DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, October 8, 2014
-- a continuing mess, big time, at Montesano, Washington
DeafDigest mentioned this past July that Marisa Salzer,
a deaf member of the Montesano, Washington council
has been denied an interpreter despite her repeated
requests. It has been so bad that an interpreting
agency backed out, refusing to do any more interpreting.
The city is stuck - they cannot proceed with council
meetings, and they are thinking of assistive listening
devices. Marisa told them these devices do not work,
but apparently the council does not understand deafness.
-- a successful deaf man started at the bottom
Marvin Hajdamacha, a young deaf man, graduated from
Model Secondary School for the Deaf but never went
to college. He started at the bottom, as a stocker
of merchandise with Hallmark Cards. He then went
to a trade school to learn to become an automobile
mechanic. He just won a big honor at the Mike Pile
BMW (Tyler, Texas) as the Employee of the Month,
despite being one of the newest employees! With
these high priced BMW cars, he does everything
that master mechanics do, even better!
See his picture at:
http://35.182.75.222/marvin-hajdamacha-master-bmw-mechanic/
-- deaf piloting a helicopter
Could a deaf person pilot a helicopter, which is
different from piloting a small airplane? DeafDigest
editor met a deaf man, who claimed to be a helicopter
pilot, but would not answer questions about it. Anyway
there was a recent story about a hearing man -
Harry Griffith, owner of Horizon Helicopters in
Delaware. He said one of his students was a deaf man,
who received a private helicopter certificate.
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