Domestic Violence Awareness: Got T-Shirt?

2010 February 8
by Elvis Zornoza

The Clothesline Project

WANT TO PAINT A SHIRT?

 
Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness (GLAD)
2222 Laverna Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90041
Please bring a plain T-shirt from home to paint on.
For more information, please contact Jennifer Stuessy at 866-298-2795 VP

jstuessy@gladinc.org or call 323-478-8000 Voice and leave your contact information.

Survivors of abuse Family and close friends who saw abuse
Please join us on one of these dates!
Tuesday, February 23
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 27
12:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, March 2
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Friday, March 19
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

National Wear RED Day

2010 February 5
by Elvis Zornoza

Go Red For Women celebrates the energy, passion and power we have as women to band together to wipe out heart disease and stroke.


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Deaf CSUN Basketball Player is An Inspiration

2010 February 4
by Elvis Zornoza

Deaf CSUN basketball player is an inspiration
By Vincent Bonsignore, Staff Writer
Updated: 02/03/2010 06:39:59 PM PST

CSUN basketball player Michael Lizarraga, left, who is deaf, laughs as teammate Willie Galick signs with Lizarraga. Photographed at CSUN, Tuesday, February 2, 2010. (Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer) (Michael Owen Baker)
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PCA-Riverside County Presents SUPERBOWL!

2010 February 2
by Gloria Moriarty

Dear Friends!

Please join us for our First Annual SUPERBOWL Sunday VIP Party for Prevent Child Abuse Riverside County, Sunday, February 7th! We have several former SUPERBOWL Champions from the NFL joining us to “kick off” our Game Day Party at Eagle Glen Golf Course in Corona! Register soon as space will be limited! For more information visit our website at www.pcariverside.org/Superbowl.htm

To RSVP, please contact immediately at 951-686-5581 and asking for Tami Alexander, Event Coordinator for an interpreter request.

Please click here to see the Flyer:
Superbowl flyer

NAD: FCC Actions Block Consumer VRS Calls

2010 February 2
by Elvis Zornoza

The NAD learned that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has not paid Video Relay Service (VRS) providers for certain types of VRS calls since July 2009. As a result, some VRS providers are not connecting or may stop connecting some VRS calls. This is not functionally equivalent to the communication access that hearing telephone users enjoy. We urged the FCC to start a rulemaking process to promote transparency and ensure stakeholder input, before the FCC takes any action which may limit or restrict VRS calls.
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CODIE: Living Trust/ Will Seminar-TONIGHT 01/27!

2010 January 26
by Elvis Zornoza

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OC DEAF hosts 21st Annual Deaf Awareness Day at DISNEYLAND!

2010 January 26
by Elvis Zornoza


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CODIE: Living Trust/Will Seminar

2010 January 25
by Elvis Zornoza

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Haiti: Deaf & Blind Children Need Your Help

2010 January 25
by Elvis Zornoza

Dear Friends and Sponsors,
 
Thank you for your kind thoughts and prayers on behalf of the people of Haiti.  

We are the Friends of Montfort, Inc., a 501 (c)(3) organization.  We are a support group for the school, Institut Montfort in Haiti, which is run by the Daughters of Wisdom. Institut Montfort has over six hundred deaf and deaf/blind children in three locations in Haiti, the majority are in Port Au Prince.     We have begun our work to provide relief for the deaf and deaf/blind children of Institut Montfort who are in need because of the earthquake.
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RCC Freshman Deaf Basketball Player: Orion Palmer

2010 January 21
by Elvis Zornoza

RCC freshman basketball player Orion Palmer, who is Deaf,

is having no trouble fitting in with the Tigers

Orion Palmer onlooking at his interpreter, J. Miller in huddle

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06:04 PM PST on Monday, January 18, 2010

By KEVIN PEARSON
Special to The Press-Enterprise

RIVERSIDE – Standing on the sideline in front of Riverside Community College’s bench, men’s basketball coach John Smith lets his booming voice shout the play call toward his team bringing the ball up the court.
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