GENERAL NEWS -- IMPORTANT: FCC - VRS Non-compete Issue -- GOING ON VACATION? -- Water Tower View Apartments -- 2007 Performances at the Commonweal Theatre -- Aug 17: BlackBerry 101 - How to Use Your BlackBerry -- Aug 17-19: CDHH Family Learning Vacation, Lions Camp -- Aug 18: 2nd Annual Four Clubs Deaf Picnic -- Aug 30-Sep 3: 5th Midwest Timberfest of the Deaf -- Oct 1: CONTEST- Broadband Changed My Life! -- Oct 27: WTCI Community Gathering -- Dec 31: New Years Eve 2007 -- 2008: Northcentral Technical College Reunion ================================================ IMPORTANT: FCC - VRS Non-compete Issue Ed Bosson just did an Alert on www.edsalert.com on important issue called VRS’s “non-compete clause”. Check out vlog on "FCC seeks comments on non-compete clause". It is important that you comment about this. (Contributed by: Jack Cassell, WADNet Reader) ================================================ GOING ON VACATION? Please let your WADNet Post Editor keep her sanity this summer...thanks! If you go on vacation, use this REALLY COOL little tool: the Vacation Flag. It will temporarily stop your WADNet Post email while you are away. After you return, you can set it back to normal again. Nice, huh? No overflowing email from WADNet Post when you come back! Here's how: TO GO ON VACATION: Send an email: TO: ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx SUBJECT: "set wadnetpost vacation" (don't include the quotes) Leave the rest of the email blank. You will remain subscribed to the list but will not receive any email as long as this flag is set. You should get a reply email telling you "flag successfully set". Happy Travels! TO COME BACK FROM VACATION: Send an email: TO: ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx SUBJECT: "unset wadnetpost vacation" (don't include the quotes) Leave the rest of the email blank. You should get a reply telling you "flag was successfully unset". Welcome home! If you have trouble with this tool, or if you have questions, just ask me. I am happy to help! Thanks, everybody! (Contributed by: Leslie Riggs, WADNet Post Editor) ================================================ Water Tower View Apartments Water Tower View Apartments for the Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Deaf/Blind seniors 1 and 2 bedroom floor plans. Beautifully designed for your needs, carpeted, all appliances, Washer-dryer hook-up, underground parking. Many Community activities to choose from Prices range from $665-$850 heat included Apply for a position on our waiting list - must be income qualified Contact Carol TTY/VP 888-532-4107 or Katie TTY/VP 888-532-4135 Equal Housing Opportunity Katie Voss, Housing Consultant Cardinal Capital Management, Inc. 135 South 84th St., Suite 100 Milwaukee WI 53214 TTY/VP: 888.532.4135 VP IP Address: 75.100.117.42 Office: 414.727.9902 Fax: 414.727.9731 kvoss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.cardinalcapital.us (Contributed by Katie Voss, Cardinal Capital Management, Inc.) ================================================ 2007 Performances at the Commonweal Theatre Please join us for American Sign Language interpreted performances of all of our mainstage productions in 2007. Patrons in need of interpreter services will receive a 50% discount on all tickets, courtesy of the Commonweal and VSA arts of Minnesota For reservations, call 800-657-7025 or email tickets@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Visit www.CommonwealTheatre.org for more information. Jill Underwood Resident Company Member Commonweal Theatre www.commonwealtheatre.org 507-467-2905 x206 Use www.goodsearch.com and select Commonweal Theatre Company as your designated cause. We'll get a penny every time you search! "Wait Until Dark" by Frederick Knott - September 16 at 2pm - in our new theatre! "Uncle Vanya" by Anton Chekhov - November 4 at 2pm - in our new theatre! "Inspecting Carol" by Daniel Sullivan - December 16 at 2pm - in our new theatre! Patrons in need of interpreter services will receive a 50% discount on all tickets, courtesy of the Commonweal and VSA arts of Minnesota. For reservations, call 800-657-7025 or email tickets@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Website: www.CommonwealTheatre.org Jill Underwood Resident Company Member Commonweal Theatre www.commonwealtheatre.org (Contributed by: Jill Underwood, Commonweal Theatre) ================================================== Aug 17: BlackBerry 101 - How to Use Your BlackBerry Blackberry 101 – How to use your Blackberry? Workshop provided by Mike Finneran, Sprint Relay *UP TO 40 PEOPLE. FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE BASIS* WHEN: August 17, 2007 TIME: 7pm WHERE: Holiday Inn Express – Janesville I-90 & US HWY 14 3100 Wellington Place Janesville, WI 