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OFFICE OF HANDICAPPED CONCERNS
WILL'S CORNER, OKLAHOMA
(Serving the Disability Community of Oklahoma)
Volume 4, Issue 2
June, 2003
FROM THE DIRECTOR’S DESK
We are completing the second year of an economic downturn in this
state. As with all state agencies, funds
for agency services have been reduced significantly. However, the
Office of Handicapped Concerns, in light
of these reductions, still maintains an agency priority providing
accurate, up-to-date information in a
timely manner. This past year we have responded to 66,607 requests
for agency services. We invite you to
contact us on our website www.ohc.state.ok.us or to use our
toll-free number outside the metro
800-522-8224.
Steve Stokes
Director, Office of Handicapped Concerns
OHC web site:
www.ohc.state.ok.us
100 Years, Happy Birthday Robert Qualls
“Mr. Qualls, may I call you Robert?”
“Sure.”
“You turned 100 years old on April 11. Was it a great experience
achieving this milestone?”
“Well, not really, Will. I told my friends that I had put it off
just about as long as I could. I guess
I’m going to have to admit that I’m getting old.”
“(Chuckle) Well yeah. Did you have a special celebration?”
“They told me they were going to invite a few friends and family
here in Enid, but it turned out to be a
real wingding. We had a large room reserved in a local restaurant,
and I had lots of well wishers. I have
worked as an advocate for people who are blind for many years in
Oklahoma, and many of them came out to help
me celebrate.”
“Robert, I first heard about you in a media release from the
Department of Rehabilitation Services. Their
release said the Oklahoma Council for the Blind was planning a
special birthday celebration for you at the
Library for the Blind in Oklahoma City. I think Governor Brad Henry
signed some kind of special citation
for you which was presented that day. When I heard 100 years and I
heard blindness, I knew I had to contact
you. Will you tell me your story, Robert? Will you tell me about
you and disability and our state of
Oklahoma back at the turn of the last century?”
Robert Qualls
It’s hard to know where to start. I guess I’ll need to begin at the
beginning back on the farm in Marlow.
I was playing with a pitch fork throwing it on the ground and
listening to its tines vibrate and sing. My
eye got bruised and my sight began to go bad. Today they might have
called it macular degeneration, but
back then they didn’t know what to call it or how to treat it. In
1913 my family sent me to the Oklahoma
School for the Blind in Muskogee to go to school. I actually had
some sight left then but soon became
totally blind. I’ll never forget leaving my family and taking the
train to El Reno as a young boy. I had
to change to the Interurban train in El Reno going to Oklahoma
City. From Oklahoma City I changed trains
again before arriving in Muskogee. Way back then you didn’t get to
come home every weekend like the
students get to do now. We were separated from our families and
actually lived on campus. We went to
school on the campus of the School for the Blind and learned our
regular subjects as well as things which
would help us earn a living like piano tuning, broom making, and
basket weaving. I first learned the trade
of piano tuning right there in Muskogee, and I made my living from
this during most of my adult life. I
actually graduated from the School for the Blind in 1924. (Gosh,
that was a long time ago.) I went to
Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth that same year and was the
first blind person ever to be enrolled at
that school. I took notes in Braille and either answered test
questions orally or typed the answers out. I
used thread and cardboard to make the angles and graphs for my
trigonometry class. I got my Bachelor of
Arts degree from TCU in English in 1928 and this was followed by a
master of arts in 1929 in philosophy. I
had my hopes set on teaching English and/or speech and drama at the
college level. With this in mind, I
attended the Curry School of expression in Boston, Massachusetts on
a scholarship. But, something got in
the way of my plans, and it didn’t have anything to do with my
disability. It had to do with something that
happened to all Oklahomans and Americans regardless of ability.
They called it the Great Depression, and I wasn’t able to get a job
teaching like I had planned. I didn’t
know if I was going to be able to get any kind of a job. Times were
bad, and I had moved back to Oklahoma
as a single man. I got a hotel room on North Broadway in Oklahoma
City for $14 per month. A man by the
name of General Keyes and his staff person, Homer Heck , ran the
Works Progress Administration in Oklahoma
City. I was able to sell Homer Heck on the idea of hiring
twenty-five blind people across Oklahoma to go
into the schools, civic organizations, and work places to teach
visual safety. We taught children and
adults to be conscious of their eyes and to protect their sight.
