[Cagdu] FW: USA: Guide dogs enjoy new outdoor space built just for them

tina thomas tinadt at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jul 24 19:34:33 PDT 2007 

: [K9Scoop] USA: Guide dogs enjoy new outdoor space built just for them

 

Pittsburgh, PA: 

Guide dogs enjoy new outdoor space built just for them

Tuesday, July 24, 2007
By Linda Wilson Fuoco, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Three tail-wagging Labrador retrievers sniffed the
grass, gravel and shrubs in a new doggie park
specially designed for guide dogs that need a place to
do what dogs gotta do.

Robin Rombach, Post-Gazette
Ann Nicholson, of Mt. Lebanon, gets a paw shake from
her guide dog, Heaven, during the dedication of the
new doggie park at the Blind & Vision Rehabilitation
Services of Pittsburgh office in Homestead yesterday.
Click photo for larger image.

Elaine, Heaven and Dylan are guide dogs for employees
at the Blind & Vision Rehabilitation Services of
Pittsburgh. Yesterday, they were the first dogs to
use the park, which was designed and built last week
by six United Way Day of Caring volunteers.

Three yellow and four black Labs regularly accompany
their owners to work at Blind & Vision Rehabilitation
Services, 1800 West St., Homestead. Some of the
clients who get training and services at the center
also have guide dogs and bring them to the facility.

Guide dogs used to have to take their breaks in a
hilly patch of grass by the front entrance of the
building. But navigating that terrain was especially
difficult for some of the vision-impaired dog owners
who also have balance problems.

Employees at Eaton Electrical Inc., headquartered in
Moon, wanted to do a United Way project for the agency
that serves blind and vision-impaired people.
Jennifer Ploskina, Eaton's Day of Caring coordinator,
met with agency employees and settled on a dog park.

"I asked them to level off a patch of grass and this
is what they came up with," said Carole Nadzam,
administrative assistant and United Way campaign
manager
at the vision center. Volunteers leveled the hill and
provided grass and gravel "to give the dogs a choice.
Dogs tend to have their preferences," Ms. Nadzam
said.

Volunteers also built a stone retaining wall and
planted shrubs. Those touches were added when Ms.
Ploskina enlisted the help of her father, Pete
Blackwood,
a landscape architect. Also, Alan Dambach of Lake
Forest Gardens in Fombell donated landscaping
materials. Dave Frisch, maintenance supervisor at the
vision
center, donated his efforts as well, coming in to work
on a day off.

Guide dog owners are to clean up after their dogs and
deposit droppings in a garbage can that has a sign
reading: "This Can Is My Business."

The dogs enjoyed checking out their new park.

Dylan, an 8-year-old yellow Lab who partners with
Louise Chuha of Braddock, who is a communications
instructor at the agency, also enjoyed eyeing-up the
bone-shaped sugar cookies that surrounded the punch
bowl put out for the dedication party. Dylan wasn't
allowed to eat those, but he and the other dogs
were given party bowls filled with healthy dog snacks.

Heaven, 6, a yellow Lab, works with Ann Nicholson of
Mt. Lebanon, who teaches cooking. Heaven, who sits
under the counter while her owner works there, learned
a skill not taught at the Guiding Eyes training
facility.

"She will pick up items that have dropped on the floor
and bring them to me," Ms. Nicholson said.

Elaine, 2, a black Lab, works with Heidi Pierce of
Liberty, who teaches household arts.

"Elaine is my first guide dog. She gives me more
independence than I have ever had," Ms. Pierce said.

(Linda Wilson Fuoco can be reached at
lfuoco at post- <mailto:lfuoco%40post-gazette.com> gazette.com
or 412-263-3064. )

Copyright C PG Publishing Co., Inc. All Rights
Reserved.
http://www.post- <http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07205/803876-338.stm>
gazette.com/pg/07205/803876-338.stm

__________________________________________________________
Luggage? GPS? Comic books? 
Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search
http://search.
<http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz>
yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz

__._,_.___ 

Messages
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K9Scoop/message/677;_ylc=X3oDMTMyOWoxcmczBF9T
Azk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzcwNzQyNTIEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA3NTA1MjQ3BG1zZ0lkAzY3NwRzZWMD
ZnRyBHNsawN2dHBjBHN0aW1lAzExODUzMDE4OTAEdHBjSWQDNjc3>  in this topic (1)
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K9Scoop/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJvdHJlZ2UzBF9TAzk3MzU
5NzE0BGdycElkAzcwNzQyNTIEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA3NTA1MjQ3BG1zZ0lkAzY3NwRzZWMDZnRyBHN
sawNycGx5BHN0aW1lAzExODUzMDE4OTA-?act=reply&messageNum=677> Reply (via web
post) | Start
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K9Scoop/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJldXA2YnQ5BF9TAzk3MzU
5NzE0BGdycElkAzcwNzQyNTIEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA3NTA1MjQ3BHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA250cGMEc3R
pbWUDMTE4NTMwMTg5MA-->  a new topic 

Messages
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K9Scoop/messages;_ylc=X3oDMTJlcXZvc3FhBF9TAzk
3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzcwNzQyNTIEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA3NTA1MjQ3BHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA21zZ3M
Ec3RpbWUDMTE4NTMwMTg5MA-->  

