[Mt-blind] Fw: [nfb-talk] DVD on White Cane Day Walk and Pedestrian Safety.

[James Aldrich]

This might be worthwhile to get or look into doing ourselves.

Jim Aldrich


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Evans" <drevans at bellsouth.net>
To: "Joe Minichiello" <jbmini at comcast.net>; "Kathy Davis" <DAVISK at dbcc.edu>; 
"Kathy Davis" <kdavisnfbf at cfl.rr.com>; "Dwight Sayer" <repcodds at aol.com>; 
<MisterAdvocate at aol.com>; "Tom Hartig" <Hartig at cfl.rr.com>; 
<bethmac at bellsouth.net>; "Marion Gwizdala" <swampfox1833 at verizon.net>; "Dan 
Hicks" <danjhicks at yahoo.com>; "Dan Hicks" <danjhicks at hotmail.com>; "Gloria 
Mills" <gloria at irescue-tax.com>; "Joanne Wilson" <jwilson at nfb.org>; 
<nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>; "dkentSS" <17 at worldnet.att.net>; "Deborah Kent Stein" 
<dkent5817 at worldnet.att.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 8:56 PM
Subject: [nfb-talk] DVD on White Cane Day Walk and Pedestrian Safety.


Dear All,

Two years ago.  The Palm Beach County Chapter of the NFB made a video DVD of 
their White Cane Walk event at the busiest and deadliest intersection in 
Palm Beach County.
Palm Beach County is the second deadliest county for pedestrians in the 
Nation.
The DVD has interviews and footage of our White cane Walk, including a visit 
by the local police who flat out tell us they have no interest in enforcing 
the White Cane Law and consider it too low a priority to bother with.
We stopped counting White Cane violations at 150 in less than 2 hours.
We could not even get the officer to write a ticket with over 45 violations 
taking place while he is standing there on the corner with us begging him to 
do something.
I just recently got the camera footage put on to a DVD and I now have a 
limited number of copies.
AS one of the issues we are taking to Tallahassee this year is greater 
enforcement of the White Cane and Guide Dog Laws.  This DVD could be a tool 
for us to use in our packet to give to key legislators.
We invited some students to come  and film our White Cane Walk as a student 
community service project.
I hope that all of you will think of using this approach too in the future.
Additionally, we had all of our attendees sign a release before the walk so 
that the footage could be used in the production of DVD's to be sent to TV 
and Media Outlets as (PSA)s Public Service Announcements.
I can send copies to Kathy, Joe, Dan and I will try to get more if you want 
them.
I can mail them or bring them to Washington.
Maybe Dan could even put it up for down load on our State web site.
Let me hear from you all.

David Evans, NFBF


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