Our teachers in rural Oklahoma made $38
per month. In Oklahoma cities the same position might pay $80 per
month. I actually got $150 per month to
administer the program. That was a lot of money, especially in the
Depression. You could buy a full meal
for 15 cents then.
Way back in 1934 or 35’, I don’t remember which one, up in
Washington D.C. they passed legislation called
the Shepherd/Randolph Bill. This bill was very important to blind
people because it provided for the first
opening up of vending stands to give blind people a way to make a
living. In the process of implementing
the Shepherd/Randolph Bill in Oklahoma, I talked to a state
legislator from Leflore County. I told this
legislator that if we passed legislation right here in Oklahoma
authorizing vending stands to be run by
people who were blind that this would give them a job. I was
lobbying hard for our cause. The legislator
looked at me a long time and said, “If we gave a farmer 40 acres
and a mule, he could make a living too.”
We got our money from the State Legislature to begin the blind
vending program in public buildings across
Oklahoma. They gave us about $25,000. The first vending stand
actually opened up in the post office in
Muskogee, Oklahoma in the mid 30’s. I opened up a vending stand in
the post office right here in Enid in
1936.
Now let me digress a little here. I actually moved out of that
hotel in Oklahoma City in the early 30’s and
got room and board at a preacher’s home. My future wife was cooking
and serving as a nanny to the
preacher’s children at the time for her own room and board. Layleth
was attending Oklahoma University at
the time where she was studying to be a secretary. She never became
that secretary. Instead she became my
wife and business partner for more than 50 years. We worked
together those many years to raise our family
and to establish our business. I told you we opened up a vending
stand in the post office in Enid in 1936.
I tuned pianos on the side to supplement our income. Finally, in
1947, we got out of the vending business
and devoted ourselves to tuning pianos, and we were successful.
Layleth would drive for me. We had contracts with several private
and public colleges to tune all their
pianos. We went to Chickasha, Weatherford, and Alva to tune the
pianos at local colleges. I did the work,
and Layleth kept the books. Our two sons, Robert and George, were
born in 1938 and 1943. We made a living.
I became a charter member of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma
League for the Blind in Oklahoma City in
1949, and I served on their board for 40 years. I am still a member
of the board emeritus. (The League for
the Blind is a workshop for people who are blind.) During these
times, we noticed that blind people had a
lot of trouble borrowing money. In 1958 I became a charter member
of the Association of the Blind of
Oklahoma and Texas Credit Union. This credit union was a result of
the efforts of the Oklahoma Council for
the Blind of which I am also a member. That’s about it, Will That’s
the long story of my life. I have
been totally blind almost 90 years. I have lived in Oklahoma all of
my life except when I went out of state
for my higher education. I have lived in this state since before
statehood. Oklahoma has been good to me.
I can truthfully say I have had a full life.
Robert Qualls lost his faithful wife of over 50 years in January,
1987. He himself had a battle with colon
cancer back in 1990. He walks .6 of a mile everyday at the mall in
Enid and faithfully climbs the eight
stairs in his house ten times a day to supplement his walking.
Robert still owns his own car and hires a
driver to take him all the places he needs to go. He continues to
operate his piano tuning business of over
56 years. He concludes our interview explaining that he has another
piano tuning job scheduled tomorrow
morning. Why doesn’t that surprise me? Let this be a tribute to an
Oklahoman who has served the disability
community for a lifetime. When asked about his plans for the next
100 years, he answered, “When you think
of all the changes that have taken place in my first hundred years,
I figure we better just take one day at
a time.”
SPECIAL EDUCATION AND YOU
The IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) is federal
legislation affecting how local school
districts serve children with special needs in this country. It
began as Public Law 94-142 back in 1975 and
established education for children with disabilities in the public
school system. Before this date, schools
did not have to serve children with special needs as many parents
were painfully aware. Today most of the
larger school districts in Oklahoma have Special Education
departments with teachers trained to work with
children with disabilities. Children with a variety of needs are
served including children with physical
disabilities and children with mental disabilities. Classes are
frequently small and may include a
teacher’s aid to help address the multiple needs which a single
student may have. The Individuals with
Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is up for reauthorization this
year—the first reauthorization since 1997.
