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9) Jill Storey has published a new childrens' book, featured in the Hull Daily News, November 2006
5) Katie Reay & Chris Payne both took part in The Blind Drive Challenge, in June 2006
Katie Reay successfully completed a Blind Driving Challenge, on June 11th 2006, driving a car at the incredible speed of 70 miles per hour! despite being totally blind. She also raised £395 for the Guide Dogs for the Blind association through this event.
TAFN Member & Volunteer Chris Payne also took part in the Blind Driving Challenge and reached the amazing speed of 84mph! Here's a picture of Chris.
The Blind Drive Challenge was a major event which raised over £17,000 for Guide Dogs. Here is a group photo showing most of the participants, with their guide dogs, cars, organizers and trainers.
Thanks to Michael Payne for these last 2 photos. Click here to visit the Guide Dogs website
Read "Blind, but with the world at his fingertips", the article.
UPDATE: Jim was also interviewed on VIPonair.com Radio in Scotland on January 18th 2007. Click here to listen to a recording of the VIPonair interview
Click here to read the article featuring Ian, entitled "Mayor's Blind Date", published by "This is South Devon" on 30th September 2006.
TAFN member Lillian Stubbs was the star of an online video in The Bolton News, published on 12th October 2006, along with her guide dog Nadia. Following the link below there is a description of the video clip.
Watch and/or listen the Video (Opens in new browser window, requires Windows Media Player)
"The video runs simultaneously with the spoken narrative. Firstly it shows the Guide Dogs service at Bolton Parish Church, where several labradors are seen looking out from the pews! It then cuts to a scene of our Lillian with guide dog Nadia walking along the road. They go indoors where Lillian is sitting down with Nadia, giving her a good pat and making a fuss of her (Nadia is shown with various toys in her mouth!). Then the scene cuts to outside again & shows the pair walking along, crossing a road and successfully navigating between cars parked half-on-the-pavement one side, and overgrown hedges the other. Next the pair go into a chippie! On the way back Nadia handles road crossing superbly, sitting down patiently while vehicles go past before crossing safely. Then Lastly at the end of the scene the pair are back home and this time Nadia is making a fuss of Lillian, with a classic lick-attack." (description by Leon Gilbert)Item 9: TAFN member Jill Storey has had a debut childrens' book published!
The above image shows a picture of the cover of Jill Storey's brand new children's book "The Adventures of Honkey and Tonkey" which has been published at Authorhouse. We wish Jill every success in her childrens' writing and are grateful for all the work she's done as a TAFN volunteer too!
Find out more about Jill's new book, which is available online via the AuthorHouse web site.
(A word from the TAFN Webmaster) There's so much happening within TAFN nowadays that's it's a constant challenge keeping the website up to date with it all. We're always adding new stuff, so please do come back and do remember to hit refresh! Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the site so far. Friends this is OUR space, and you're welcome to have anything you want put on here, just email it over anytime. We especially welcome audio clips, technical tips, game reviews, written pieces, jokes, or even pictures. Anything you think that other v i p's & website visitors may like! Thanks again to all the contributors so far, it's you doing your bit that's made this little website of ours the great place that it is. Click here to email Leon, I look forward to talking with you online!
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