Hi Danny;
Keep up the good work.
All of us are very proud of you and your efforts.
73 De Anthony W2AJV
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From: "Danny Dyer" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: [BLIND-HAMS] Go Danny Go! Fw: BlindNews: NGTC,area employers
join celebration of Disability Employment AwarenessMonth (Features Danny
Dyer)
> Hi Richard, thanks for the forward, I'd not seen/heard the article til
> this
> morning, and knew nothing of the list you got it from until then as well.
> Thanks for both, and your friendship, Danny.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Scott" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:21 AM
> Subject: Go Danny Go! Fw: BlindNews: NGTC,area employers join celebration
> of
> Disability Employment AwarenessMonth (Features Danny Dyer)
>
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "BlindNews Mailing List" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 9:01 PM
>> Subject: BlindNews: NGTC,area employers join celebration of Disability
>> Employment AwarenessMonth (Features Danny Dyer)
>>
>>
>> > The Northeast Georgian, GA, USA
>> > Wednesday, October 11, 2006
>> >
>> > NGTC, area employers join celebration of Disability Employment
>> > Awareness
>> > Month (Features Danny Dyer)
>> >
>> > By Kimberly Brown
>> >
>> > Caption: Danny Dyer speaks at Friday's fifth-annual ADA Awareness Lunch
>> > and Learn while David Turner interprets using sign language. Also at
>> > the
>> > table are Jessie Dyer, Lou Ellen McMillan, vocational rehabilitation
>> > counselor, Seth Dyer and interpreter Mandy Stone. Staff/Kimberly Brown
>> >
>> > On Friday, employers and Georgia Department of Labor (DOL) employees
>> > honored local businesses that hire people with disabilities.
>> >
>> > The group gathered at North Georgia Technical College for the
> fifth-annual
>> > "ADA [Americans with Disabilities Act] Awareness" Lunch and Learn. The
>> > lunch was sponsored by the DOL Cleveland, Cumming and Gainesville
>> > Rehabilitation Services, Blairsville, Habersham and Toccoa Career
> Centers,
>> > and the Georgia Mountain Workforce Investment Board from Gainesville.
>> >
>> > October has been designated as "National Disability Employment
>> > Awareness
>> > Month," and the Georgia DOL presented awards to three area employers
>> > who
>> > make a difference by hiring employees with disabilities.
>> >
>> > Receiving awards this year were Unicoi State Park & Lodge; Peggy
>> > Barber,
>> > personnel director of Wal-Mart in Clayton; and Karen Janssen, manager
>> > of
>> > Wal-Mart in Toccoa.
>> >
>> > "This group of people brings to the table a different talent and
> resource
>> > for those who are trying to improve their lives," said Dr. Ruth
>> > Nichols,
>> > president of NGTC, to the DOL employees and the employers represented
>> > at
>> > the lunch,
>> >
>> > "Each of us has something that challenges us in our lives," she said.
>> > "Those of you who assist people who have barriers they bump up against
>> > every day, I commend you."
>> >
>> > Keynote speaker was Danny Dyer, a Toccoa Wal-Mart employee who has been
>> > blind since birth. Dyer previously worked in Christian broadcasting in
>> > Toccoa.
>> >
>> > "If it's an honest, moral job, it's a job that's worth doing and doing
>> > well," Dyer said, in a straightforward, witty and touching speech.
>> >
>> > When hiring, employers should look beyond a resumé, he said.
> Conventional
>> > wisdom is for employees to go with a job they've always done, but
>> > that's
>> > not always the best thing to do. Likewise, employers look at a person's
>> > resumé, but he may be "burned out on what he's been doing for 30
>> > years."
>> >
>> > Dyer said his heroes are Karen Janssen, his son, Seth, who also works
>> > at
>> > Wal-Mart in Toccoa, and his wife, Jessie Dyer.
>> >
>> > "[Janssen] has attempted to give people a chance, to match people to
> what
>> > they can do," Dyer said. "There's a person to match the job you have,
>> > if
>> > you give them a chance."
>> >
>> > Larry Shedd, rehabilitation unit manager at the DOL in Cleveland, said,
>> > "We're here to give hope to those who didn't have any in the vocational
>> > sense. We're here to help them get out and go to work."
>> >
>> > In presenting the awards, Shedd said Wal-Mart in Toccoa has more than
> 340
>> > employees, and they have hired "28 or so people with disabilities."
>> >
>> > "If we could get all employers to commit to that level, just think of
> all
>> > the people we could put in jobs," he said.
>> >
>> > [log in to unmask]
>> >
>> >
>> >
> http://www.thenortheastgeorgian.com/articles/2006/10/11/news/business/01business.txt
>> >
>> >
>>
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