 
<http://groups.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTJkODkwZ2kzBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzcwN
zQyNTIEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA3NTA1MjQ3BHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA2dmcARzdGltZQMxMTg1MzAxODkw>
Yahoo! Groups
Change
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K9Scoop/join;_ylc=X3oDMTJmcGY2Z3QwBF9TAzk3MzU
5NzE0BGdycElkAzcwNzQyNTIEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA3NTA1MjQ3BHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA3N0bmdzBHN
0aW1lAzExODUzMDE4OTA->  settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) 
Change settings via email: Switch
<mailto:K9Scoop-digest at yahoogroups.com?subject=Email%20Delivery:%20Digest>
delivery to Daily Digest | Switch
<mailto:K9Scoop-traditional at yahoogroups.com?subject=Change%20Delivery%20Form
at:%20Traditional>  format to Traditional 
Visit
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K9Scoop;_ylc=X3oDMTJkYTVlazljBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0
BGdycElkAzcwNzQyNTIEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA3NTA1MjQ3BHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA2hwZgRzdGltZQMx
MTg1MzAxODkw>  Your Group | Yahoo! Groups
<http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>  Terms of Use | Unsubscribe
<mailto:K9Scoop-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com?subject=>  

Recent Activity

*                                1

New
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K9Scoop/members;_ylc=X3oDMTJmMzdqN2txBF9TAzk3
MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzcwNzQyNTIEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA3NTA1MjQ3BHNlYwN2dGwEc2xrA3ZtYnJz
BHN0aW1lAzExODUzMDE4OTA->  Members

Visit
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K9Scoop;_ylc=X3oDMTJlcmoydDBrBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0
BGdycElkAzcwNzQyNTIEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA3NTA1MjQ3BHNlYwN2dGwEc2xrA3ZnaHAEc3RpbWUD
MTE4NTMwMTg5MA-->  Your Group 

SPONSORED LINKS

*	Dog
<http://groups.yahoo.com/gads;_ylc=X3oDMTJjMWhqdWF2BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BF9wAzEEZ
3JwSWQDNzA3NDI1MgRncnBzcElkAzE3MDc1MDUyNDcEc2VjA3NsbW9kBHN0aW1lAzExODUzMDE4O
TE-?t=ms&k=Dog+handler&w1=Dog+handler&w2=Dog+school&w3=Dog+trainer+school&w4
=Dog+world&w5=Dog+world+magazine&c=5&s=96&g=2&.sig=c526dNElZPSnhWKrndcBmQ>
handler
*	Dog
<http://groups.yahoo.com/gads;_ylc=X3oDMTJjam9lbWhpBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BF9wAzIEZ
3JwSWQDNzA3NDI1MgRncnBzcElkAzE3MDc1MDUyNDcEc2VjA3NsbW9kBHN0aW1lAzExODUzMDE4O
TE-?t=ms&k=Dog+school&w1=Dog+handler&w2=Dog+school&w3=Dog+trainer+school&w4=
Dog+world&w5=Dog+world+magazine&c=5&s=96&g=2&.sig=CXYkf5VHe5WnJB8T11QHkw>
school
*	Dog
<http://groups.yahoo.com/gads;_ylc=X3oDMTJjaWdkZTFyBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BF9wAzMEZ
3JwSWQDNzA3NDI1MgRncnBzcElkAzE3MDc1MDUyNDcEc2VjA3NsbW9kBHN0aW1lAzExODUzMDE4O
TE-?t=ms&k=Dog+trainer+school&w1=Dog+handler&w2=Dog+school&w3=Dog+trainer+sc
hool&w4=Dog+world&w5=Dog+world+magazine&c=5&s=96&g=2&.sig=Be7i2rqQrCO1j56R0N
tUzQ>  trainer school
*	Dog
<http://groups.yahoo.com/gads;_ylc=X3oDMTJjam41MDJsBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BF9wAzQEZ
3JwSWQDNzA3NDI1MgRncnBzcElkAzE3MDc1MDUyNDcEc2VjA3NsbW9kBHN0aW1lAzExODUzMDE4O
TE-?t=ms&k=Dog+world&w1=Dog+handler&w2=Dog+school&w3=Dog+trainer+school&w4=D
og+world&w5=Dog+world+magazine&c=5&s=96&g=2&.sig=w85MrWW2PD6oTTSH6v46gg>
world
*	Dog
<http://groups.yahoo.com/gads;_ylc=X3oDMTJjdWkwODdoBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BF9wAzUEZ
3JwSWQDNzA3NDI1MgRncnBzcElkAzE3MDc1MDUyNDcEc2VjA3NsbW9kBHN0aW1lAzExODUzMDE4O
TE-?t=ms&k=Dog+world+magazine&w1=Dog+handler&w2=Dog+school&w3=Dog+trainer+sc
hool&w4=Dog+world&w5=Dog+world+magazine&c=5&s=96&g=2&.sig=RxWrd1r9d3shnSvTpS
rm9Q>  world magazine

Yahoo! TV

Staying
<http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12jjm2ese/M=493064.10729663.11333354.8674578/D=
groups/S=1707505247:NC/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1185309091/A=3848443/R=0/SIG=10sq6u3c2/*h
ttp:/tv.yahoo.com/picks/>  in tonight?

Check Daily Picks &

see what to watch.

Moderator Central

An
<http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12jo9l4dd/M=493064.10729651.11333342.8674578/D=
groups/S=1707505247:NC/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1185309091/A=4699083/R=0/SIG=115gt68pf/*h
ttp:/moderators.groups.yahoo.com/>  online resource

for moderators

of Yahoo! Groups.

HDTV Support

The
<http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12jdkjvqq/M=493064.10972170.11554072.8674578/D=
groups/S=1707505247:NC/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1185309091/A=4706132/R=0/SIG=11f8fj6tf/*h
ttp:/tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/samsunghd/>  official Samsung

Y! Group for HDTVs

and devices.

.

 
<http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=7074252/grpspId=1707505247/msgId
=677/stime=1185301890/nc1=3848443/nc2=4699083/nc3=4706132> 
__,_._,___ 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://nfbcal.org/pipermail/cagdu/attachments/20070724/96537f6b/attachment.html

More information about the Cagdu mailing list