BOLD VENTURES
February 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
GENTLE REMINDER!
Thank you to the many people who paid their dues!
If you haven’t paid your dues yet, 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.
What’s left on the JANUARY CALENDAR
Saturday January 26 from 2 to 4pm: Celebration of Life to honor BOLD members who passed away throughout 2018: Gerri Wilson, Bill Brand and Rege Sullivan. The gathering will be held at 1 Smithfield St. downtown, Rachel Carson room. After a gentle discussion of these friends and a moment of respectful silence, light refreshments (vegies, grapes and cookies) will be served. Reserve by 9pm on Wednesday January 23 with Terri Winaught, cell 412-595-6187. Call Joyce Driben 412-521-4385 if you are unable to reach Terri.
FEBRUARY CALENDAR
Saturday February 2 & 16 from 9am to 12:30pm: Swimming twice a month! (9:15-11:15am, then pizza) at: 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 30 & Feb 13.
Tuesday February 5 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM: Bold Board meeting at the Human Services building, 1 Smithfield St., downtown. All are welcome to attend. Please call Tammi 412-951-6528 by 9pm Sunday February 3.
Saturday, February 16; from 1 to 4 in the afternoon; Lunar New Year’s Party, at the spacious apartment of Janet Jain, 144 N Dithridge, Pittsburgh 15213, in Oakland, ($5 donation).
Asian finger foods will be served, and tea or water. We will play games of chance and maybe blind bingo. The reservationist is Marty Mathews, contact her by Sunday February 3 at home: 412-440-4909 so we have enough food.
Children’s museum February 19, 1-4pm, we will learn, play and have fun! Joyce is the reservationist, 412-521-4385, call by Wednesday February 13 by 9pm. Address: 10 Children’s way, 15212. Subsideized cost is $5/person, sighted guides are free. The café is open at 12 if people want to eat before our visit, but be advised that it is very crowded at that hour.
Downhill ski dates for 2019, January 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. 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
Thursday February 7 Friendship Walk and Talk at Ross Park Mall from 10am till noon. To reserve, call Pat DePasquale by Sunday February 3: 412-492-1692.
Thursday February 21 Friendship Walk and Talk at Ross Park Mall from 10am till noon. To reserve, call Toni Kelly: 412-965-4443 by Sunday February 17.
Wednesdays February 13 & 27: 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 February 7, 14, 21 & 28: 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
March 17, 12-5pm: house party at the home of Ray Jablonowski. Details in the next newsletter.
Camp Kon-o-kwee weekend from Friday May 10 – Sunday May 12. Save the date! Details in the next newsletters.
CULTURAL CONNECTIONS
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. Call this number for the next opera as well.
City Theatre, 1300 Bingham St. South Side 15203: Sunday February 17, 1pm Blind/Vision impaired workshop, 2pm: Audio-described performance of “Where did we sit on the bus?” For $22 ticket with or without sighted companion call 412-431-4900, Option 3.
Pittsburgh Opera: two events at headquarters: 2425 Liberty Ave., 25th street entrance, Pittsburgh 15222. Reserve in advance with Marilyn Egan, 412-281-0912, Ext. 242:
First event: Sunday February 10, 2pm, Opera up close, followed at 4pm until 6pm by the Blind/Vision impaired Sensory workshop: “Glory Denied”
Second event: Tuesday February 26, 7pm: Audio-described performance of “Glory Denied”.
BOLD BITS
Events at the Carnegie Library for the Blind (CLP-LBPH), 4724 Baum Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213:
Wednesday, February 20 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 February 23 from 5 to 7 PM. To sign up, phone Sherri Crum no later than 6 PM on Saturday February 16: 412-682-1800.
Many thanks to the Mall walkers who together donated $160 to BOLD in memoriam of Rege Sullivan.
Welcome to new BOLD member Cyndee Jablonowski, Ray’s sister, and already a friend of Bold! Welcome to Al and Hope Pietrolongo!
Get Well Wishes to Donna Mckenree who recently had an asthma flare-up; Carol Platt, who was recently in Shadyside’s ICU and then in Rehab, and Jim Winaught, who also spent time in ICU and is now back home. Also, Best Wishes that J.R. Wilson will continue to feel “just fine” after having three stents put in his heart.
Congratulations to Terri Winaught who was humbled to have sung the National anthem twice in one week: First for Duquesne University Women’s Basketball, and then for men’s basketball.
Happy Birthday to Sherri Crum, Missy Demchak, Mitch Demchak, Maurice Johnston, Jamie Robinson, Aimee Yunt and anyone else with a February birthday.
Thanks to all who contributed to the making of this newsletter.
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