Welcome to the CCB Courier for January 17, 2025.
From CCB Governmental Affairs:
The 2025 American Council of the Blind (ACB) Leadership Conference will be a hybrid event. ACB’s Board Meeting, Presidents’ Meeting, Legislative Seminar, and Capitol Hill visits will take place March 14th-18th, at the Sheraton Pentagon City Hotel in Arlington, VA. Visit the ACB conference page for details:
https://www.acb.org/acb-2025-leadership-conference
Please consider going in person to help CCB advocate for our issues. Please let Ardis Bazyn know if you can attend in person:
Ardis Bazyn abazyn@bazyncommunications.com
Or call Regina Brink at (916)393-0662.
From Inclusive Diversity of California:
Greetings IDC members and friends,
Save the date… Sunday, February 23at 4:00 PM Pacific time (7:00 PM Eastern)
Our Black History Month program is only a month away. Stay tuned for details.
From the Audio Internet Reading Service of Los Angeles.
Start off 2025 with upcoming Technology in the January 11, Popular Science read by Michael Piotrasch. How about an Air Taxi? Do you find airplane cabins uncomfortably hot? The FAA is planning to do something about it.
https://airsla.org/all-podcasts/popular-science/
Brian Lemon brings us an article from Discover magazine. Hear about President Abraham Lincoln’s interest in astronomy. He visited the U.S. refractor telescope in Foggy Bottom. Cool name!
https://airsla.org/all-podcasts/discover-magazine-2/
Attention CCB Special Interest Affiliates:
Our pre-convention activities will take place virtually from April 21 through the 28th. We are asking for programming information to be submitted no later than February 15, which will allow us to generate and disseminate the schedule in a timely manner.
Please submit your program descriptions, along with any date preferences, to Andrea DeKlotz Convention Co-chair at:
Catmom3260@gmail.com or call me at 714-921-0289
What Will be the Theme for the 2025 CCB Virtual Convention?
It’s your convention, so you pick the theme. Please submit your theme suggestions to Andrea DeKlotz using the above contact information by February 15. The winner will receive free convention registration.
Request for Information
Joe Dorey (919) 760-3719 would like to know any information about Alln Gummerus. Joe has known Alan since the first grade but lost touch when Alan’s Apartment building change management companies. Joe did give me permission to post his phone number. He is in Raleigh North Carolina.
Courier Submissions:
In order to submit an item, please provide the message either to the office or to Andrea DeKlotz directly at 714-921-0289 or submit.happenings@ccbnet.org by 5:00 pm on Wednesday before the happenings is recorded. Also, please make sure your message states in the subject line that it is for the Happenings, or it may be missed.
THE EDITOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO EDIT ANY ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE SAKE OF SPACE.
Thank you for reading.