53546 UNITED STATES Hotel Front Desk: 1-608-756-3100 / Hotel Fax: 1-608-756-3111 (A message was given to me for anyone who takes Hwy I-90... Take Hwy I-90/Hwy 14 to Janesville. Make sure you take Hwy 14 EAST from Hwy I-90 because Janesville has two signs of Hwy 14 west/east. Thanks.) RSVP: Contact Faye Peters at Faye4Sprint@xxxxxxxxx Faye Peters Sprint Outreach Specialist Faye4Sprint@xxxxxxxxx (Contributed by: Faye Peters, Sprint) ================================================ Aug 17-19: CDHH Family Learning Vacation, Lions Camp Save the Date - Family Learning Vacation 2007 Be sure to save the Date for Family Learning Vacation 2007, which will take place at the Wisconsin Lions Camp in Rosholt, WI, August 17-19. Family Learning Vacation (FLV) is an annual event sponsored by the Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, where families with d/Deaf and hard of hearing children from all over the state get together for a weekend of fun, friendship and interesting workshops. FLV has become a tradition for many families in Wisconsin, so please mark your calendars and take advantage of this special experience this August 17-19. We’re also looking for volunteers with a strong interest in working with d/Deaf and hard of hearing children to help with activities throughout the weekend. For more information about FLV or to learn about volunteer opportunities available, please call the Center at 414-604-2200 (Voice) / 888-742-7651 (TTY) or email ckometer@xxxxxxxx Kerry Malak Communications Director Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing www.cdhh.org (Contributed by: Kerry Malak, CDHH) ================================================== Aug 18: 2nd Annual Four Clubs Deaf Picnic Hosted by Four Deaf Clubs: Southern Lakes Association of the Deaf Racine-Kenosha Club of the Deaf Madison Association of the Deaf Greater Milwaukee Association of the Deaf Second Annual Four Clubs Deaf Picnic! 10am - 8pm Darien West Side Park Darien, WI For more details, go to http://www.wi-deaf.org/images/slad/DeafPicnicAug172007.pdf or go to http://www.wi-deaf.org, then click "WAD Chapter Events" under WAD Chapters, then click "Four Clubs Deaf Picnic 2007" link. You can also see event info in the Community Calendar on WAD website - just go to August 18, 2007 in the calendar. SEE VLOG AT: http://fourdeafclubs.blogspot.com/ ****** SPECIAL REQUEST: Due to popular demand by the attendees at the Deaf Picnic last year, they would like to have desserts at the picnic again this year on August 18th. Can some members please bring some desserts... here are the following requests: ~ Desserts must be cut into individual pieces. ~ Each piece must be individually wrapped in a CLEAR SARAN WRAP ~ This is important: If any nuts (including peanut butter) is one of the ingredients in the dessert, PLEASE write a small note on the individual pieces indicating it has nuts/peanut butter. Reason: some people are allergic to nuts. ~ Please make desserts that do not require the use of forks or spoons. (We will not provide any forks or spoons.) ~ NO PIES, please! I appreciate your help! Thank you, Susie Kelly Deaf PIcnic Secretary (Contributed by: SLAD Officers, SLAD) ================================================== Aug 30-Sep 3: 5th Midwest Timberfest of the Deaf Come to Midwest Timberfest of the Deaf (MTD) at Camp Lakodia for lumberjack contests, good fun and great socializing! MTD will provide daytime events and Camp Lakodia will host nightly events. Vendors will have booths to sell or advertise products and services. Bring your family to this unique lakeside setting in Eastern South Dakota! ø Ax Throwing ø Log Splitting ø Single Bucking ø Much More! Additional information plus Combo and Combo + Lodging prices can be found here: http://www.wi-deaf.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=104&Itemid=59 If you have questions, email Kevin Ryan, MTD Chairperson, at wrestkpt42@xxxxxxx (Contributed by: Dave Surprenant, WADNet Reader) ================================================== Oct 1: CONTEST - Broadband Changed My Life! Cash Prizes: "Broadband Changed My Life" Contest! Cash Prizes Available in "Broadband Changed My Life" Contest! The Alliance for Public Technology (APT), a nonprofit association urging greater deployment of broadband, or high speed Internet access, is running a nationwide contest to highlight the breadth and scope of the impact using broadband can have at the personal level. APT wants you to share your story on line. They are offering a grand prize of $1,000, a second place prize of $500 and a third place prize of $250 to the best submissions. Awardees stories will also be highlighted on the APT web site and featured in APT-sponsored publications. People with disabilities are encouraged to go to the web site