As Washington, D.C. focuses again on the delivery of Special
Education services in the U.S. public school
system, change is in the air. Change can be good, and change can be
bad. Sometimes it can be a curious
mixture of the two. And change plays out differently in the life of
each of our families who have children
with disabilities in the public school system.
I am with Sharon Bishop in her small but quite cozy office with a
nice window all tucked away in a building
which houses a bank together with offices in suburban Del City,
Oklahoma. Sharon Bishop is the director of
the Oklahoma Parent Center which advocates for parents and children
with disabilities. (The main office
which serves the whole state of Oklahoma does maintain some small
satellite offices in Agra, Blanchard,
Holdenville, and Wagoner.)
“Sharon, I came to visit you because I have begun to hear a lot
about the reauthorization of the IDEA. I
know you advocate for parents with children in Special Education in
the public schools, and I wanted to come
to you to get some information about this.”
“Just for your information, the current bill in Congress which
contains the reauthorization of the IDEA is
HR1350. ”
“I hear that HR1350 would make some changes in the delivery of
Special Education services in the public
schools. Is that true?”
“That is true.”
“How?”
“As HR1350 currently stands, discipline in Special Education
classes becomes a focus. This bill allows
school administration at the local level to exclude children with
special needs who they feel are a
discipline problem from public education at the public school site.
It would allow the school to
unilaterally choose the placement of a student without consultation
with the larger Team of parents and
concerned parties.”
“I guess what I have been hearing about is the elimination of a
yearly IEP meeting and going to a three-year
IEP.”
“You have been hearing wrong there, Will. The reauthorization of
IDEA in HR1350 discusses a three-year IEP
as optional, and allows parents to request a yearly IEP if they
feel that is in the best interest of their
child.”
“Are there other proposed changes in this bill?”
“Yes, under HR1350 as it stands, short-term objectives in the IEP
(Individual Education Plan) would be
eliminated.”
“What does that mean?”
“I understand short-term objectives as the mechanism which helps to
get your child to achieve the broad
objectives that the Team establishes as goals. For instance, there
might be a broad goal for your child to
read at a certain level, and a short-term objective might be to
spend one hour per day teacher/student in
one-on-one, directed readings. The short-term objective is how you
would get to the broad goal you had
established for this child.”
“What other changes might happen in the IDEA if the reauthorization
remains as it is written?”
“The dispute resolution process is part of HR1350. Right now we
have formal complaints, mediation, and due
process as means of addressing concerns which parents have
regarding the Special Education of their children
with local school districts. Under HR1350, states would have to
offer binding arbitration with no appeal
and a one-year statute of limitations to resolve disputes with the
school as one option. The Governor of
every state would be empowered to set the amount of attorney fees a
parent would be reimbursed if the parent
won a due process hearing. As things stand now, parents who are
successful in a due process may be
reimbursed 100% of their attorney fees by the local school
district.”
“All these things seem to put a little shift in things. It sounds
like the relationship of concerned
parties would be changed.”
“HR1350 as it stands would drastically change the way we offer
Special Education services now.”
“What can I do?”
“You don’t have to do anything. If you are interested in learning
more about HR1350, you can download a copy
at www.nationalparentcenters.org. You may contact your Congressman
or Senator regarding how you feel about
specifics of the reauthorization. You can find out how to contact
your elected representatives by calling
the county election board in the county in which you live. There
may be local telephone numbers where you
can contact your representatives as well as numbers in Washington,
D.C. Email addresses will probably be
available for those who have online access.”
“Can I call you?”
“I can give you information on HR1350. My number here at the
Oklahoma Parent Center is 405-619-0500 in the
Oklahoma City area or 1-877-553-4332 statewide.”
The Oklahoma Parent Center is a statewide parent training and
information center. They provide workshops
across Oklahoma dealing with the IDEA and related laws, the IEP
process, transition from school to community
and other things of interest to parents of children in Special
Education in the public schools. Sharon
tells me that the Oklahoma Parent Center is sponsoring a conference
September 19 of this year at the OSU
Oklahoma City campus. Call OPC for more information if you are
interested.
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Every time I think about exercise,
I lie down till the thought goes away.
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You know you live in the year 2003 if . . .
you buy a computer and six months later it is out of date and sells
for half the price. or . . .
if using real money instead of credit or debit to make a purchase
would be a hassle.
