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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.

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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...

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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.doc

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...

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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...

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Braille Displays Promise to Deliver the Web

Posted Saturday, April 10, 2010

Check out this website

Illinois Blind school in danger of closing.

Posted Saturday, April 10, 2010

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IL school.doc

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...

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Blind soldier 'sees' with tongue device

Posted Friday, March 19, 2010

To read the article, view the word doc or for a video report of this story, please visit http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/

Blind soldier.doc