From Walter Raineri:

Here is something a little different. Many have asked me to forward the link to the national radio program entitled "Our American Stories," which featured
a bit about my journey into blindness and how sailboat match racing fits into the larger puzzle of my life. The program aired October 4 across the United
States and the world, and I thought you might enjoy a little diversion from the norm. The link is www.ouramericannetwork.org/story?title=Walter-Raineri-Blind-Sailing.

BTW, the TV network CNN also produced a mini documentary about my team in the Blind Match Racing World Championships in which we won the Bronze Medal,
and I will forward that link as well when it airs nationally.

Calm seas and fair winds to you. Walt

The CCB historian writes:

We know that the only important event in 1934 was the formation of CCB. But the archives reveals this:

Companies Started: Amana-refrigeration, home and commercial; Fuji-film for the movie industry; Bay Meadows Racetrack in San Mateo County; Mutual Broadcasting
System: one of the big four broadcasters; first presentation dramas, The Lone Ranger and Superman; Muzak-music in department stores and elevators.

Patents: Glass cocktail shaker with strainer patented by Ray Cobel; service bay with hydraulic automobile lift by Guy Rosenbrook; three cone bit for oil
drilling by Hughes Tool Company; chain reaction design for the atomic bomb by Leo Szilard.

What things cost: average house--under $6000; average yearly wages--$1600; gallon of gas--10 cents; loaf of bread--8 cents; pound of hamburger--12 cents;
Studebaker truck--$625.

Miscellaneous: Alcatraz Island opened as federal prison; St Louis Cardinals won the world series; first Masters Golf Championship in Augusta Georgia; first
washateria opened in Fort Worth Texas; Babe Ruth, with an annual salary of $35,000, hit 700th home run; Congress decreed that sound reproduction records
would be the first non-embossed items eligible for mailing by Free Matter.

Jordan Mirander writes:

Hello all,

I really enjoyed myself at the East Los Angeles picnic of the California Council of the blind last summer. I did not expect to see as many people there.
I was not expecting to see anyone from Anaheim there. Andrea attended all the way from Anaheim. She and I probably commuted the most to get there because
she came from Anaheim and I came from Corona. Besides that, people were so nice!