at http://ga3.org/campaign/contest and enter the contest before the deadline of October 1, 2007. Perhaps as a Video Relay Service user your story of reaching an employer and securing a great job could be known through this contest? Perhaps you are a person with a disability running a business online that uses high speed Internet and this made you richer or off public supports? Perhaps you can now download and listen more quickly to audioclips of books and materials where previously you had to wait months for the brailled version to arrive via regular mail? Maybe your use of high speed broadband allows you to do some things that formerly with dial-up Internet access you couldn't do and it changed your life. If so, please share your story and win some cash as well! AAPD urges you to get your story in soon! Please pass this contest notice along to others also, thanks! More about APT is available at http://www.apt.org and click on the "Broadband" contest button. Provided by Jenifer Simpson, AAPD staffer and APT Board member, email aapdjenifer@xxxxxxxx SOURCE: AAPD (Contributed by: Denise Pulfer, Access to Independence) ================================================ Oct 27: WTCI Community Gathering WTCI Fall 2007 Community Gathering Saturday, October 27, 2007 9am - 4pm (lunch is on your own, or pack a bag lunch with your own beverages) Menasha Public Library Company "E" Room 440 First Street, Menasha Cost: FREE What We'll Do: MORNING: Review of bylaws, inclusion of any last revisions, then a vote to accept the bylaws as revised to be presented to members for ratification at the Spring Banquet. AFTERNOON: Mini-training on strategic planning, with SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis of WTCI with small group breakouts for discussions RSVP REQUESTED BY OCTOBER 13, 2007 (for head count) RSVP to Jim Powell, President E-mail: president@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx VP: niceodie.homedns.org TTY: 608-825-9791 Voice: 800-678-7960 Or, to get a mail-in registration form, you can go to WTCI site at http://www.wi-deafdir.info (Contributed by: Jim Powell, WTCI President) ================================================== Dec 31: New Years Eve 2007 West Suburban Association of the Deaf is proud to host... New Years Eve 2007 Monday - December 31, 2007 Entertainment: Pinky Tells the Real Story Videophone & Video Relay Service II Flame Juggler *Prizes *Dance Contest! *Best Outfits Contest *Photography *Surprise ! :-) Radisson Hotel at Ballroom Entrance 1725 E. Algonquin Road Schaumburg, IL 60173 See website for more information: www.wsadeaf.org or attached flyer/announcement (contributed by: Tim Mahoney, WADNet Reader) ================================================== 2008: Northcentral Technical College Reunion We plan to have Northcentral Technical College Reunion in 2008. I am looking for addresses for those who atteneded at Northcentral Technical College. We need help to find those addresses. If any one know the addresses, please email me or send to one of our committee members: Barb Anhalt, Scott Retzleff and Cathy Morrissey. Here is the list of names that we try to find the addresses: Brenda Bielenski, Larry Golly, Richard Fleming, Jeff Lielenski, Daryl Christianson, Joel Shiver, Joseph Serio, Jane Dyne, Robert Call, Jame Kuzinski, Bryan Samb, Phyills Abendroth, Barb Baungandt, Sherry Christansen, Rene Petert, Mike Fehl, David Fleming, Jenny Garcia, Susie Gau, Layvonne Koskey, Sue McGabe, Terre MIscho, Laurie Passow, Nancy Shedick, Pat Smrstick, Melissa Steuber, Bryl Vardre, June Vodvarka, Sue Uollenweider, Kay Closs, Pam Joachim, Tom Smith, Keith Mischo, John Staszak, Larry Hintz, Mike Fahich, Jim Prink, Susan Fleming, Diane Vander Zander. We would like to send the survey for the information before we plan to have the reunion in 2008. I hope to hear from them by End of October 2007, so we can work on the plan for 2008. My email address is nuttycathy1@xxxxxxx, Banhalt143@xxxxxxx, and retzleff@xxxxxxxxxxxx Thank you Catherine Morrissey, committee of NTC- Wausau (Contributed by: Catherine Morrissey, NTC-Wausau Reunion Committee) ================================================== ================================================== Leslie Riggs WADNet Post Editor & Listserv Administrator Wisconsin Association of the Deaf -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- TO SUBSCRIBE to the WADNet Post, please email to wadnetpost-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the Subject field. IF YOU ARE CHANGING EMAIL ADDRESSES, PLEASE FOLLOW THESE TWO STEPS:1) UNSUBSCRIBE from the WADNet Post by sending an email from your OLD email address to wadnetpost-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field.
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