[nfbwatlk] Family Fun Day At the Park

Kaye Kipp kkipp123 at msn.com
Sun Aug 30 13:23:06 UTC 2009


It sounds like it went really well.  I hope that lady at least check us out.

Kaye
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kristina Lawrence" <tishgifts at gmail.com>
To: "NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List" <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 10:56 PM
Subject: [nfbwatlk] Family Fun Day At the Park


> Hello All,
>
> I just want to take a quick moment and say a big THANK YOU to Ivan and
> Kay Burrows who showed up and helped with the Family Fun Day at the
> Park in Bremerton today. While the event may not have been as exciting
> and active as we may have hoped, we did give out plenty of Braille
> alphabet cards, books, taught a person or two the basics on Braille
> and so forth. We stressed the importance of purchasing the Louis
> Braille Coin and generally had a fun and relaxing afternoon.
>
> One contact that was madw as the type of contact that makes an entire
> day worthwhile no matter how many or few people you meet during the
> day. We met a wonderful young lady, Genevia I think, who is dealing
> with retinal detachment and tears. She is 14 and very poised. Lots of
> personal sparkle and very open to figuring things out. We gave her
> literature, braille alphabet cards and most important time. We told
> her about Youth SLAMS, summer "camps" and so much fun stuff that is
> happening around the NFB for young kids. We told her about the
> convention and the web page. She took all the information and left
> with a beautiful smile on her face. She and her family did not know
> that we were going to be there, they were just at the park for the
> day. I hope that she will contact us. She was leary of giving us her
> contact information, and I totally understood that. But we gave her
> ours and I believe that she will look it up.
>
> Look for more fun and interesting things happening in the Kitsap
> County area as well as around the state.
>
> Thanks again for all those who helped out.
>
> Kris Colcock
> President, NFBW Greater Seattle Chapter
> 1 VP, NFBW
>
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