[nagdu] National Convention--my opinion

Tue Jul 9 23:45:51 UTC 2013

The last couple of years at state convention, I have helped monitor relief 
areas. I have helped other conventioneers who couldn't bend over easily or 
were having a hard time find there dog's leavings. I will also talk to the 
hotel staff and find out what issues they might be having and helping with 
them. We have only had 11 dogs or so, but its a start!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "melissa R green" <graduate56 at juno.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] National Convention--my opinion


> that would be nice.
> Years ago, I know that there was someone that monitored the relief areas 
> at
> convention.
>
> Blessings,
> Melissa Green and PJ
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Margo and Arrow" <margo.downey at verizon.net>
> To: "'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'"
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 1:55 PM
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>
> Hi, Danielle.  I know what you mean by the topics you raised.
>
> A C B uses a company or two whose only job is to deal with relief areas.
> I'd like for Nagdu to figure out how to do the same thing.  I apprecaite 
> the
> work our national Center does to ensure adequate relief areas, but, I'd 
> like
> to see a company who does this type of work do this type of work for us.
>
> Margo and Arrow
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Danielle A.
> Creapeau
> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 3:47 PM
> To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nagdu] National Convention--my opinion
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> It was awesome meeting some of you at convention last week. Valla and I
> didn't attend Monday night's NAGDU meeting because she got snapped at by 
> not
> 1 but 2 dogs. I'm the first to admit that she did distract on these other
> dogs but I corrected and we were almost past them when they jumped out 
> from
> under their handlers' chairs and tried to come at her. Needless to say, 
> she
> was way too wound up to go anywhere after that.
> Anyway, I noticed a lot of things during the week that shocked me, made me
> think and made me very happy. First of all, I'll say that this was my 
> first
> convention so I don't know if some of these things are commonplace at
> convention or not. I was sort of shocked by the size of the park area for
> the dogs. It was about the size of a single parking space and from what I
> understand, there were a couple hundred dogs in attendance. I felt that 
> this
> was way too small of a space for all those dogs. Not to mention that it's
> filled with sand which gets pretty sludgy with waste and rain water. Valla
> wouldn't set foot in the box and I didn't blame her. As I understand it, 
> the
> White Cane fund takes care of the park areas and I also am aware that it
> costs money to set up these relief areas. Is there anything that we as a
> division can be doing to make the area bigger or cleaner? Furthermore, as
> the week went on, I noticed a lot of accidents near the escalators that 
> were
> just left behind for someone else to clean up. Valla had her accidents as
> well; I'm not saying that they don't happen but I thought we were supposed
> to try to clean them up and tell someone from the hotel staff about it. I
> know that these were near escalators but I feel like that's no excuse. If
> you're at the bottom of the escalator when it happens, step aside and let
> people through but don't just walk away.
> That being said, I'm sure there were plenty of handlers who did stand by 
> the
> messes and did their best to clean them up.
> I was really surprised by the amount of people who were on phones, eating,
> talking or goofing off while working their dogs too. again, not trying to
> imply that these things don't happen but it was frustrating when someone
> else was too busy doing something else while his or her dog distracted on
> other people or dogs.
> I did, however, meet a whole bunch of people who genuinely inspired me 
> with
> the bonds they have with their dogs and the way they worked as a team. 
> Valla
> and I just met in October of 2012 so we're still feeling each other out. 
> It
> was just amazing to see teams that flow together so beautifully.
> anyway, that's just my take on the week. Hope everyone's having a good
> Tuesday.
>
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