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.
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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)
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> Subject: BlindNews: NGTC,area employers join celebration of Disability
> Employment AwarenessMonth (Features Danny Dyer)
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> > 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.
> >
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http://www.thenortheastgeorgian.com/articles/2006/10/11/news/business/01business.txt
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