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Two Win Courage Award From NCHSAA
Posted Friday, May 07, 2010
Two Win Courage Award From NCHSAA
Two student-athletes will be honored by the NC High School Athletic Association at its 2010 Annual Meeting with the NCHSAA's A.J. "Tony" Simeon Courage Award.
Nathan Baker of Green Hope High School and Tyler Forsythe of Apex will be presented Courage Awards at the Smith Center in Chapel Hill tonight.
The Courage Awa...
TALKING TRANSIT
Posted Friday, May 07, 2010
CITY COUNCIL TALKING TRANSIT, HOPING FOR HALF-CENT SALES TAX
By Will Huntsberry * Apr 24th, 2010 - Raleigh Public Record
Raleigh City Council had a special session Friday to discuss plans for commuter and light rail to be completed by 2031. Plans for such a system, which would stretch from Raleigh to Durham, Chapel Hill and potentially into Johnston County, have been in...
YouTube Video
Posted Saturday, April 24, 2010
YouTube link to an Associated Press report about kids at the Colorado Center for the Blind at a driving school driving cars on an obstacle course. Video
Target to sell Kindle Ebook Reader
Posted Saturday, April 24, 2010
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Target to sell the Kindle e.doc5,300 Housing Vouchers for Non-Elderly Persons with Disabilities
Posted Friday, April 16, 2010
5,300 Housing Vouchers for Non-Elderly Persons with Disabilities.
Information Bulletin #307 (4/2010).
Many of you remember the Information Bulletin issued on 6/30/09 announcing that HUD had issued a "Proposed Notice"? - $30 million for 4,000 housing vouchers for non-elderly disabled persons.
HUD received...
Helen Keller Exhibition in New York
Posted Friday, April 16, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) -- ''Cat, cat, cold, cold, doll, doll'' were Helen Keller's first handwritten words, and they represent an important moment in the remarkable life of a woman who helped bring about meaningful change for the disabled by writing incessantly to state Legislatures, Congress and presidents.
Written on a single page in a neat handwriting, the words are t...
Braille Displays Promise to Deliver the Web
Posted Saturday, April 10, 2010
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Illinois Blind school in danger of closing.
Posted Saturday, April 10, 2010
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IL school.docCongress Asked to Tear Down Bureaucratic Barriers to Jobs for People Who Are Blind in North Carolina
Posted Friday, March 19, 2010
Congress Asked to Tear Down Bureaucratic Barriers to Jobs for People Who Are Blind in North Carolina
Washington, D.C.- Representatives from RLCB, Inc (formerly Raleigh Lions Clinic for the Blind, led by Janet S. Griffey, President/CEO came to Washington, D.C. to urge Senators Hagan, Burr and Congressman Miller to join efforts to tear down barriers in the federal government that a...
Blind soldier 'sees' with tongue device
Posted Friday, March 19, 2010
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