Congrats to people who sworn in to be Greater Pittsburgh Community Center for the Deaf officers!
President: Jesse Barkey
Vice President: Mary Jean Shaheen
Secretary: Holly Mendel
Treasurer: Tonya Strait
Treasurer Assistant: James C. Noschese
Board of Directors: Lori Ann LaSorsa, Casey Weyant and Jenna Barkey
Athletic Director: Kenneth Peters
Visit GPCCD page for the information.
Jeff Thomas
President
Tim Taylor
1st Vice President
Vacant
2nd Vice President
Lenny Visco
3rd Vice President
Holly Mendel
Secretary
Jeff Janaszek
Treasurer
padtreasurer1854@gmail.com
Marty Weber
Assistant Treasurer
Tonya Strait
Membership Secretary
padmembership1929@gmail.com
Samantha Taylor
Trustee
Janice Gwizdak
Trustee
James Noschese
Trustee
Jeff Thomas
Club Manager
Circulation: Jeff Janaszek: contact@pghdeafclub.org
Co-Editor and Co-Publisher: Jeff Janaszek and Lori Ann LaSorsa – Abshier lalasorsa@gmail.com
Web Maintenance: David P. Fulmer
Thomas DeFazio
President
Padpres1854@gmail.com
Tim Taylor
1st Vice President
Jeff Thomas
2nd Vice President
Gloria Biega
3rd Vice President
Holly Mendel
Secretary
Jeff Janaszek
Treasurer
padtreasurer1854@gmail.com
Marty Weber
Assistant Treasurer
Tonya Strait
Membership Secretary
padmembership1929@gmail.com
Samantha Taylor
Trustee
Janice Gwizdak
Trustee
James Noschese
Trustee
Carrey Gamble
Club Manager
Circulation: Jeff Janaszek: contact@pghdeafclub.org
Co-Editor and Co-Publisher: Jeff Janaszek and Lori Ann LaSorsa – Abshier lalasorsa@gmail.com
Web Maintenance: David P. Fulmer
Photos by Rosemarie Stull. December 4, 2022.
PAD Senior Citizen hosted Lunch Bingo on Saturday, November 12, 2022 at Pittsburgh Association of the Deaf clubhouse. All of the photos taken by Donald D’Angelo.
This video was recorded by Donald D’Angelo on Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at Buffalo Inn, South Park.
This photo was shot by Donald D’Angelo on Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at Buffalo Inn, South Park.
This photo was shot by Donald D’Angelo on Saturday, August 27, 2022 at deaf clubhouse.
Door Opens – 6:00pm
Dinner Served – 7:00pm
Show starts – 8:00pm
Where? 1854 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Tickets: $20 donation only online through Eventbrite before – Deadline January 17th! $25 donation at the door.
Hosted by Zion Harper. Contact me for info: zionharper18@gmail.com
We have informed that 10th Biennial Holiday Party is cancelled due to low attendance. It was announced back in October 2021, and late post today. From chairperson Mark Babich:
My name is Mark Babich, Chairperson for Holiday Party for November 13th 2021. Maybe you hear or not from us, anyway last October 9th our committees had meeting to discuss to canceled because of due to poor attendances around 55 people, our goal was 200 or more, but we failed.
We understand you all want stay home safe from Covid. Yes it is fine. Anyway hotel will closed our account for reservation, it up to you to call and remove your name. The refunds will be sending out within week or 2 with a letter back to you. Yes stay home be safe.
Next year Frederick, Maryland will host tentative holiday party. Thanks for watching Good night
Just reminder that 10th Biennial Holiday Party is CANCELLED coming Saturday!!
We will reopen on April 10th, and 24th. 7 pm to 11 pm as following lcb regulations. All CDC rules still applies to our reopening. Our club manager has resigned so we are searching for replacement who can take her place for remaining of year (today to December 31, 2021).
Please contact me, or our executive board to nominate or interests ASAP. As of today, March 13, we only received 85 member out of 250. It’s bad news!!! Membership due is on March 31! It’s this month!!! Please show your support by paying your membership due! New member are welcome, send in your name and we will take care of application later.
Our first active meeting will be in May 8th. There will be election night also! We have some ideas for pad over the summer time with brewing beer offering. We really need youth group to join. I want to see pad to have strong membership to keep club open. Please consider.
See you all soon!
Dear DeafBlind, SSP’s, Allies, Family, and Friends,
IT IS URGENT, and WE NEED YOUR HELP NOW!!!
HB 2938 is at the House Appropriation Committee. As of right now, they are
not in session because of the November 3rd Elections. They are in their
offices. Once the November 3rd Election is done, they will be back in session
voting. WE NEED FOR YOU TO CONTACT the people on the appropriation committee
NOW. We can not wait until after the November 3rd elections. WE NEED ACT NOW to
call their offices, VP, or send a fax. WE NEED TO LET THEM KNOW WE ARE
SERIOUS!!! The more people we can get, the better that they will take us
seriously!!!
The House Appropriations Committee, the link is below: when you click on the
link, there is a list of names on your left side who are the members on the
committee:
https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/cteeInfo/Index.cfm?Code=4&CteeBody=H
We need to take action now. If we don’t do this, we WILL NOT HAVE ANY SPP
SERVICES!!! Please take a few minutes to call a few of them. If you need help
with what to say, we have a script for you to read to them: Please contact
Christina, iwanttoseepadb@gmail.com, if you need help.
This is the script below for calling your Representative via
phone, VP, or Zoom. It has to be short and straightforward.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hi Representative.
I need to talk with you for 5 minutes?
My name is ———-. I am Deafblind /, or I have Usher Syndrome.
I use a Support Service Provider (SSP) to help me with various tasks out into
the community.
There is HOUSE BILL 2938 that I want you to co-sponsor with Rep. Miller. It is
significant for all of the DeafBlind people to have SSP.
SSP is an essential worker, not a caretaker.
SSP Program will stop on December 31, 2020.
If you co-sponsor HB 2938, the SSP Program will continue once HB passes.
Thank you so much for your time.
Your name
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I know this is exhausting, but we need to keep at them until we get what we need. WE WILL NOT GIVE UP!!! We must show them that we are serious.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to email us at iwanttoseepadb@gmail.com.
WE CAN DO THIS!!!! Together with working as a team AS ONE!!!
Let’s make this happen!!!
Sincerely,
I WANT TO SEE
Heather Schoenwald, PA DB Leader
Christina Derhammer, SSP
Gerald Penna, PSAD President
Laura Shipley, SSP
Once again another blessing day with GPCCD Kids Events. Truly cherish theses moments. The fun, smiles, and happiness we see from these kiddos is priceless. Thank you all that came and supported this holiday season. Thank you to all the volunteers. Hats off to each and everyone of you. We appreciate you. See you all next year and Happy holidays!!!🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻
Merry Christmas! At least 64 deaf and CODA children had good time for the entertainment and foods. 175 pictures are available for your enjoyment to view our Flickr gallery set.
Did you know that you can download the photo from Flickr site that you can keep the photo images in your computer?
Download PADette Volume 79, Issue 4 newsletter with 12 page PDF format for you to read electronic document and save the trees!