BOLD VENTURES
January 2019
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
Editorial team: Veronique Schreurs, Nancy Leverett, Terri Winaught, Peggy Walsh
Email: boldwpa@gmail.com
Website: www.wpabold.blogspot.com
Update Line: 1-773-572-3078 (updates recorded each Friday.)
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Hope it will be a BOLD year for you, and that you will pay your $12 dues for 2019! It is really a bargain!
If you haven’t already done so, please send a check or money order for $12 made out to W PA BOLD to our treasurer: Veronique Schreurs, 2269 Tilbury Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15217.
Attention BOLD Members and Guides: If you get this Newsletter you are welcome at the events that are listed here! Come swim with us, walk with us, have fun with us!
JANUARY CALENDAR
Saturday January 5 from 9am to 12:30pm: Swimming (from 9:15-11:15am, then pizza) at our current location: The Children’s Institute of Pittsburgh, 1405 Shady Ave. Pittsburgh PA 15217 in Squirrel Hill, optional donation: $5.00. It is a full sized warm indoor pool. Reserve with Penny Fleckenstein, 412-415-3871 by Wednesday January 2.
Tuesday January 8 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM: Bold Board meeting at the Human Services building, 1 Smithfield St., downtown. All are welcomed to attend. Please call Nancy Leverett 412-415-3871 by 9pm Sunday January 6. Nancy will chair the meeting.
Downhill ski dates for 2019, January 6, and 27, and February 10 and 24, and March 10 and 24.
Cross Country Skiing: Call to have your name put on an email list of people who will be contacted when conditions are good for cross country skiing, because it has to be a last minute decision and we need to know who to call.
Dom Ceresa is the person to call for downhill and cross country skiing. If you’d like to be a sighted guide or a visually impaired skier, call 724-527-1857 and leave your phone and e-mail
Saturday January 26 from 2 to 4pm: Celebration of Life to honor BOLD members who passed away throughout 2018: Gerri Wilson, Bill Brandt and Rege Sullivan. The gathering will be held at 1 Smithfield St. downtown. After a gentle discussion of these friends and a moment of respectful silence, light refreshments will be served. Reserve by 9pm on Wednesday January 23 with Terri Winaught, cell 412-595-6187.
Thursday January 3 Friendship Walk and Talk at Ross Park Mall from 10am till noon. To reserve, call Pat DePasquale by Sunday December 30: 412-492-1692.
Thursday January 17 Friendship Walk and Talk at Ross Park Mall from 10am till noon. To reserve, call Toni Kelly by Sunday January 13: 412-965-4443.
Wednesdays January 2, 16 & 30: Mall Walking will be held at the Monroeville Mall from 9 to 11 AM. To sign up with Joyce Driben the Thursday before: 412-521-4385.
Thursdays January 3, 10, 17, 24 & 31: Yoga at Squirrel Hill’s Schoolhouse Studio: 2215 Murray Ave. from 2:30 to 4 PM. Cost, $10 per person ($15 optional if the group is small). Reserve the Tuesday before with Veronique 412-225-4038.
LOOKING AHEAD
Saturday, February 16; from 1 to 4 in the afternoon; Party, no cost, at the spacious apartment of Janet Jain, 144 N Dithridge, Pittsburgh 15213, in Oakland. Food and activity to be announced in the next newsletter but based on last year’s party you can expect lots of great food and a good time to liven up this mid-winter day. (We did blind Bingo last year). The reservationist is Marty Mathews and contact her by Tuesday February 12 at home 412-440-4909 so we have enough food.
FUNDRAISING FACTS by Terri Winaught
At BOLD’S Holiday Party, Sue Jeffreys and Xiao Ping did such a bang-up job selling 50/50 raffle tickets that we sold $162 worth with Cyndee Jablonowski being the winner. Although Cindy won $81, she was comfortable taking only $31 of that.
Thanks to a generous, anonymous donor, Peggy Walsh won $20.
