The TAPING RECORDER November, 2003
News from and about Taping For The Blind, Inc. www.tapingfortheblind.org

HOLIDAY HOURS--The holidays are almost upon us. Where has this year gone,
anyway? We will have revised hours for Thanksgiving Day and the Friday
following Thanksgiving (November 27 & 28). Both days the building will be
open from 7 to 11 a.m. Normal hours for Saturday and Sunday following
Thanksgiving will be observed. We sincerely hope this will not be a great
inconvenience to you. We further hope that you and your family have a
wonderful holiday! Please let a staff member know as soon as possible if
you will not be able to do your HTBR show due to conflicting holiday
plans. This will allow us maximum time to find a substitute reader so we
can keep the programming coming for our customers.

MARATHON COMING--The HP Houston Marathon is not far away and if you are
interested in running or walking for Taping, please contact Ginger for
details. You can walk on behalf of Taping and raise money benefiting
Taping in the process. It is called "Walking/Running for a Reason." If
you know someone who is planning to run/walk in the marathon who is not
representing a charity, suggest Taping to them. Also keep your eyes peeled
for runner pledge forms soon to appear on our bulletin board. Support our
runners, and our favorite charitable organization as well!

HOLIDAY PARTY--You are cordially invited to join your fellow Taping
volunteers at our annual Holiday Party onWednesday, December 10, 2003 from
5 to 7 p.m. at 3935 Essex Lane. Food, fun, and fellowship are in order as
we celebrate another terrific year at Taping!

GREAT PROGRAM!--Our congratulations to Jim Bratton for his excellent work
developing the first in a series of locally produced programs for airing on
HTBR. The program title is "Turning Sight Into Sound" and the subject of
the first program was Career Day 2003. Career Day is an effort to assist
underemployed and unemployed blind people become smarter about looking for
a job. The planning committee contains representatives from three advocacy
organizations as well as the Texas Commission for the Blind and the Houston
Lighthouse for the Blind. This year Career Day was held on October 18,
2003. Planning meetings for this event were held in the Taping conference
room. Jim conducted interviews, wired the conference room for sound,
listened in on a planning session, and then produced a terrific program
about the event. He even captured the sound of a Metro Lift van driving
away from Taping! We have a number of other subjects for this show, with
show number 2 currently in production. It will highlight the store at the
Houston Lighthouse and the many adaptive products available there, just in
time for Christmas shopping! Great work, Mr. Bratton!

WELCOME NEW VOLUNTEERS--We say welcome to the following new volunteers who
have joined the Taping family recently. For HTBR: Laura McFall, Christie
Kobatake, Jeanetta Fields Van Rijn, Edmond Toma, Jim Bob Conner, Terri
Frederick, Jim Holliday, John Escobedo, Russell Sanders, Stephen Wimmer,
and Donna Young. For Custom Recording: Jay Dinwiddie, Jef Furtado, Dran
Alessi, Rebecca Holt, Carol Haskins, Khristi Hvidbjerg, and DeTeena
Bender. For database: Betsey Sevy. Welcome to all! We are glad that you
have joined Taping.

NOVEMBER BIRTHDAYS--We are singing Happy Birthday to the following Taping
volunteers for the month of November: 11/01 Charles Tigner; 11/05
Alexandra Olivas; 11/12 Lisa Foronda, Carl Hess; 11/14 Cynthia Thomson;
11/15 Christopher Hart, Scott Ward; 11/17 Sandra Reid; 11/19 Stan Crawford,
Anita Simpson; 11/20 Mathilda Cochran; 11/22 Bunny Cherin; 11/23 Chris
Bell; 11/25 T. Hoch; 11/26 Dan Parsons; 11/27 Donna Weaver; and 11/28
Margaret Huron. If you have a November birthday and are not listed, please
check with any staff member so we can get our records updated.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY--Here is your thought for the day:
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or
not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

RLB