DeafDigest - 06 March 2019

DeafDigest Mid-Week edition - March 6, 2019 -- explaining how it is to be deaf in hearing world Jovita, 14-year old British deaf girl (last name not known), is one of the finalists in the BC Young Reporter Competition. Her story, as a deaf girl from a deaf family, dealing with the hearing in the real world, beat out 1,500 competing entries!   -- not yet Halloween, but a horror movie A new horror movie coming up is - Soul To Keep. It features a deaf actress - Sandra Mae Frank, who previously acted on stage in Broadway. More details are coming up soon about that film.     -- non-deaf person helping the deaf Ask any older deaf person who was John Skakandy, and the chances are that no one has heard of him. The DeafDigest editor served TDI, Inc as the CEO during the early eighties and made many contacts among hearing people in the computer, captions and TTY fields. Skakandy just passed away, and the obit said he helped set up a computer-based TTY system during the early eighties. Obviously no one in the Deaf Community also heard of him.     Deaf jobs - latest update http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/ 03/03/19 Blue and Gold editions & sub options at: http://deafdigest.com/newsletters/

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