Tony The Tiger

Let me continue where I left off. Isaid I would do anything in my power to keep the program running. They have had meetings on this, and I’m sure they’ll have more. The way they have it now, which is the way they have been having it for the whole time the program has been running, a system of taxi cabs will pick up the people and transport them to where they need to go. But now, they want to change it to use a system of vans. I don’t think this will work at all. For the whole time the program has existed, it has beenifited both the taxi drivers, and the people who use the Art program. But now, this van system they want to use will take away from that. Hear’s a good example. The explain it the best way I can, to anyone else who can drive, a taxi is like our own personal car. The only difference, there is someone else driving. This van system will take that away from us. Let me ask this question. Would you get on a van to ride 2 hours to get to your destination, even though it mayve only 30 minutes away? I’m sure nobody would. But that’s what you’re faced with on this van system they’re talking about. How many of you work in the workshops that have a goverment contract to hire blind people to work. I work in one of those. And if you’re late getting to work, that will take time away from you. Even if it’s not your faught. I know some people who were penalized for not being to work on time, and it was not their faught. Their van broke down, and they had to wait for someone to bring a new one so they could get to work. These taxi cabs get us around town so we can get things as indipendent as a sighted person driving a car. That’s why I want them to keep this program just the way it is.

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First let me tell you about the Art program. It’s called Accessable Raleigh Transportation. For the past 24 years it’s been in place, it’s been a grate program for the blind to get around town and be as indiipent as the sighted.
Now they are trying to get rid of the art program. they started trying to do this last year, but all of the people have been gathering together in a massive effort to keep this program in place. People have been moving to Raleigh from other parts of North Carolina, and other parts of the United States because of this program. This something that needs to be kept and i will do everything in my power to make sure the program stays. I’ll have more details of this later.

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There was a lady who dryer was broken. So she called the repairman to fix it. The repairman was on his way, and she decided that she had some dirty clothes that should go ahead and wash, and when he gets here to fix the dryer, she would put those clothes in there. She looked and saw thee dress she was waring was dirty, so she tooked that off and put that in the washer. So she’s standing there but nached.
Suddenly, there’s a knock at the door. The repairman is early. Now she’s desperately looking for something to ware. But all she can is a towel she forgot to put in the washer. On top of that, there’s a breeze comming threw the window, that’s blowing her towel off.
The repairman came in and fixed the dryer, while she’s trying to keep the towel on her. The towel had oof her favorite team on there. So as the repairman is leaving, he says, “lady! I sure hope your team wins!”

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Welcome to the world’s tallest building. The Burj Duvai. If you’re afraid of hights, you definate wouldn’t want to visit this place. you might not want to continue reading this. The Burj Dubai opened earlier this month. It stands 2600 feet tall. It has 160 floors. It’s twice the hight of the Impire State Building. There is a hotel, 37 stories of office space, 1100 apartments, the worlds highest observation deck, and much more. It’s located in the United Arab Imerates. What a sight to see/! The tallest building in Raleigh North Carolina, where I live, is 33 stories high, and that’s a sight to see.

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The story started at about 2:30 this morning. A teenage boy, I don’t know his name, but he’s 13 years old, was out with 2 guns and 250 bullets that that found in his backpack. The police were called when this boy just started shooting all of a sudden. He killed 2 people I believe, when the police arived. He had empted 1 gun and reached in his backpack for a second gun. He pulled it out and started shooting the wake County sherif’s deputies. The deputies opened fire, killing the teenager. This is a sad story, that could have been prevented.

1. It’s 2:30 in the morning. What is this boy doing out anywhere except at home?
2. How and where did he get these guns?
3. I wonder what kind of raising this boy get at home? I knew my dad had a gun. I knew where he kept it. But i knew better than to go messing with it.
Now I don’t know this family. It must be a terible loss for everyone in this family. But as parents, we must lead our children in the right direction before someone else leads them in the rong direction.

