[BlindKid] FW: FW: [angelsonges] this happened right before easter

[Eric Calhoun]

Blind parents, what do you think?  Memphis area, at that?


Original Message: 
From: "Eric Calhoun" <eric at pmpmail.com>
To: blparent at nfbnet.org
Subject: FW: [angelsonges] this happened right before easter
Date: 
4/27/2019 1:42:38 PM

Blind parents, what do you think?  Memphis area, at that?


Original Message: 
From: "Arlene" <arlenes71154 at earthlink.net>
To: <angelsonges at groups.io>
Subject: [angelsonges] this happened right before easter
Date: 
Fri, 26 Apr 2019 14:43:43 -0500

Tennessee county holds 'beeping' Easter egg hunt for the visually
impaired
By Madeline Farber
Fox News
Operation Basket gives back to military families during the Easter
holiday Veterans and senior
citizens are teaming up to make Easter baskets to send to military
families. Officials
in Shelby County, Tenn . , hosted an Easter egg hunt for those who are
visually impaired.
The Shelby County Sheriff's Office in Memphis took to Facebook this week
to share
a post about the specialized Easter egg hunt, which was "the first of its
kind in
Memphis and Shelby County," the sheriff's office wrote. The hunt was made
possible by both the Shelby County Sheriff's Office's bomb squad and the
Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired. The eggs were
donated from
the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators, the
sheriff's
office said. Chassity Taylor, whose 5-year-old visually impaired son,
Bryson, participated
in the event, told 10 News  she was concerned her son would never be able
to take
part in the traditional activity - until now. But children weren't the
only ones
to participate. Lonnie Williams, 62, also took part, telling the news
station the
hunt was a nice change to the ones he had difficulty participating in as
a child.
"It was difficult not keeping up with the rest of the kids, not being
able to see
well," Williams said, noting the beeping hunt was his first without a
guide. "Being
blind and visually impaired there's a lot that goes into it already,"
Stephanie Jones,
with Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, which
co-hosted the event,
told News 10. "But when you get a cut off from those social interactions
you lose
confidence. " LOCALS DONATE CANDY TO ARKANSAS TOWN AFTER THIEF STEALS
STASH EARMARKED
FOR EASTER EGG HUNT Sgt. Judson Maxwell of Shelby County Sheriff's
Office's bomb
squad echoed Jones. "A lot of times the visually impaired are forgotten
people in
this community," Maxwell said. "Being able to see them out here doing it
for the
first time I think it's great. " Madeline Farber is a Reporter for Fox
News. You
can follow her on Twitter @MaddieFarberUDK. .



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