AUDIO VISION RADIO READING SERVICERADIO
READING SERVICE FOR THE BLIND, I.N.C
NEWSLETTER, OCTOBER, 2000
VOLUME XXXXI OCTOBER 4, 2000
COOL IT!
Well, summer appears to be over. After a long hot summer, it will be nice to get a little reprieve. For a while anyway, before we start complaining about how cold it is. We finished our 1999/2000 fiscal year in August. We are looking forward to the start of a new fiscal year. Hoping to raise much needed funds this year.
It has been a long time in happening, but the computers are installed and working. They are working beautifully. If Tim and I have been walking around in a daze for a while, that's because it is quite a complex system and we needed to work out how the new procedures were going to be worked out. With new progress comes new routines and such. We have got it down pretty good now.
The recordings sound very good. the automation is really a tremendous help in the afternoon. Also, our rebroadcast of the morning newspapers and our book hour in the evening is a nice enhancement to our daily schedule.
Yes. Hard to believe it is that time again. Last year we raised nearly $500.00 on our Sees Candy sales. Let's do it again this year. We really need the funds, and you know you really need the chocolate. Get orders from friends, relatives, colleagues, and anyone else you can think of. If you're involved in a service club, bring an order form there too. Thanks for all of your help in the pasts.
This year one pound boxes for $9.50. that's a savings of $2.20 if you were to purchase at the store. Specialty items, please add 20 percent. Make your checks out to AUDIO VISION. We will hold the checks until we place the order which will be around the first week of December. We will be taking orders through the second week of December for a possible second order. Let's get candy.
MORE PROBLEMS
As soon as we got the computers running, we started having problems with the control board in Studio B. That control board is 16 years old. WE bought an old board to swap parts with to bring it back to life. It didn't work, so we just swapped the board. This problem only affected the morning volunteers who record one hour programs or books. We have the problem resolved now, and it is great to be back on a regular recording schedule. the board we are using also has its problems. We can work through those problems right now. We will need to purchase a new control board soon. We hope within the next six months we will be able to do it.
If you have any friends who might be interested in reading on the air, let them know we are looking for volunteers. Our greatest need right now is having live volunteer readers for the newspaper readings. We need around seven people just to fill that demand. Right now I have some volunteers who are reading alone, or coming in a couple of times a week. So get those interested parties involved.
We would like to thank Envision America for underwriting our food news ( At The Supermarket With Louise) hour. They have paid for the underwriting of that program for three months. they are makers of i.d. mate and other products for the visually impaired. Their product i.d. mate is a portable tool using bar codes to identify items in the home or the workplace. With a portable bar code scanner, the user can scan an item and receive pertinent information about that product spoken to them. Visit their web site at www.envisionamerica.com, or link to them via our web site at www.audiovisionradio.org.
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