BOLD VENTURES
June 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
NEW DIRECTION
Going forward, we will no longer list the events of other organizations in great detail.
We will simply mention the organization and a phone number where people can get information.
This will affect: Friendship group Mall walking, Lutheran Center for the Blind and Carnegie Library for the Blind.
Monroeville Mall walking is our own Bold event, so that will continue to be listed.
Cultural events, subsidized or not, will continue to be listed when the next season starts up.
JUNE CALENDAR
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.
Tuesday June 4 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 June 2.
Wednesdays June 5 & 19: 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.
For Ross Park Mall walk information: please call Andrea Schwartz at 724-444-0064.
Thursdays June 6, 13, 20 & 27: 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.
Sunday June 23, Tandem biking starting at Tandem Connection 5 Georgetown Rd Canonsburg, PA 15317, starting at 9am, ending at 1pm. $5 suggested donation (except if you brown bag your own lunch). Nancy is the reservationist, call her at 412-561-3972 by June 16. People will be matched with a captain. If your bike is not comfortable, please tell someone so it can be fixed!
FUNDRAISING FACTS
Thanks to all who participated in the Talent Show/dessert auction by helping out, performing, donating or buying! Special thanks to Sue Gold and the three girl scouts who were very helpful! We raised $350, and had fun doing it!
LOOKING AHEAD
Saturday July 6, from noon until 5:00pm, no cost Gottschalk Swim Party in Moon Township at 15 Cherrington Lane, Coraopolis, PA 15108, 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: Last play at City Theatre, 1300 Bingham St., South Side 15203.
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
For interesting events at the Carnegie Library for the Blind (CLP-LBPH), 4724 Baum Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213: call 412-687-2440 for information.
For programs at the Pittsburgh Lutheran Center for the Blind: call Sherri Crum at 412-682-1800.
Condolences to the family and friends of Carol Platt who died early morning May 14 at Shadyside Hospital. As a former board member and a good friend of many Carol will be greatly missed.
Congratulations to Ashley Winaught, who gave birth to a baby boy: Aiden Michael on April 27. Both mother and baby are doing well.
Happy Birthday to Natasha Brown, Linda Davis, Veronique Schreurs, Peggy Walsh and anyone else with a June birthday.
Thanks to all who contributed to the making of this newsletter.
PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE by Peggy on the camp Kon-o-Kwee weekend.
Our Bold Kon-o-kwee weekend was marvelous! Saturday's weather was cool and sunny, so I walked a lot on the spacious grounds. Sunday's early morning mini Thundered downpour mellowed into a cloudy drizzle. The whole weekend, food was tasty and plentiful. Several fellow campers were as cheerfully all around helpful as the few delightful camp staff. Activities included basketball and canoeing, a nature walk and evening bingo after a rousing fundraiser folk concert.
There were campfire s'mores, brought to us in the lodge. The group bus trip there was prompt & smooth. (The trip back was another story). Thanks to the team of Bold-sters who made this rich experience happen.
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