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Hummingbirds on my Deck

Hummingbirds
Informative Website:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufous_Hummingbird
My Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdX-8uxN6lo

While I was relaxing on my deck with my mom and friends today we saw two beautiful Hummingbirds land on on my Hummingbird feeder.  I was delighted to see these amazing little birds are back for the summer! If you enlarge this picture by clicking on it you will see the little Hummingbird drinking […]

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DisAbility Awareness Day at Massasoit Community College

Massasoit Community College’s
Helping Hands Club

DisAbility Awareness Day
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
11 AM – 1 PM
Student Center Upper Lounge Brockton campus (Rte. 27)
 
SHARING INFORMATION, RESOURCES and ABILITIES

Braille demonstration

Disability Program Navigator from Brockton’s CareerWorks

Epilepsy Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island

The Traveling Wheelchair’s accessibility reviews

House of Possibilities – respite care

Family to Family Support Center –Brockton Area Arc

Asperger’s Association of […]

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Accessible Bluebirds and Songbirds Spring of 2010

Accessible Bluebirds and Songbirds
Middleboro, MA

Spring of 2010 has arrived and bluebirds and other beautiful songbirds are returning to nest in my yard. I LOVE watching beautiful bluebirds and other songbirds which is a very accessible hobby for me and all other bird lovers. I especially love watching bluebirds fly; it’s the most breathtaking sight; it’s […]

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Kenny & Company Welcomes ‘Where’s Lulu’ to Boston!

Kenny & Company Welcomes  Where’s Lulu  to Boston!
Where’s Lulu
Boston, MA

http://boston.whereslulu.com/

Kenny & Company of The Traveling Wheelchair is pleased to announce a ‘Partnership on Accessibility’ with Caitlin “Lulu” Wood and Toshio Meronek, best friends and founders of Where’s Lulu.

Where’s Lulu is a free online community where people with disabilities can get accurate information on accessibility, and provide that information […]

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Irish Cultural Centre of New England

200 New Boston Drive
Canton, Massachusetts, 02021
Phone: 781-821-8291

http://www.irishculture.org/
 

Wednesday, Saint Patrick’s Day my mom, Amanda, Ric and I, dressed in our green headed to the Irish Cultural Centre of New England for an Irish lunch.  I’ve always enjoyed celebrating St. Patrick’s’ Day. My mom’s all Irish and my dad’s  all Polish and I’m PROUD to be half Irish. I […]

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“Focus” on Vision Impairment & Blindness Conference

Vision & Vision Loss Services, DDS
Shriver Clinical Services Corporation
607 North Ave. Door 14
Wakefield, MA 01880

www.mass.gov/dmr/visionloss

Four Points by Sheraton Norwood Hotel & Conference Center
1125 Boston-Providence Turnpike (Route 1)
Norwood, MA 02062
Phone: 781-769-7900

http://www.fourpointsnorwood.com/

Wednesday, I had the wonderful opportunity of attending the fifth “Focus” on Vision Impairment & Blindness Conference; Meeting the Needs of Individuals with Intellectual Disability & […]

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COMMUNITY RESOURCE FAIR in MIDDLEBORO - MARCH 30TH

RESOURCE FAIR
For the Community
Elders, the Disabled and the Unemployed
Tuesday
MARCH 30, 2010
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
at
Middleboro Council on Aging – COA
558 Plymouth Street
Middleborough, MA

http://www.middleborocoa.com/
Information, Resource Tables, Agency Representatives
TOPICS INCLUDE: Advocacy, Health Insurance, Food Programs, Employment Services, Home Modification and Housing, Job Search, Transportation, Support Services and a wide variety of helpful Community Resources
ARC
D.E.A.F
Pro-Home
Independent Associates
GATRA Transportation
MA Dept […]

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Tragic Ohio Accident for Wheelchair Passengers

John Seewer, Correspondent
Associated Press, Toledo
The Blade
541 N. Superior St.
Toledo, OH 43614
Phone: 419-255-7113

http://www.ap.org/ohio/

This morning my mom and I had the wonderful opportunity to speak with John Seewer, a very kind, compassionate and caring Correspondent with the Associated Press in Toledo Ohio. John contacted me about my efforts to increase Transportation Safety for people traveling in wheelchairs. […]

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Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters

An International Workshop on
After the cameras have gone:
Rebuilding Sustainable Communities in Haiti after the January 12 Earthquake

April 9, 2010
 
www.rebuilding.umb.edu 
An event of the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies
Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters
at the University of Massachusetts Boston
 
The Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters (CRSCAD), in concert with a number of […]

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Barry’s Hallamore Clydesdale Horses - 2010

138 Bedford Street ( Rte. 18)
Lakeville, MA 02347
Hallamore Clydesdale Horses:
http://www.thebige.com/agriculture/page2327.html
Hallamore Corporation:
http://hallamore.com/
2010 You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtj74G9uRms

I feel fortunate that beautiful Hallamore Clydesdale Horses live a mile from my home at Barry’s in Lakeville, Massachusetts. I wrote one of my first wheelchair accessibility review of 
Barry’s Clydesdale Horses in April of 2008 which you can read by clicking on
http://thetravelingwheelchair.com/barrys-clydesdale-horses/ . This […]

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