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[juliekazz@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Your dream for helping the blind is commendable and do-able, All you need is 
the desire which you obviously have. No permission is needed and I am sure 
there are a lot of willing folks willing to help. There is a Caneo-A-Thon this 
weekend sponsored by the Varina Lions Club called Paddling for Sight-you might 
want to participate or just go out there to meet up with people who have your 
"vision." The flyer about the paddle states to contact Buz Snyder at 795-1446.

Julie Kacmarcik

"Life is either a great adventure, or nothing."
-Helen Keller

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From: "katya" <katya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 

Dear Bird and Nature Lovers,
I have a dream of working with the blind; of doing a special Audubon program 
and walks for the blind.  Is anyone else interested?  I wouldn't even cross the 
street without corrective lenses.  I'd like to do such an impressive program 
that it gained National notoriry.  It would takes months to prepare.  Do you 
realize how left-out of this world blind peope feel?  Hardly any of them vote.  
I would be one of them if it weren't for corrective lenses.  My eyes 
uncorrected are somewhere between 20-800 and 20-1000.   You would have to 
project an E chart of the side of a barn for me to almost make out the big E in 
focus.  I have so many ideas.  Most of my learning about birds has been by 
sound.  I am 20-20 corrected and you'd never know this now if I didn't tell 
you.  Is anyone else interested in this emorous projecct?  I can only pull if 
off with your help and permission.  I dream of this.

With all sincerity,
Sighted only by correction,,
Kate Holzback
South of the James

P.S. Splain it to me, Lucy, why the Blind poet Homer Descrided ""the 
rosy-fingered dawn"?  He was as sighted as I, no more.  Anybody feel the 
possibilities here?
Pleaese, please, don't blow me off. Please, please, take me seriously.