually-impaired high school students at the National  
Center for the Blind in Baltimore for a weekend of fun, leadership  
training, and social activities. If you are interested in  
participating and are in high school, please contact me off-list and I  
will send you the paperwork. Financial assistance for this event is  
made possible by a grant from the NFB Imagination Fund.

Secondly, the NFB of Delaware (no, that's not a typo) will hold their  
state convention the weekend of October 23-25, 2009...yes, the same  
weekend. We Virginians have been invited to participate, and I am  
sending Catherine's offer on to you. If you have questions, please  
send them directly to Catherine (her e-mail is below). I won't be able  
to attend, as I'll be at the student event in Baltimore.

Hope the academic year is off to a good start for all of you!
--Corbb O'Connor


P.S. There is a Braille literacy crisis in America, where only about  
10 percent of Blind people know how to read and write Braille. For the  
whole story, and to help by purchasing the 2009 Commemorative Silver  
Dollar featuring Louis Braille, please take a moment to visit: www.Braille.org 
  -- Thanks!



Begin forwarded message:

From: 	nabs_delawaredivision at yahoo.com
Subject: 	Catherine From Delaware

To: 	corbbo at gmail.com


Our group will be having our state convention in October 23 -24 and  
the student division convention is on the Friday.  And we would like  
to invite you and a group of your students to join US at our  
convention. I have also invited Jersey, Pa., and Maryland. Hopefully  
you can bring a few of your students with you. Please let me know IF  
you all would like to attend and I will send you more information as  
it comes out.

I organized the group back in February and have only had 5 people  
involved. Our state division for visually impaired department really  
does not want to help us ( like most agency). At the end of last month  
we tryed to have a outreach pool party for students which I have let  
every middle,high, and college school counselor in our state know  
about which  the pool party bust because the state agency did not send  
the invitation out in time.

One of the fundraiser that is going on now is that we are selling  
Entrainment Books they are $30 and you can buy them either way you  
would from the website which has been attached at the bottom of this  
email or  they can send direct to me and I can give them to you all  
when I see you. Thanks for your support.

Please contact me and let me know if you have any ideas that can help  
this group grow. Hope to hear from you soon.

Sincerely Yours,
Catherine Newman
302 384 6879
  http://www.fundraising.entertainment.com/esale2.cfm?CI=953897&SI=678037&LI=1