Calendar of Events
Our monthly meetings are usually held at Ramblin Jacks restaurant in
downtown Olympia and begin at twelve noon. Scroll down for a list of
meeting dates and any changes to their location or time.
Here are directions to Ramblin Jacks
restaurant.
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2008
- January 9
- Washington State School for the Blind Board of Trustees conference call
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- January 26
- CCCB chapter meeting with guest speaker Jean Gallo, head of the
Business Enterprises
Program for the Washington State Department of Services for the Blind.
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- February 1 & 2
- WCB Board of Directors winter meeting in Everett, WA
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- February 16, 17, & 18
- ACB Mid-year in Louisville, KY
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- February 23
- CCCB chapter meeting
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- March 1
- WCB deadline for articles for the
Newsline spring edition
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- March 14 & 15
- WAER conference in Tacoma, WA
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- March 15
- CCCB chapter meeting
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- March 29
- We are having a wine tasting hosted at Le Bon Vie, 423 Sleater-Kinney Road
SE starting at 2:00 p.m.
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- April 5
- Members of the CCCB will be greeting guests at the 2008
Lacey Sunrise Lions Pancake
Breakfast. The event will be at the North Thurston High School
Cafeteria from 7 a.m. until 11 a.m. The all you can eat menu includes
pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage links, biscuits and gravy, and assorted
drinks. Come early for the best selection. Tickets available at the door or
in advance.
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- April 12
- The CCCB Pizza Feed will be at Apollo’s Pizza & Pasta, 2010 Harrison Ave
NW, on Olympia's Westside at
2:00
p.m. This is our fifth annual pizza feed and it should be a great time.
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- April 19
- CCCB chapter meeting. Our speaker will be Matt Harnyak who will be
speaking about the 211 system which links callers with social-service
agencies, such as a shelter for battered women, food bank or mental-health
counselor.
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- April 25, 26 & 27
-
WCB
Board of Directors spring meeting and Leadership Training in Everett, WA
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- May 10
- Olympia Readers Book Club meets at 2:00 p.m. at the Colley's home. Our May book will be "The Nine Tailors", a classic mystery novel by Dorothy
L. Sayers, featuring her famous detective Lord Peter Wimsey. Available from the
WTBBL as RC18111.
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- May 17
- CCCB chapter meeting has been can cancelled due to our participation
in the following community events. Again this year, several chapter members will be working at the Lacey
Sunrise Lions booth during the
Lacey Spring Fun Fair. They will hand out
hundreds of CCCB flyers, WCB brochures and Braille alphabet card with
children's first names brailled on them. Also, the first of two
Olympia Host Lions low-vision fairs is scheduled for the
Olympia Community Center. The
fair will feature hands-on displays of low-vision resources as well as panels
and speakers. We are to make a fifteen minute presentation and Mike Cunningham
will be on a low vision panel at the close. Mike and Howard Ferguson will be
manning a table to hand out brochures and flyers.
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- May 31
- CCCB Bowling Event at 2:00 p.m. at the Westside Lanes in Olympia.
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- June 1
- WCB deadline for articles for the
Newsline
summer edition
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- June 13 & 14
- Washington State School for the Blind Board of Trustees meeting and
student graduation at the school in Vancouver, WA
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- June 21
- CCCB chapter meeting
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- July 5 through July 12
-
ACB National Convention
in Louisville, KY
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- July 19
- CCCB chapter meeting.
Sam Hunt, State Representative from the 22nd
district, will give us his views on the recent legislative session.
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- August 1 & 2
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WCB Board of Directors summer meeting and retreat in Vancouver, WA
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- August 23
- Our annual picnic will begin at noon on at LBA Park in southeast Olympia.
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- September 1
- WCB deadline for articles for the
Newsline fall edition
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- September 20
- CCCB chapter meeting
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- September 26 & 27
- Washington State School for the Blind Board of Trustees meeting at the
school in Vancouver, WA
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- October 18
- CCCB chapter meeting
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- October 23, 24 & 25
- WCB state convention in Vancouver, WA
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- November 15
- CCCB chapter meeting and election of officers
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- December 1
- WCB deadline for articles for the
Newsline winter edition
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- December, date to be determined
- CCCB annual winter party, location to be determined
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