[Nfb-kzoo] Update

Tue Jan 27 13:00:51 UTC 2009

Tyler, 
You are doing a great job!  
I love both of your fund raiser ideas.  
I am especially excited about doing a small play.  Man, that would be
such a blast.  

Now, to get the logo and ideas for how to designate the local chapter, I
would suggest that you give a call to Joanne Wilson.  She is in charge
of affiliate action, and that is us.  

I don't know her extension, but you can call the NFB office 
(410) 659-9314; just hit 0 and ask for Joanne Wilson.  

You are doing a fantastic job!  
I guess that Corda and I need to get to work on contacting those radio
stations too.  

Thanks Tyler.

Best Regards,
Christine

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-kzoo-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-kzoo-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Tyler merren
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 7:48 AM
To: NFB of Kalamazoo Michigan List
Subject: [Nfb-kzoo] Update

Hey Everyone,
I wanted to give you an update on my portion of the tasks and such that
we are all working on.  I spoke with the MBAA and made our intentions
clear to them that we wished to help them with our donation of $300 for
their match grant situation.  They were receptive to this, and the only
thing left is to work the details as to how we will have the money on
hand for the social event.  I have been told that Roma's pizza (which I
have never tried) has offered to beat anyones offer for our social
event, so they may be the place to go to, but we'll have to see what
their pizza taste like first.  I asked Tim and Jacky (since they live
close to Roma's) to give them a try sometime and let me know, I don't
know if anyone else has had it before?

I need to give the "NFB" logo to Nicole Buck to have it put on the back
of the T-shirts for the tournament.  I'm pretty sure that the NFB has a
logo, but she also said that we should have it indicate the Kalamazoo
chapter in some way or other.  If anyone has any ideas on this, I would
appreciate it.  I thought that I may be able to just paste the logo and
put Kalamazoo underneath it or something like that.

I have 2 ideas for fund raisers in mind, so my other 3 will come soon
hopefully.  The one is basic, but I thought that raffling off something
really cool, like a Plasma TV or something like that, something general
public, would be a big draw.  The other idea that I had is much more
long term and idealistic, but I thought that it would be really really
neat to put together a skit...a play of sorts, a performance for the
general public about the lives of different blind people.  We could have
a show, and put it on for the public and charge a ticket amount, make it
a community event.  I'm thinking that I could get a few theater students
at WMU to help me put something together.  Maybe this is a bit lofty,
but just a brainstorm idea.

Beyond that, I have yet to contact the local Newspapers and News
stations about the Kalamazoo tournament, but it is on my "To Do List" so
that will be soon.

I hope things are going well for the rest of you, and we'll see you in a
few weeks.
Tyler
President of NFB of Kalamazoo
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