BOLD VENTURES
May 2017
Blind Outdoor Leisure Development
BOLD welcomes persons 18 and older with all degrees of vision: blind, low vision, partially sighted and fully sighted.
PO Box 8114
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
Veronique Schreurs, Editor
Email: boldwpa@gmail.com
website: www.wpabold.blogspot.com
Update Line: 1-773-597-4222 (updates recorded each Friday.)
MERRY MONTH OF MAY!
MAY CALENDAR
Tuesday May 2 will be the next Board meeting from 6:30 to 8:30 PM at One Smithfield Street. All are welcome! Please contribute your ideas for future activities. To let Tammi know you will be there, call 412-488-6298 by 10 PM on Sunday the 31st.
Wednesdays May 3, 17 &31: Mall Walking at the Monroeville Mall from 9 AM to 11 AM. To sign up with Joyce Driben by 9 PM the Thursdays before, call 412-521-4385.
Thursdays May 4 & 18: Mall Walking at the Ross Park Mall from 10 to 12 noon on both days.
To reserve for the 4th, call Pat DePasquale, 412-492-1692, by 9 PM on Sunday, April 31. To sign up for Thursday the 18th, phone Toni Kelly, 412-965-4443, by 9 PM on Sunday, May 14.
Thursdays May 4, 11, 18 & 25: Yoga from 2:30 to 4 PM at Squirrel Hill's Schoolhouse Yoga Studio: 2215 Murray Ave. Copay is $10. The sign-up deadline with Veronique Schreurs, 412-225-4038, is the Tuesdays before by 9 PM. Sign up with Peggy Walsh Tuesday May 16 & 23, 412-683-6070.
Camp Kon-o-Kwee Weekend will be from Friday, May 5 till Sunday May 7. Joyce Driben (412-521-4385) is the reservationist. Note the pick-up point is the School for Blind Children, 201 N Bellefield Ave. Please arrange to be there by 5:30pm. Tell the Access vehicle driver to take the first entrance, closest to Bayard, and immediately turn left to circle around the building, and stop at the back entrance. (No bathroom access.) Note that the return location is different: Human Services building parking lot at One Smithfield St. Please ask Access to come at 2:15pm. Joyce Driben will also tell this information to people who signed up. Reminder: campers need to be responsible for their medications and the use of their own medical equipment
Saturday, May 13, from 10:00 until 2:00, tandem biking will occur, at no cost. Montour trail-Cecil Park 1684 Millers Run Road, Cecil PA 15321. Make your reservation by May 9 at 9:00 p.m with Nancy Leverett at 412-561-3972. We will bike for 2 hours and then have lunch compliments of BOLD at the Bike Shop Grill in their indoor or outdoor seating. Lunch includes a platter of your choice with coleslaw, chips, and a sandwich of your choice: (pulled pork, chicken, hot dog, or veggie burger). They also have other things on the menu that you can buy. This location is just outside of Allegheny County so if anyone has to come by Access we will establish a drop-off and pick-up location.
Saturday May 20: Swimming from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM at the Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children: 201 North Bellefield Ave., Pittsburgh, 15213. Swimming is free, water is warm and people may bring snacks which are to be eaten ONLY outside of the pool area. We order pizza afterwards, no charge. Read Penny’s personal perspective. Penny Fleckenstein 412-415-3871 will be the reservationist, the deadline being 10 PM the Wednesday before.
LOOKING AHEAD
Next Bold board meeting will be Tue June 6.
Saturday June 3, from 12:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m. A picnic hosted by Ray and the Catholic Alumni Association with tandem biking games and food at no cost, at Sycamore Shelter in Highland Park. Details in next Bold ventures.
Sunday June 25 from 2-5pm we are planning a Talent show at Human Services! Only $5 donation requested at the door. Details in the June newsletter, but you can start practicing now!
CULTURAL CONNECTIONS
Free symphony tickets are available from the Heartstrings program. If interested, call Joyce Driben, 412-521-5385.
City Theatre, 1300 Bingham St., ZIP 15203 presents “Wild with Happy” on Sunday April 30, 1 PM being the visually-impaired workshop and 2 PM being the curtain time.
To order tickets, phone the Box Office at 412-431-4900. Tickets cost $22 with persons who are blind having the option of a free companion ticket.
On Tuesday May 2 “The Summer King”, a new opera, will play at the Benedum, 7th and Penn downtown. To order your $10 ticket, and inquire about the length of the performance, contact Regina Connelley: 412-281-0912, x213.
Prime Stage is excited to announce that on Friday, May 12 our 8pm performance of The Perks of Being a Wallflower will feature audio description! It is written by Stephen Chbosky. It is performed at the New Hazlett Theater Center for Performing Arts, next to the Children’s museum on the North Side.
PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE
A poem by Penny Fleckenstein on our BOLD swimming activity:
Saturday swimming
warm air greets us
warm water caresses our toes,
walking in deeper, our muscles relax
We joyfully smile ready to play,
conversing, relaxing, a bounce on the trampoline today?
throw a ball, hold a noodle, or lie on a mat
So many ways to keep afloat or swim if you like that
time passes quickly
the pizza has come!
What a splendid way
to spend part of our Saturday.
BOLD BITS
The final two meals at the Lutheran Center for the blind will be on Saturday April 29 and May 20 from 5 to 7 PM. To sign up for any meal during the weeks before April 22 and May 13, phone Center Director Sherri Crum: 412-682-1800. The attendance limit is 25 blind or visually-impaired persons.
Best wishes for recovery to Carol Platt who had surgery, and would like to talk to people. She is in Magee womans hospital 300 Halket St. Pittsburgh Pa. 15213 room 3185 bed 2. Telephone number is 1-412-641-5232.
Happy Birthday to Joyce Mulkern, Jerry Penfield, Benjamin Povilaitis, Rege Sullivan, Carolyn Thayer, Erin Wagoner, and anyone else with a May birthday.
Thank you to everyone whose hard work makes BOLD Ventures possible.
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