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Willie’s Good News
I am excited to let you know that Willie, the puppy who Wendy worked with as a Southeastern puppy-in-training from August 2019 to October 2020, has been placed with her forever person. This placement means Willie is well on her way to becoming a Southeastern Guide Dog in a few weeks. I hope Willie will
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Blind Ability Podcast
After listening to the Blind ability’s podcast titled “the Unified English Braille (UEB) Practice Sentences – Comprehensive, Ready to Use and Fun.”, I spoke with Roberta Becker As Roberta mentioned in the podcast she is not out to push her book but want to assist people learning to read Braille. Since it has been over
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World Record Ratified
The International Waterski and Wakeboard Federation (IWWF) ratified my pending World Slalom Record from the 2019 Disabled World Championships with a score of 5.50/58/12.00 which is a New World V1 Men’s Slalom Record. Thank you to the organizers and all who volunteered at the World Championships, the IWWF for their review, and everyone else who supported me through the years. A very
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Successful World Championships
The USA Adaptive Water Ski Team won the gold medal at the 14th Barbara Bolding/Jim Grew Disabled Water Ski World Championships, July 25-28, in Skarnes, Norway. I won the gold medal in Vision Impaired Men slalom (5.50/58/12.00), my slalom score skied in the finals ties the existing World Record. I also won the bronze medal
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2019 Disabled Waterski Worlds Audio Slalom – Final Round
The below link will start playing The Waterski Broadcasting Company produced video at the beginning of the audio slalom final round. I hope, you enjoy watching the audio slalom final round of the 2019 Disabled waterski Worlds as much as I enjoyed skiing in it.
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Aira At Work
On June 3, I explained how I used Aira to assist learning new routes when walking with Subi and demonstrated the Aira service. Aira Agent, Lauren, makes a cameo appearance during the presentation. I also use Aira to read my computer screen and documents containing graphics and pictures that my screen reader cannot decode. From
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First Time Water Skier
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to help Nick learn to ski…never mind Nick is a 12-year old boy who is blind. Check out the video and you will hear Nick’s dad is as excited as Wendy and me as Nick takes a pass down the lake.
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Good Luck Mystery!
Taylor took a one-second video all 376 days we had Mystery our second Guide Dogs for the Blind (GDB) puppy-in-training. The video shows pictures of Mystery from 10 weeks old about 15 months old. Mystery is back at GDB starting guide dog training.
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Belly Flops
Over 100 of my Anadarko co-workers who attended a Lunch & Learn where me and my family presented our experiences while using a guide dog and raising a puppy-in-training for a guide dog school were given a bag of Belly Flops. It took over 25 pounds of Belly Flops to create the individual bags. About
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Omega Return Trip
Check out the video my daughter, Taylor, made back in May 2018 showing Omega’s return trip to the GDB campus in Boring, Oregon.https://video.wordpress.com/embed/ED0K2Iau?hd=0&autoPlay=0&permalink=1&loop=0&preloadContent=metadata&muted=0&playsinline=0&controls=1&cover=1 The video is added here to introduce a lunch and learn I plan to present at Anadarko in early June.
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