CULTURAL CONNECTIONS
Pittsburgh Opera: Saturday January 5, 12 noon – 1pm: Brown bag lunch concert will be held at headquarters: 2425 Liberty Ave., 25th street entrance, Pittsburgh 15222. Reserve in advance with Marilyn Egan, 412-281-0912, X242:
Sunday January 13, 2pm also at headquarters: Opera Up Close and 4-6pm: Sensory workshop for Blind/Vision Impaired of “Afterwards”, a sequel to Mozart’s opera “Idomeneo”.
Tuesday January 29, 7pm at CAPA, 111 9th St, at Fort Duquesne Blvd: the opera “Afterwards”. To order an $11 ticket for this Audio-Described performance call Regina Connelly 412-281-0912, x213.
BOLD BITS
Events at the Carnegie Library for the Blind (CLP-LBPH), 4724 Baum Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213:
Wednesday, January 16 from 1 PM to 2:30 is our next Accessible Tech Training at CLP-LBPH. Join us for a hands-on tech training focusing on tablet and smart phone accessibility options.
The Pittsburgh Lutheran Center for the Blind will host their next meal on Saturday January 26 from 5 to 7 PM. To sign up, phone Sherri Crum no later than 6 PM on Saturday the 19th: 412-682-1800.
Welcome to new BOLD members Kimberly Smythe and John Hucik and returning member Kimberley Morrissey!
Compassion and condolences to Rege Sullivan’s family and friends, Rege having died on November 13th, 2018
Get Well wishes to Carol Platt, J.R. Wilson, and anyone else experiencing an illness, injury or surgery.
On November 30th, Jim and Terri Winaught moved to the following new address: 400 Cochran Road: apt. 409, Pittsburgh, 15228 (Mount Lebanon).
Happy Birthday to Joyce Driben, Penny Fleckenstein, Nancy Leverett, Kimberley Morrissey, Cindy Perseo, Dave Popoleo, Sam Wagner, and anyone else with a January birthday. Belated Wishes and apologies to Marilyn Hall and John Perseo, whose birthdays are in November & December. (Please don’t hesitate to let me know if I either forget to mention your birthday, or list it when you don’t want it to be acknowledged.)
PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE by Terri Winaught on the Holiday party:
As an attendee of the 2018 Holiday Party on Saturday, December 1st, I can’t give it enough glowing grades. The food was delicious; the helpers were as fantastic as they always are, and Ceinwen King-Smith did an exemplary job providing beautiful background organ music to which some people sang after the meal. Marty Mathews also did her always marvelous job with flute accompaniment, and Cindy Perseo joined in with the melodica.
To say more about helpers, many thanks to Ray Jablonowski; his brother, Bob and sister Cyndee; Sue Jeffreys; Veronique Schreurs; new member Kimberly Smythe, and Xiao Ping, a friend of Veronique’s. Of course, heaping helpings of thanks go to the Leveretts who so generously paid for this sumptuous feast, and Nancy acknowledged Peggy Walsh for the extraordinary job she did as event reservationist.
Again, I can’t say enough about what a perfect BOLD’S 2018 Holiday Party was!
PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE by Cindy Perseo on the Grove City Shopping trip November 10:
On Saturday morning, 17 Boldsters and 3 or 4 dog guides took off for Grove City Outlets, we left at 9 and arrived sometime after 10am. Thirty students from Slippery Rock College were waiting for us. I met a girl named Dana who goes to our church on Robinson St. We had a marvelous time, even though it was cold and breezy. It snowed a little, but not much – just enough to make a couple of places slick.
Some of us went to a couple of candy shops, and also to Bath and Body Works (though I thought it was Bed Bath and Beyond). The young people were fantastic!!! I rate them 144%! They really cared about it, and they took us wherever we wanted to go. We ate lunch in the Food Court, and I think everyone will agree, we had one heck of a good time!!! I’d recommend everyone who likes to shop, and eat, to try it.
Thanks to Peggy Walsh for taking reservations, to John our wonderful bus driver, to Joyce Driben for arranging our bus ride, to Nancy Leverett for getting us our coupon bags, and her husband Bruce for collecting our payments – and just to everyone!!! I’ll be sure to go back next time! It was wonderful!
Thanks to all who contributed to the making of this newsletter.
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