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First off, let me start off by wishing Dr. Martin Luther King a happy birthday. The dream he had, has been with me for all my life. America has come a long way since that speach in 1963, but we must keep the dream going.
I also have a dream. It is a dream that alows those with a disability to live the American dream. I have a dream, that people will not be judged by their disability but by their qualifications. I have a dream, that the my work place and home will be equipted with the things I need.
I have a dream, that the sighted and the blind will reach out to each other, and not put each other down. And finally, I have a dream, that we will not let our disability determine what we can or can not do any longer.
Happy birthday Dr. King

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We are going through a cold snap with temperatures in the 30s during the days, and in the teens at night.
Hears a story that you’d might be interested in.
Last week, a couple with a disability had just moved in to Durham, which is about 5 miles west of hear. With these cold temperatures, the days and nights have been really cold for them. They had no heat, because there gas wasn’t turned on. The energy company didn’t turn there gas on, because they didn’t have enough money to pay the deposit. Get this! They were $1.50 short. Just because of that $1.50, they couldn’t keep warm. They had to use a space heater that could barely heat one room.
So one of our local TV stations in Raleigh, have a program for problems like that. They got the manager of the energy company, which is PSNC Energy to turn the gas on. Thank God! It’s been getting barely above 30 and it’s been getting as low as 14 at night. I hope they have no more problems like that.

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I had an alright Christmas. I invited my girlfriend Sheena to spend Christmas with me and my family. We got us a hotel room, and she got to meet both of my parents. My sister came by the hotel room and brought us plenty of chicken. My mother and step father came by and we talked for quite a while. Sheena has a digree in hospitality, and she was telling my mother about how she would like to have her own buisiness planning events. I think after meetinfg my mother and telling her about what she has done, and what she plans to do, I think that has changed her mind about what a blind person can do.
Hear’s the disapointing side. Christmas evening, which was yesterday, my father picked us up, and we went to my grandmother’s house. We both got plenty to eat and after that, I got my chance to introduce Sheena to my family. But that’s where the trouble started. We were literally ignored the rest of the time we were there. On television, they were showing concerts from the Jackson 5, James Brown, and all of the other motown groups from the 1960s. Since Sheena knows alot of those artists, she knows alot about music to begin with, she wanted to get involved with the convercation about those concerts they were showing on tv. But everything she said was ignored. Now, I’m use to being treated like that. Because of I don’t have enough sight, I’ve been ignored for years. So it saddens me too, but I’m use to that. Her family will include you. They want to know all about you. They want you to be involved in all of what they are doing. And when my family ignored her like that, it just really upset her that night. It upset me too. I wanted her to have a good time with my family for Christmas, just like I had a good time with her family for Thanksgiving. But I feel so bad that didn’t happen. So this is how you treat someone who is blind? Even if that person is your own flesh and blood? She’s already said she might not come back for Christmas, and I don’t blame her. I might not come back either.

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You all know the famous story, Twas The Night Before Christmas. Well, there are some thinsg that will totally contredict that story. Quite a few things that made me believe at a young age there was no Santa Claus.
First let’s start with the house I lived in when I was a kid. It wasn’t the house you would find in twas the night before Christmas. That house supose to have a big chimney that Santa slides down. Not my house. I lived in a moble home. Or back then, they just called it a trailor, because that’s just what it looked like. An 18 wheeler’s trailor with windows in it. The outside of it was made of tin. And if any of you remember living in one of these, you know when it rains, that rain is real loud when it hits the roof of that trailor. If it’s a bad storm, and hail is comming down, it’s like someone dropping rocks on the roof. Sometimes, I thought the roof was going to fall in. So knowing that, can you imagine 8 raindeer dragging a slay with a bunch of toys and a fat man across the top of that house. The rule is, you’re supose to be asleep when Santa comes, but how are you going to sleep through that?
He’s supose to slide down a chimney. But we didn’t have that. We had an oil furnace, with a smokestack. The opening to that smoke stack, is no bigger than a car’s exaust pipe. So how is he going to slide down that? So I use to stay awake on Christmas eve just to see what really happened. My sister and I had a bedroom which was right next to the front door. So I could hear everything. I could hear them bringing the toys in the house. Well that’s my christmas story. Do you have any? I’d like to hear from you.

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I have my new home, and I’m enjoying it. It’s an 11 story highrise apartment building. The name of it is Westgrove Tower. It’s a small studio apartment on the 5th floor. Even with a small amount of space, it feels like home. If you read my earlier entry, about Raleigh Gardens, you know about the trouble that was over there. I don’t have any of that to wory about over hear. First of all, the doors are locked at night. So unless you have a scanner card, which is only available to those who live there, you can’t get inside. There is another card you use for the laundry room. Big difference from trying to finda bunch of quarters like I had to at Raleigh Gardens. I love the view from 5 stories off the ground, as well as alot of friends I have, who are blind, live here, because it’s convient for us. I love my new home!

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