Enjoy going to zoos? Reserve the date for Sacramento Zoo Deaf Awareness Day! NorCal Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing are sponsoring a special day at the zoo by having ASL interpreters on site.
When: Sept. 19
Time: 9 AM - 4 PM
Where: Sacramento Zoo at 3930 West Land Park Drive, Sacramento, CA 95822
Web site for more information: http://www.saczoo.com/ and click on “Calendar” on left side navigation menu.
Thanks, Dale Baird.
Tickets are on Sale now!
Marysville NorCal Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing are hosting their 2nd annual Dinner & Theater, “Follow the White Rabbit,” based on Alice in Wonderland.
Quick Info:
When: April 25, 2009
Where: Boyd Hall at 1895 Lassen Avenue, Yuba City, CA 95993 (Entrance is on Klamath)
Time: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Doors will open at 5:45 p.m.
Cost: $10 per person. It is strongly reccomended that you RSVP your tickets now because after April 17, only cash will be accepted.
Contact Kimberly Dethlefsen-Koons at: kdethlefsen@norcalcenter.org or call 530-763-1537, 530-740-7802 TTY. She also has OAC (Outreach Advisory Commitee) members selling tickets at locations near you.
Voice Interpreting will be provided. Dinner is served from 6 to 7, play starts at 7. Come, eat, socialize and sit back to enjoy a play in which madness ensues! Alice, the White Rabbit, the Twins, Cheshire Cat, Mad Hatter, March Hare, and the Queen and King will be present along with some of their Cards. This is also for a general audience — some of the characters are children. Click to download the Alice In Wonderland Flyer.
Check this video out if you haven’t seen it yet on Facebook or YouTube:
Interpreters - Mark your calendar:
by Lance Forshay, MS
ASL/Deaf Studies Lecturer and Program Coordinator
University of Washington
Cost: $60 before November 10th, 2008. $70 at the door.
Presenter: Lance was born deaf and is fourth of five Deaf generations. He graduated from Kansas School for the Deaf and Gallaudet University. He has a BA in Mathematics and Secondary Education. He also has a MS in Ministry from Southern Christian University, Montgomey, AL. He is presently an ASL and Deaf Studies Lecturer and Program Coordinator at the University of Washington. He is also a Language Mentor for Sorenson Video Interpreters for part time contract.
Description: This is an advanced interpreter workshop on classifier signs in ASL. The focus will be on expanding your understanding and improving your skills of applying classifiers based on visual images.
For more information, contact Tina at 530-604-4782 or tquisha4@yahoo.com.
This just in:
Mark your calendar for Friday, December 12, 2008
Holiday Open House at FREED
Center for Independent Living
508 J Street, Marysville
from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Coffee and sodas will be provided, and you are welcome to bring your favorite holiday treats to share!
* FREED is located in Del Monte Square at corner of 5th and J Street. 530-742-4474
from Claudia Hollis, FREED Center
Surfing the Internet, some gems to share — please click to read full articles on each:
Deaf horse teaches children about disabilities - Cali, a deaf wild mustang that was adopted, responds to commands through hand signals and rope movements.
Young boy saves deaf sister from house fire - In Kansas, a fire broke out in a home and the family left, except for the 4-year-old deaf sister. The 8-year-old brother went back in to save her and brought her out. Pretty inspiring, huh?
And closer to home: Chico Enterprise Record did a story on Bobbie Holcraft who interprets for the deaf.
How would you handle it if you knew you were going deaf? Jessica Stone had to undergo a surgery to remove a tumor that would leave her deaf. She prepared for it by making a video diary of her last month hearing things and learned sign language. Even her family pitched in.
On the other side of the globe, a deaf African who also cannot speak, was noted for his achievements after he was brought to US and given an interpreter.
Barksdale Theatre is incorporating ASL into every show of the 2008-09 season to make their plays accessible to the deaf.
Hope you enjoyed today’s trip around Cyberspace!
Appeal-Democrat Reporter Robert LaHue forwarded this over to me. He’s an alumni of the College of the Siskiyous, where this person is featured at.
Mount Shasta Area Newspapers ran a feature article on John “Loy” Estes. Click for the original.
Speaking of ASL instructors, here is a list of local ASL classes:
Yuba College
American River College
Sierra College
California State University Sacramento
Fellow Appeal-Democrat blogger and reporter, Robert LaHue, has declared on his blog that he will shave his eyebrows if he raises $1,000 by May 21 for his participation in Relay for Life.
Help him do this!
Online Relay for Life Donation web page, click here.
Last Friday was interesting. The Mid-Valley (encompassing the Yuba-Sutter and outlying towns) experienced blackouts and violent storms starting Thursday night and into Sunday. I slept peacefully through the storm but woke up Friday morning at 5 to some tremors. The winds had hit gusts of 65 mph and was buffering the house. Then the power blinked off sometimes around 6 a.m. I woke up at 7:30 a.m. to a dark house. I went to work and arrived at 10 a.m. to find everyone standing in the main hallway — in the dark.
I thought as a Deaf person, that it was strange that people were standing in the dark talking when we have a naturally lit kitchen with floor to ceiling windows. It’s too dark for me to “hear.”
The day was spent updating the web from any laptop that had a card before the internal battery ran out of stored power, until the ITs set up 6 working computers running off two gas powered generators. That allowed the Appeal-Democrat to pull off the day’s real “daily miracle” as Editor Len La Barth coined it in a note to Readers in the Saturday’s paper. There’s a picture in our Staff Photography Gallery of a few of us crowded in the back hallway pulling off the miracle. That’s Gordon Webb, the IT Assistant, standing in the back with a hand to his forehead. Yes, it was rather stressing.
The weekend was uneventful. Power was restored at my home by 5 p.m. Friday evening and our phone on Sunday morning. Thousands are still without electricity, though.
Today (Monday) is basically catch-up day before the next series of storms hit us.
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I have a couple announcements.
David Kur let me know via e-mail today that a brand-new
CalDeaf.com has been launched today. It is a calendar listing all of Deaf-related events taking place in California alone.
Features are:
-Browse hundreds of deaf events in California!
-Bookmark the website and you’ll never miss any more deaf gatherings, expos, or events!
- Discover and share events with your friends
- Post your events and pictures of past events… and more
- Search for upcoming events by keyword, month, week, or day
- Sort events by region
- Event pages can include photo galleries, videos, and maps
- Receive reminder emails, and send your friends emails about the events
- Sign up for notifications of new events
- Comment on events, either by text or video
Finally, a home for the California Deaf Community. Once you’re there, you’ll never want to leave!
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Next, FREED has a list of Support Group meeting for 2008.
Cross-Disability peer support group meets every second Wednesday of the month at 10 a.m. at the FREED office, 508 J Street, Marysville, CA.
Hearing Loss support group meets every third Wednesday of the Month at 10 a.m. at the same location mentioned above.
Contact Information: Claudia Hollis, (530) 742-4474 voice and TTY.
I hope all had a Merry Christmas. I did. 
Here is the list of Deaf Events for this weekend and next week.
Advance Plans/Save the Date:
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