DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, October 22, 2013
-- just one certified interpreter near Seattle?
Washington state has about 350 certified interpreters.
There was a newspaper story that said there is only
one ASL interpreter on the Olympic Peninsula. It is
an area between Seattle and the Pacific Ocean. Is
the newspaper story accurate? DeafDigest has doubts!
-- a deaf football referee's big surprise
Roy Lopaty, who is deaf and has been refereeing football
for 32 years, recently refereed a high school game. At
the game halftime, he was surprised. A hearing referee
told him that one of the players was deaf. Did Roy throw
the penalty flag against the deaf player in the game? No.
Roy watches watches the players on defense, while the
deaf player played on offense.
-- a moviehouse closes in Kentucky to avoid captions!
The Chakeres Theatres is the oldest independent movie
chain in Ohio and Kentucky. It operates 6 theaters.
The theater in Frankfort, Kentucky will shut down
in January 2014 because the owners cannot afford the
expensive captioning equipment. They lost a lawsuit
and was fined $5,000 by the Kentucky Human Rights
Commission. So, for us, the deaf, we win and we lose!
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