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Hire People With Disabilities. . .And Get a Tax Credit Too!
April was tax month. Nobody forgot that—at least I hope. Did you
owe Uncle Sam? I know I did. How can
taxes be a good thing? How can tax credits help a person with a
disability who wants to get a job, and how
can tax credits help an employer who wants to hire a person with a
disability. It’s a good time to give you
some insider tips on little incentives which could help you get a
job.
I’m here this fine morning with Marilyn Burr who is the Disability
Program Specialist at our office who
specializes on information about the employment of people with
disabilities. Marilyn tells me she has some
tips for you that might help you get a job. If you are an employer,
she has some tips for you which might
save you some money if you’re willing to hire a person with
disabilities.
“Marilyn, what is the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC)?”
“First let me tell you what a tax credit is. A tax credit is money
off the top of taxes you owe Uncle Sam.
If I owe $3000 taxes and Uncle Sam tells me he’ll accept $600
instead, that’s a tax credit. I have saved
$2400 in taxes. The Work Opportunity Tax Credit is a tax discount
Uncle Sam gives an employer for hiring a
person with a disability. It is an incentive to consider hiring a
person with a disability. As a person
with a disability, I still have to be qualified for the job.”
“OK, Marilyn, let me get this straight. The tax credit goes to the
employer of a person with disabilities
and not directly to the person with disabilities?”
“The tax credit goes to the employer but the person who really
benefits is obviously the person with a
disability who is looking for a job. The payoff for the person with
a disability is getting the job.”
“So they’re going to hire me because I save them money on their
taxes?”
“Will, they’re going to hire you because you are the best-qualified
for the job. The tax savings is just an
extra thank you from Uncle Sam.”
“So how does it work?”
“You get an ETA 9062 and an IRS 8850 from your Vocational
Rehabilitation counselor and present this to your
potential employer. If that employer decides to hire you, he or she
would complete their portion of these
two forms and return them to Paul Williams at the Oklahoma
Employment Security Commission. (That address is
P.O. Box 52003 in Oklahoma City 73152-2003). Paul Williams verifies
the information and issues an ETA 9063
directly to the employer which can be turned in with their yearly
income tax statement. It’s that simple.”
“So how much money is this going to deduct from my potential
employer’s taxes due?”
“If your employer employs you 400 hours or more in a year, we’re
talking about a tax credit of up to 40% of
the first $6000 wages which your employer pays to you. In this
case, it could be as much as $2400 for one
employee in one year. If your employer employs you between 120 and
399 hours in a year, we’re talking about
a tax credit of up to 25% of the first $6000 in wages--$1500.”
“You are discussing this tax credit for people who have been
clients of Vocational Rehabilitation within the
last two years. What about people with disabilities who have never
had a case with Vocational
Rehabilitation? Can they still qualify for the Work Opportunity Tax
Credit?”.
“Yes, they can. If they have never had a case with Vocational
Rehabilitation or it has been over two years
since they had a case, it is possible to qualify if they are an SSI
beneficiary (Supplemental Security
Income). The SSI recipient must have received SSI benefits any
month during the sixty days preceding their
hire date. In the case of the SSI beneficiary who does not have a
Vocational Rehabilitation counselor, the
beneficiary would request an ETA 9061 and an IRS 8850 directly from
Paul Williams. You have Mr. Williams’
address. His telephone is 405-557-5371. OESC has a website at
www.oesc.state.ok.us. Click on employment
service and on the menu to the left will be WOTC where you can
download all the forms you need if you wish
to get your own forms.”
“You mentioned a dollar amount in one year the employer can save.
Can I keep on bringing this tax credit to
my employer for as many years as he or she keeps me on the
payroll?”
“The Work Opportunity Tax Credit is good for one employee only for
the first year they are employed by a
particular employer. After that you’re on your own.”
“What if somebody hires me, gets the tax credit, and then lets me
go three months later?”
“In order for an employer to claim the WOTC, he or she must employ
you for at least 120 hours in a year. If
the employer employs you between 120 and 399 hours in a year, they
may claim the tax credit at the rate of
25% of the first $6000 wages. If the employer employs you 400 hours
or more in a year, they may claim the
tax credit at the rate of $40% of the first $6000 wages.”
