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OLMSTED CENTER RICHARD CINACIOSI |
ABVI-Goodwill WALTER CHATMAN III |
CABVI SINAN SALKANOVIC |
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| Richard started at the Blind Association of Buffalo, now the Olmsted Center for Sight, in February of 1989. He was originally hired in the sewing department...read more | Walter has worked in ABVI-Goodwill’s Call Center since 2005, beginning with an outbound calling campaign doing surveys for the NYS Dept. of Labor...read more | “Reliable; studious; a great employee; a good friend,” These are words often used to describe Sinan Salkonovic. An accomplished carpenter in his native Bosnia, Sinan immigrated to the US...read more | ||||
NABA Charles Carter |
NABA CHUCK PETRASKE |
AVRE DEB HOLMES |
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| Charles Carter’s vision problems began in 2001 from complications related to Diabetes. Being married with four children at home, there has been no room...read more | Chuck Petraske is an active man. Whether it is with his dog Bill, or with his cane, Chuck gets on the bus every day and rides from Schenectady to Albany to come to work at...read more | Deborah Holmes began her AVRE career on September 16, 2002 as a switchboard operator at the Mid-Hudson Veterans Administration Regional Medical Center relocating from her home in NYC at the time she was hired....read more | ||||
STAVI STEVEN SEELEY |
NYCIB FRANCIS THOMAS |
NYCIB TED RIOS |
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| Steven worked in construction in the Boston area for 15 years. He was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a progressive degeneration of the retina, in 1988....read more | Francis Thomas was born inTrinidad in 1948 and grew up in an environment where expectations were high but support networks were nearly nonexistent....read more | Teodoro Rios, Ted to his friends and coworkers, was born in Brooklyn. Though born with a visual impairment, his parents did not shelter him, but rather encouraged him to excel....read more | ||||
VISIONS RAD MAZON |
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| Rad Mazon was a young man when he moved from his native Poland to the US in search of a treatment for his eye condition. During the summer of 2003 Rad applied...read more | ||||||
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