BOLD VENTURES
May 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
LEFTOVER from APRIL
Sunday April 28, 2-5pm Talent show/dessert auction party at Human Services, the Liberty Room at One Smithfield Street. Details in last month’s newsletter.
Reminder: bring your homemade desserts if you are planning to auction them off! To reserve by 10 PM on Wednesday, April 24, phone Terri Winaught: 412-595-6187, cell.
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MAY CALENDAR
Tuesday May 7 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 May 5.
Saturday May 4 from 9am to 12:30pm: Final swim party! Come party with us! (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 May 1.
Camp Kon-o-kwee weekend from Friday May 10 – Sunday May 12. Reservations are closed. Reminder: Bring your medications and a change of clothes! Copayments are not refundable. In case of a true emergency, the board will make a decision. The optional tips for the driver will be collected during each trip, to be presented when safely brought to our destination. IMPORTANT! Note that the buildings and all the grounds are now smoke free! People will depart on Friday May 10 from the Human Services Building, 1 Smithfield St. downtown. Arrive by 5:30pm. Returning to the same location on Sunday May 12, set up your Access for 1pm.
Thursday May 2 Friendship Walk and Talk at Ross Park Mall from 10am till noon. To reserve, call Pat DePasquale by Sunday April 28: 724-939-3969.
Thursday May 16 Friendship Walk and Talk at Ross Park Mall from 10am till noon. To reserve, call Toni Kelly: 412-965-4443 by Sunday May 12.
Wednesdays May 8 & 22: 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 May 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30: 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.
FUNDRAISING FACTS:
Veronique’s students from her French class donated $115 to Bold!
LOOKING AHEAD
Saturday, June 1st from noon to 5 PM, Ray Jablonowski will host a picnic at Highland Park’s Sycamore Grove with tandem biking, games, hiking, and food, at no cost! Peggy Walsh, 412-683-6070, will be the reservationist with the deadline being May 26.
Sunday June 23, tentative date, Tandem biking starting at Tandem Connection 5 Georgetown Rd Canonsburg, PA 15317, Saturday July 6, from noon until 5:00,no cost Gottschalk Swim Party in Moon Township at 15 Cherrington Lane, Coraopolis, PA15108, the home of Evan and Alexa Gottschalk. Hamburgers and hot dogs and buns etc. provided. Terri Winaught at 412-263-2022 will be the reservationist. Tell her what side dish, dessert or snack you can bring to share. NO food allowed at the pool.
Sunday August 25, Waterskiing will be held with the Golden Triangle Water Ski Club, Nancy Leverett as the reservationist (see newsletter closer to that date for more information).
CULTURAL CONNECTIONS
Close of the season: Two plays at City Theatre, 1300 Bingham St., South Side 15203.
Sunday May 12: “The Burdens”: A dark comedy about equal-pay in the digital age.
Sunday June 2: “We are among us”: A former military is just beginning her happy married life, when confronted by a ten-years-ago past about a now differently-viewed Vietnam War.
BOLD BITS
Events at the Carnegie Library for the Blind (CLP-LBPH), 4724 Baum Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213:
Wednesday, May 15 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 program on Saturday May 18 from 4 to 7 PM. To sign up, phone Sherri Crum no later than 6 PM on Saturday May 11: 412-682-1800.
Carol Platt continues to ask for your thoughts and prayers as she struggles to recover from difficult health challenges.
Norma Caquatto thanks everyone for the Well Wishes she has been receiving through phone calls and cards; Norma requests that you keep sending Good Wishes.
We also wish Peggy Walsh all the best as she embarks on what she describes as a “ministry that kind of fell into her lap:” On Wednesday, April 3rd, Peggy began volunteering her services at Magee Hospital by playing piano in their spacious lobby. Having heard Peggy’s piano playing skills, there is no doubt that she will bring relaxation and listening pleasure to all who hear her.
Happy Birthday to Bruce Leverett, Joyce Mulkern, Jerry Penfield, Erin Wagner and anyone else with a May birthday
Thanks to all who contributed to the making of this newsletter.
PAST EVENTS by Peggy Walsh
Sunday March 17, 20-plus Boldsters came to a house party at Ray Jablonowski’s. Many thanks to Ray and his family and other helpful volunteers, for a splendid time: there were darts, the massage chair, word games and the ever popular “screw your neighbor” card game. Thanks to brother Bob’s lottery, two people named Cindy won: Johnson 2nd prize and Perseo 1st prize. Thanks again to Ray for pizza and hoagies, plus cupcakes and cookies, and even take-home containers for leftovers! What a kind, generous, high-spirited St Patrick’s Day gift event!
PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES
By Cindy Flerman: I enjoy reading the BOLD newsletter because it lets me keep in touch with my friends and the happenings in Pittsburgh. As for me, I was matched in a five day home training with a wonderful black Labrador retriever dog guide from The Seeing Eye in late August, 2018. Nixon was a part of a large litter of puppies whose names started with the letter N. He is the tallest dog I have ever had, at 25 inches, and 68 pounds. He is calm and affectionate, and will work at any pace I need. I hope one day we will be able to visit a BOLD event; in the meantime I will keep enjoying reading the newsletter.
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