BOLD VENTURES
November 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
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL!
Leftover from the October newsletter
Sunday October 27, 2-3:30pm: Opera up close of “Florencia en el Amazonas”. Note different location: Carnegie Library of Oakland, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Oakland, second floor Music Room. For tickets in advance, or assistance to get there from the carriage drive entrance (usual ACCESS drop-off wheelchair entrance), call Marilyn Egan, 412-281-0912, X242. It is a long walk, many steps before reaching the elevator to go to the second floor.
REMINDER OF OUR NEW BOLD POLICY
New policy starting in October for all activities with BOLD that have no cost to participate. (Note: not all activities are free. This policy applies only to the free ones). There will be a $15.00 penalty for not showing up or canceling for an event without a good reason. We have received donations that are making it possible not to charge for some activities. There are still costs to BOLD. By not attending an activity that you have signed up for you may be inconveniencing many people or taking the place of someone who did want to attend!
ADMINISTRATIVE NOTICES
We would like you to volunteer for one of these positions: President, First Vice-President, Corresponding secretary (editor of the newsletter). Please call Tammi 412-488-6298 to nominate yourself. Aren’t our activities fun? We are having a lot of fun also putting together interesting outings, and we would like more participation. Come to a BOLD board meeting (see below) and find out. All are welcome.
NOVEMBER CALENDAR
Saturday November 2: Holiday shopping at Grove City at no cost! Note the change in policy: no cost for the bus but $15.00 penalty for not showing up, unless you cancel by Wednesday October 30! Friends and family are welcome to sign up. Peggy has arranged for students from Slippery Rock to meet us there. They will guide us and help people shop. Please call reservationist Peggy 412-683-6070 no later than October 15. Enough people signed up, so we will charter a bus, going from Human Services. Please be in the parking lot by 8:30am so we can leave at 9am. Set up your return Access for 6:30 or 6:40pm.
Tuesday November 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 412-488-6298 by 9pm Sunday November 3.
Saturday, November 16 and December 7, from 9:30 to 11:30, swimming, a $5 donation is optional, at (note new location) the Western Pennsylvania School for Blind children: 201 North Bellefield Ave., Oakland. Reservationist, Penny Fleckenstein: 412-415-3871 by 10 PM the Wednesday before. Swimmers may bring snacks, and pizza is provided for lunch.
Wednesdays November 6 & 20: Mall Walking will be held at the Monroeville Mall from 9 to 11 AM. To sign up with Peggy Walsh the Thursday before: 412-683-6070.
For Ross Park Mall walk information (first and third Thursday): please call Andrea Schwartz at 724-444-0064.
Thursdays November 7, 14 & 21: Yoga at Squirrel Hill 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 EVENT
If you want to attend the Sunday October 20 live auction at One Smithfield Street, remember to reserve with Terri Winaught, (412) 263-2022, by 10 PM Sunday, October 13. If you can’t attend the auction but have items you would like to donate, please feel free to do so and let Terri know what you have.
In addition to the auction, which will be held in the Liberty Room from 2 to 5 PM, we will also serve drinks in the Homestead Grays Room from noon till 1:30. Between 1:30 and 2, people who want to touch the auction items and have them described will have that option, also in the Liberty Room.
Once the auction is over, we will then have both pizza and drinks in the Liberty Room.
LOOKING AHEAD
December 1, City Theatre, 1300 Bingham St., South Side 15243: One Night in Miami (historical figures meeting in 1964). The Sunday matinee starts with a 1pm Blind/vision impaired introductory workshop, followed by a 2pm audio-described performance. To learn more about the play call the box office at 412-431-4400 (or 412-431-2489).
Sunday December 15, 2-5pm: annual BOLD Holiday party, and special recognition for Dom Ceresa who was our skiing coordinator for many years, no cost but new policy applies. Location: Human Services Building, 1 Smithfield St. downtown. All BOLD members and ski guides Come and celebrate the season and show our appreciation to Dom for his outstanding service to BOLD! The same YUMMY caterer as last year and similar menu: Beef au jus, boneless stuffed chicken breast with gravy, and Vegetable lasagna, Sides: roasted potatoes, green bean almondine, and spinach salad, and includes rolls and butter, coffee, tea and soft drinks or water. Reserve with Terri Winaught by December 5 at 412-263-2022, Optional: bring snacks or a dessert.
Ski Clinic in December and tentative ski dates for ski season 2020: Jan 5, Jan 26, Feb 9, Feb 23, Mar 8, and Mar 22
CULTURAL CONNECTIONS
Friday November 1- 22: Somatosensory sculpture exhibit at Carnegie Library for the Blind, 4724 Baum Blvd., Pittsburgh 15213. On November 1 there will be a welcome reception from 5-7pm. For more information call 412-687-2440.
Tuesday November 12, beginning at 7pm at Benedum Center, downtown 15222: Audio-described performance of “Florencia en el Amazonas” Spanish opera about an opera singer. To learn length of opera and or order $11 ticket(s) call Regina Connelly, 412-281-0912, X213.
Sunday November 17 from 1:00 until 4:00, "Screw your Neighbor" games party for a maximum of 12 people with only snacks and no dinner, no cost, at the home of Ray Jablonowski, 4551 Parade St., Pittsburgh PA 15207. Ray is holding this party for all the Bold members who seem to love playing that game!
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.
Best wishes to Jim Musto who recently moved to 50 Paladium Rd, Bridgeville PA 15107.
Get Well Wishes to J.R. Wilson who recently spent time in the hospital due to heart issues.
CONGRATULATIONS! To Jim and Larry Wiseman whose story appeared in a September issue of the Post Gazette. Specifically, the reporter who interviewed the Wisemans and followed them as they traveled along busy Bloomfield streets and rode the bus focused on their accomplishments as people who are blind.
On September 29, there was a Post Gazette article about Pittsburgh Mercy in which Terri Winaught was featured. As part of that article, Terri was shown typing on her computer with JAWS.
Welcome to new BOLD member Susan Oberlander, partially sighted, who lives in the North Hills and would like to join us on the trip to Grove City, so she became a Bold member!
Happy Birthday to Bill and Tom Burgunder, Susan Etters, Donna McKendree and Mark Pugh and anyone else with a November birthday.
Thanks to all who contributed to the making of this newsletter.
PAST EVENTS/PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE
By Peggy Walsh
Many thanks to Ray, Cyndee and Bob Jablonowski, and helpers Joanne, Bill, Rick and Boldsters Bruce, Carrie and John, Penny’s friend. Without them there would have been no hike before dinner, outdoor games such as corn hole, bocce and tee-ball, or snacks and beverages plenty!
The traditional pizza-hoagies supper was as usual delicious and plentiful, and cupcakes and fruit squares from Kimberly S. lent the occasion sweet endings indeed!
Indoors there were darts, word games and of course Screw your neighbor, the popular card game of friendly competition. There were lots of winners, only a few people who didn’t win, all they had was fun!
Seriously, this was as usual a popular, delightful event. We had 19 participants, and a splendiferous time had by everybody!
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