“Let me play devil’s advocate Marilyn. If I’m an employer of a
person with a disability, I don’t have time
to fool with all this. I’m thinking all the paperwork isn’t worth
it. Too many hoops to jump through.”
“Too many hoops to receive a tax discount of as much as $2400 for
one employee right off the top of taxes
due? Too many hoops to add that extra incentive which may give you
a chance at a job you really wanted?
Think about it. As a person with a disability, you only need to
contact your Vocational Rehabilitation
counselor or Paul Williams to get your forms. As an employer, you
only need to complete the forms within 21
days of hiring the person with a disability. Paul Williams at the
OESC will give you what you need to
verify that you have hired a qualified person under the Work
Opportunity Tax Credit. Last year Oklahoma
employers benefited with over $16,000,000 in taxes saved under tax
credits. Tax credits make good cents.”
Marilyn kept on reminding me of the benefits I could receive from
the Work Opportunity Tax Credit—benefits
which both the employer and the employee could claim. So if you
have some questions about the WOTC, call
Marilyn at the toll-free number of the Office of Handicapped
Concerns 1-800-522-8224. She’d be happy to
visit with you. She also promises me that she is going to give us
some more insider tips in future editions
of Will’s Corner, Oklahoma on incentives to hire people with
disabilities. Apparently there are several
other tax credits which employees could use as an incentive to hire
people with disabilities in addition to
the fact that we are good, loyal employees who are qualified and
want to work.
ALL CHILDREN TOGETHER DAYCAMP
You know, it just kinda happened by accident. I mean, I’m sitting
here in my office working on my computer.
The background music is going like it always is. I alternate
between CD’s, tapes, and the radio and today
I am tuned into the classical station KCSC out of Edmond. KCSC
doesn’t have a lot of advertising, but today
I notice a pause in the music. A beautiful voice announces the All
Children Together daycamp, and then I
hear the part which really gets my attention. The word is children
with disabilities. This organization
runs a six-week daycamp for children with disabilities out of two
churches in the Oklahoma City metro. Wow!
Did I hear this right? Is there a place where children with
disabilities can go to have fun and which is
willing to work with their special needs? Folks, I gotta see this.
I want to know more about it. Check
this out.
I’m thinking now from the viewpoint of a parent who has a child
with special needs. There’s nobody out
there willing or able to work with my child in my community.
There’s all sorts of special summer programs
out there for children and adolescents who are typical children,
but there’s practically nothing out there
for children with special needs. My child has uncontrolled
seizures. My child has emotional disturbances.
My child is 14 and still uses disposable briefs. Who will be
willing to change him? The list goes on. My
child needs to be suctioned with her trache. My child needs
assistance eating. Who’s got the training to
deal with these issues in the context of summer fun activities?
That’s why I don’t work. I pretty much
devote my life to my child. You may be a parent like this or just a
parent looking for summer fun for your
child. Well, it’s out there. It does exist—at least here in the
Oklahoma City area it exists. See what
you think.
This morning I have gone to the Northwest Christian Church not too
far from our offices at the Office of
Handicapped Concerns located on the near northwest side of Oklahoma
City. I am speaking with Kim Holmes who
is the director of the All Children Together daycamp. “Kim, first I
want to know if All Children Together
is a religious daycamp restricted to church members.”
Kim Holmes
“Absolutely not. We are a private organization completely separate
from the Northwest Christian Church and
the other program location at the Del City Christian Church on the
southeast side of the metro. These two
churches provide us a physical location for our program. My salary
and the salary of our daycamp employees
are paid by All Children Together. We do not offer religious
instruction.”
“What is your program, Kim?”
“We offer a six-week daycamp for children with disabilities from
Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. until 3
p.m. beginning June 16 of this year and extending through July 24.
We typically have modules of activities
going on simultaneously where children may have a choice of coming
and going into arts and crafts, games, or
book areas.
Interspersed during the day are structured time periods where we
might offer a cooking project or something
else. This summer we are scheduling four field trips which might
include something like the Omniplex,
bowling, or the Sam Noble Museum in Norman. We have found that
working with children with disabilities we
have more success with field trips to indoor things. We do have
outside play at our location here at
Northwest Christian Church and at our location at Del City
Christian Church, but these outdoor activities
are for short periods of time considering the summer heat.”
