[Nfbf-l] Fwd: White Cane Safety Day Event In Orlando!!!

Judith Hamilton jrhamilton51 at earthlink.net
Sat Oct 9 09:54:32 UTC 2010 

Good luck with your event.
Judy




> [Original Message]
> From: Joe and Kitty King <joenkitty at earthlink.net>
> To: NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
> Date: 10/8/2010 4:06:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] Fwd: White Cane Safety Day Event In Orlando!!!
>
> David, I am impressed with  the outreach of Palm Beach County.  The
event, 
should be very informative.

Polk Chapter is holding its White Cane & Guide Dog event, tomorrow, 
Saturday, October 9.  We, too, will circumvent a busy intersection.  The 
City mayor will be present to read the Proclamation and there will be
police 
, on hand.  Lunch will follow.

Take care--and good luck!

Kitty
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> Dear All,
>
> The Palm Beach County Chapter, of the National Federation of the Blind, 
> will be staging it's White Cane Safety Day on Friday, October 29, with a 
> demonstration at the very busy intersection of Congress Ave. and Forest 
> Hill Blvd.
> This location will bring us together with no less than 4 police 
> departments, who be observing and enforcing the White Cane Law for us. 
We 
> will circumnavigate the intersection, with the change of the lights, with 
> our White Canes, Guide Dogs and friends from 10 AM to 1:00 PM.
> We will have a Press Conference at Noon and the reading of a Proclamation.
> The rally address is 1733 South Congress Ave. and there will be an 
> information table, chairs and a water station.  Afterwards we will have 
> lunch at one of the cafes in the shopping center on the corner.
> We will be passing out copies of the White Cane Law to drivers and 
> passersby.  We have invited many other groups and organizations to come 
> and join us and increase awareness of the White Cane Law.
> The TV Media will be in attendance
>
> On October 16, we will be taking part in our 5TH. annual "Dining in the 
> Dark" event in Support of the Florida Outreach Center for the Blind. 
More 
> than 150 people are expected at this years event and honors such as the 
> Doctor Thomas Hardig Award will be presented to a deserving Blind person 
> who has done great work in our area to advance the lot of Blind People .
> On October 5, We will be receiving a Proclamation from our County 
> Commissioner proclaiming the Month of October as Blindness Awareness
Month 
> and The observance of our White Cane Safety Day.
>
> David Evans, NFBF and GD Jack.
>
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>> LIghthouse Central Florida Is Planning a White Cane Safety Day Event on
>> Friday Oct. 15, 2010 .
>> They are planning refreshments and the whole Gig. More information to
>> follow from Mary Clark at Lighthouse. If you want to contact her call
>> 407-898-2483
>>
>> White Cane Safety Day: A Symbol of Independence
>> by Marc Maurer
>> In February of 1978 a young blind lady said, “I encounter people all
of 
>> the
>> time who bless me, extol my independence, call me brave and courageous,
>> and  thoroughly miss the boat as to what the real significance of the 
>> white
>> cane  is.”
>> The National Federation of the Blind in convention assembled on the 6th 
>> day
>> of July, 1963, called upon the governors of the fifty states to proclaim
>> October 15 of each year as White Cane Safety Day in each of our fifty
>> states.  On October 6, 1964, a joint resolution of the Congress, HR 753, 
>> was
>> signed  into law authorizing the President of the United States to 
>> proclaim
>> October 15  of each year as “White Cane Safety Day.” This resolution 
>> said: “
>> Resolved by  the Senate and House of Representatives…, that the
President 
>> is
>> hereby  authorized to issue annually a proclamation designating October 
>> 15 as
>> White  Cane Safety Day and calling upon the people of the United States 
>> to
>> observe  such a day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.”
>> Within hours of the passage of the congressional joint resolution
>> authorizing the President to proclaim October 15 as White Cane Safety 
>> Day, then
>> President Lyndon B. Johnson recognized the importance of the white cane 
>> as a
>> staff of independence for blind people. In the first Presidential White 
>> Cane
>> Proclamation President Johnson commended the blind for the growing spirit
>> of independence and the increased determination to be self-reliant that 
>> the
>> organized blind had shown. The Presidential proclamation said:
>> The white cane in our society has become one of the symbols of a blind
>> person’s ability to come and go on his own. Its use has promoted
courtesy 
>> and
>> special consideration to the blind on our streets and highways. To make 
>> our
>> people more fully aware of the meaning of the white cane and of the need
>> for  motorists to exercise special care for the blind persons who carry 
>> it
>> Congress, by a joint resolution approved as of October 6, 1964, has 
>> authorized
>> the President to proclaim October 15 of each year as White Cane Safety
>> Day.
>> Now, therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of
>> America do hereby proclaim October 15, 1964 as White Cane Safety Day.
>> With those stirring words President Johnson issued the first White Cane
>> Proclamation which was the culmination of a long and serious effort on 
>> the
>> part of the National Federation of the Blind to gain recognition for the
>> growing independence and self-sufficiency of blind people in America,
and 
>> also
>> to gain recognition of the white cane as the symbol of that independence 
>> and
>> that self-reliance.
>> The first of the state laws regarding the right of blind people to travel
>> independently with the white cane was passed in 1930. In 1966, Dr. 
>> Jacobus
>> tenBroek, the founder of the National Federation of the Blind, drafted 
>> the
>> model White Cane Law. This model act--which has become known as the Civil
>> Rights Bill for the Blind, the Disabled, and the Otherwise Physically
>> Handicapped-–contains a provision designating October 15 as White Cane 
>> Safety
>> Day. Today there is a variant of the White Cane Law on the statute books 
>> of
>> every state in the nation.
>> From 1963 (and even before) when the National Federation of the Blind
>> sought to have White Cane Safety Day proclaimed as a recognition of the 
>> rights
>> of blind persons, to 1978 when a blind pedestrian met with 
>> misunderstanding
>> regarding the true meaning of the white cane, is but a short time in the
>> life  of a movement. In 1963, a comparatively small number of blind 
>> people had
>> achieved sufficient independence to travel alone on the busy highways of
>> our  nation. In 1978 that number has not simply increased but multiplied 
>> a
>> hundredfold. The process began in the beginning of the organized blind
>> movement and continues today. There was a time when it was unusual to
see 
>> a
>> blind person on the street, to find a blind person working in an office, 
>> or to
>> see a blind person operating machinery in a factory. This is still all 
>> too
>> uncommon. But it happens more often and the symbol of this independence 
>> is
>> the  white cane. The blind are able to go, to move, to be, and to compete
>> with all  others in society. The means by which this is done is that 
>> simple
>> tool, the  white cane. With the growing use of the white cane is an added
>> element–-the  wish and the will to be free–-the unquenchable spirit
and 
>> the
>> inextinguishable  determination to be independent. With these our lives 
>> are
>> changed, and the  prospects for blind people become bright. That is what 
>> White
>> Cane Safety Day  is all about. That is what we do in the National 
>> Federation
>> of the Blind
>> _Model  White Cane Law_
>> (http://www.nfb.org/nfb/model_white_cane_bill.asp?SnID=1772185191)
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