[nfb-talk] Need Advice: Chapter Meeting Locations andProgramming

[kaye zimpher]

I think that is the way it should be. In our chapter, there is a lot of 
discomfort among the low-vision folks if a totally blind person wants to 
serve snacks. I remember being told once by someone at the table "you should 
let me do that because I can see." I'm sure the person meant no harm, but it 
is not exactly promoting the philosophy we believe. Snacks are definitely 
not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but that kind of bleeds over 
in to other topics.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "seville allen" <ceoallen at verizon.net>
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Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Need Advice: Chapter Meeting Locations 
andProgramming


> Those who want snacks go to the designated snack table and get them.  How
> the actual serving is done depends on who brought them.  Some of those who
> bring the snack serve it to each person; some who bring them, put them on
> the table and each person serves himself.  Sight isn't a factor in getting
> and /or serving snacks.
> Those with no vision ask which cookie is which, etc. and the group is 
> always
> told just before snack time what the food and beverage are.
> Sometimes blind serve sighted snackers and sometimes sighted serve blind.
>   who
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of kaye zimpher
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> andProgramming
>
> How are your snacks served? Does each member go to the snack table and get
> their own food or does the chapter solicit a volunteer from the crowd to
> serve. Is that person usually low-vision or are totally blind members up
> there serving food. I have a reason for asking these questions, but I'd 
> like
>
> to see responses first.
> Thank you
> Kaye
> ----- Original Message ----- 
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> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 9:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Need Advice: Chapter Meeting Locations
> andProgramming
>
>
>> Our chapter meets at a church where some of us are members.  That church
>> is
>> a block from a train station and on two bus lines.  It is also near
>> several
>> delis and a restaurant or three.
>>
>> We meet on Thursday evenings from 7:30 pm to about 9:30 pm.  We pay the
>> church $50 per meeting night (the room would rent for $150 to a 
>> nonmember)
>> We do sometimes have speakers from the community and we also have what we
>> call a philosophy time to discuss an nfb blindness issue and why we do
>> what
>> we do.
>> We do have a break and have snacks during that break--cookies, brownies,
>> fruit soda, water, whatever the volunteer chapter member brought for that
>> meeting.
>> Before meetings, some members get together for dinner.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Tina Hansen
>> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 5:18 PM
>> To: nfb-talk at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: [nfb-talk] Need Advice: Chapter Meeting Locations and 
>> Programming
>>
>> First off, I'm pleased to be back on the NFB lists after a long break.
>>
>> To get right to the point: I'm doing research into possible alternative
>> locations for our local chapter meeting, should our current location, a
>> room
>>
>> at the State School for the Blind, no longer be available. I also
>> recognize
>> that while some chapters have an ideal meeting place near an NFB training
>> center, others don't have that benefit.
>>
>> What other locations have local chapters found for meeting places, and 
>> how
>> much have they needed to charge? How did your chapter decide on this
>> location?
>>
>> When does your chapter meet, and for how long?
>>
>> What program items do you include at your chapter meetings, and how do 
>> you
>> keep things interesting so that members will keep coming back?
>>
>> If you have any ideas on how you've answered these questions, I'd be open
>> to
>>
>> hearing from you. Thanks.
>>
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