“Kim, here’s a biggie for you. What ages do you serve, and what
disability groups?”
“Our youngest is five years old. As a rule, we do not serve
children younger than that. Right now we have
a young man who is twenty-one who has enrolled for our daycamp
beginning June 16. We do not have an upper
limit, although young adults might not have the interest in our
activities that a school-age person might
have. We serve people with all disabilities—both mental and
physical. We serve people with severe
disabilities as well as those with mild disability.”
“Do you serve individuals with medical involvements or with
behavior problems?”
“We try to work with individuals and families to meet their needs.
We do not have nurses, but if a parent
will sign they are satisfied with non-medical personnel performing
something like tube feeding and are
willing to show us exactly how they do it, we are willing to work
with that person. Keep in mind that the
majority of our staff at both locations is either special education
teachers in the public schools or
paraprofessionals working in the public schools. We do have
experience working with this population.”
“And what about individuals with behavior problems?”
“We realize that behavior problems are often a part of the
disability an individual may have. We make every
effort to work around the behavior problem. If a person is a danger
either to themselves or to others, we
may ask they provide their own staff in our program. We use rewards
for good behavior and time out if
behavior is less than satisfactory. This gives a person a time to
cool down and re-think.”
“What is the cost of your summer daycamp?”
“We ask $350 per child. We realize that many parents cannot pay
this full amount in one payment, and we are
willing to work with parents on a payment plan which will meet
their needs.”
“What kind of enrollment are you looking for in your summer six
week session?”
“We look for 25 to 30 people at each of our locations—here at
Northwest Christian Church and at the Del City
Christian Church location.”
“Of course what everybody wants to know is if you have any
openings. Do you?”
“We still have openings. But even if we fill up, complete an
application anyway so that if we have a
cancellation we can call you.”
Kim Holmes is an interesting woman. Her pastor at the Northwest
Christian Church (Ryan Pfeiffer) tells me
that she is passionate about what she does. Mr. Pfeiffer tells me
that All Children Together daycamp is not
run by any church organization. All Children Together is applying
for a private, non-profit status as its
own entity. In the meantime, the churches are providing a safe,
comfortable place for kids with
disabilities to enjoy themselves for six weeks during the summer.
Check it out for yourself. For more
information, call 405-943-4477 and ask about the All Children
Together daycamp. I wish you and your
children a wonderful summer season.
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Love is that first feeling you feel before all the bad stuff gets
in the way.
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Brain cells come, and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever.
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Youth is not entirely a time of life—it is a state of mind. It is
not wholly a matter of ripe cheeks, red
lips or supple knees. It is a temper of will, a quality of the
imagination, a vigor of the emotions.
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow
old only by deserting their ideals. You
are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears, as
young as your hope, as old as your despair.
In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber;
so long as it receives messages of
beauty, hope, cheer, and courage, you are young. When the wires are
all down and your heart is covered with
the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only
then, have you grown old.
Ann Landers
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MARK YOUR CALENDAR
June 6-8, 2003 4th Annual Hanger Endeavor Games for athletes with
physical disabilities at the University of Central
Oklahoma. The Hanger Endeavor Games
offers competition to amputee, cerebral palsy,
wheelchair, and blind athletes. Contact Katrina
Shaklee for more information at 405-722-8744 or
www.sportsgroupinc.com.
June 21, 2003 Make Promises Happen Family Adventure Day for people
with disabilities of all ages, parents, and caregivers. Contact
800-299-2811 or 405-282-2811 in the OKC metro.
June 29, 2003 45th Annual Picnic of the Enid Association of the
Deaf
at Enid’s Meadowlake Park. Contact jcoffman@pldi.net.
July 19, 2003 The Bethany/Warr Acres Chapter of People First is
spon-
soring a dance for adults with disabilities at Mount St.
Mary High School in Oklahoma City (2801 S. Shartel)
from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. Tickets are $2 per person or $3
per couple at the door. For more information contact
William Ginn at 405-521-3756.
July 19-21, 2003 KAW Deaf Camper in Kaw City, Oklahoma. Contact
jwynnkaburd@webtv.net.
If you have an event coming up relating to disability, let us know
at 800-522-8224 and we’ll help you
publicize.
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