ECVI Connect
Let's take this journey together.
Personalized Skill Development and Social Connections for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Central Illinois
What's today's ECVI Connection?
Upcoming Events
May
Friendship Fridays
Book Club
Findley's Postponed
June
Campus Update
July
Dining in the Dark
From Peggy's Pen
You Matter: We Are a Bridge
We're here to be a bridge for you - to new knowledge, daily living skills, friendships and greater independence.
Friendship Friday, May 8th, 1pm
As the old scouting song goes, so does Friendship Friday!
Make new friends, but keep the old.
One is silver, the other is gold.
A circle is round, it has no end.
That's how long, I will be your friend.
A fire burns bright, it warms the heart.
We've been friends, from the very start.
You have one hand, I have the other.
Put them together, we have each other.
Silver is precious, gold is too.
I am precious, and so are you.
You help me and I'll help you
and together we will see it through.
Friendship Friday
Friday, May 8, 2020, 01:00 PM
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ECVI Virtual Book Club
Book Club Fridays
Our virtual version of Book Club started back up last Friday was a blast. We just wrapped The Rosie Project, which was a hoot!
We invite you to join us for our new book, Killers of the Flower Moon, on May 22nd.
Participants read the book in advance of the meeting, so RSVP below or call Peggy at 217-303-9062 and we'll give you the details.
More Information
Students suggest and agree on which books to read, so join us and add your voice to the mix. Books are provided by Talking Books and sent directly to your home.
Here are the Book Club titles for the rest of 2020. We hope you find at least one that sounds interesting and join us!
2020 Book Titles
June 19: Salt to the Sea
July 24: Walk in the Woods
Aug 21: Widow of the South
Sept 18: Walking Across Egypt
October 23: Blackfoot Messiah
November 20: Hidden Kennedy
December 11: Redbird Christmas
Book Club: Killers of the Flower Moon
Friday, May 22, 2020, 01:00 PM
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Postponed: Finley's Tap House Fundraiser
Campus Update
We'll keep you in the loop on potential class offerings, schedules, and re-opening procedures as we get closer to June 1st.
3rd Annual Dining in the Dark
You're invited!
Purchase Tickets, Volunteer or Sponsor the EventWHEN
Friday, July 17th, 6pm
6pm: Conversation and Cocktails
7pm: Dinner
8pm: Live Auction and Music
WHERE
Colombian Hall (Formerly KC Hall)
2200 Meadowbrook Road
Springfield, IL
RSVP by July 3, 2020
A Little Update
Book Club: Thanks to the students who attended Book Club last Friday as we finished The Rosie Project. It's a romantic comedy about a professor of genetics who lives a very organized and predictable life. He sets out to find a wife who doesn’t necessarily fit his model idea for a wife. The story is set in Melbourne Australia and in New York. The discussion was very interactive with everyone bringing up their favorite parts of the book. The discussion was so interesting and lively and and everyone shared what they were doing for exercise. It made me feel better just seeing everyone and knowing you all were safe.
Our next book is May 22nd. It's Killers of the Flower Moon. I hope you will join us.
Friendship Fridays: Book Club is one Friday a month, and so is Friendship Friday. We usually have a guest speaker and I am working to secure one for June. In the meantime, we'll have a Roll Call style check in with everyone and then spend a few minutes chatting and enjoying each other's company. Last session, Glen started us off with a couple of jokes that got everyone laughing. Right now we have 40 minutes together and we have so much fun, it turns out that is way too short! I'm looking into ways to expand our time.
Empowerment Podcasts: How do you read a screen if you don't have a screen reader? NVDA! In our May ECVI Connect, you'll be able to listen to Dan Thompson, our very own tech guru, who will guide you through installing NVDA on your computer. Dan is working on other wonderfully practical, informative, and truly empowering podcasts that you will see highlighted in upcoming newsletters and on our website. Thank you Dan!
Love,
Peggy
We Are a Bridge
The Bridge Builder
By Will Allen Dromgoogle
An old man going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening cold and gray,
To a chasm vast and deep and wide.
Through which was flowing a sullen tide
The old man crossed in the twilight dim,
The sullen stream had no fear for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side
And built a bridge to span the tide.
“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near,
“You are wasting your strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day,
You never again will pass this way;
You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide,
Why build this bridge at evening tide?”
The builder lifted his old gray head;
“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,
“There followed after me to-day
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been as naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him!”
With the closing of our campus and suspension of our regular program schedule, we ask you to join us in keeping our wonderful instructors and students connected. Our expenses continue and in some places increase as we migrate classes and enrichment gatherings to an online presence. Please help us continue our programs, especially in this critical time.
Educational Center for the Visually Impaired
for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Central Illinois
Email: ECVIconnect@edcentervi.org
Website: https://www.edcentervi.org
Location: 3240 Hedley Road, Suite C, Springfield, Illinois 62711
Phone: 217-303-9062
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EdCenterVI/
Twitter: @edcentervi