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Greetings to everyone.
This
is Teri-Lyn Calhoun of Heartland Deaf Center (HDC) in the Peoria, IL
area. If you really know me - you would know that I hate to beg from
anyone. Heartland Deaf Center has always strived to provide
services for any one that needs help without any charge. But with
the economy the way it is, I have no choice but to ask people to
help. For a long time I had been using my personal laptop to conduct
Heartland Deaf Center's business on it. I have already gone through
two laptops to keep up with me. The second one, unfortunately, had
died in April of 2009. The monitor just quit working. It's
impossible to be able to do any work without the laptop.
So I took the laptop to the store hoping that it could be repaired.
I know that Heartland Deaf Center could afford to purchase a backup
laptop to allow me to keep on helping anyone that needs the service
that HDC has to offer. So I went ahead and purchased a small Toshiba
model with my credit card so that I could work while waiting for an
estimate on that "dead" laptop.
To my dismay I learned that it would cost over $1000 to repair the
laptop. Even though it wasn't 2 years old yet, it wasn't a great
idea to repair it. This means that now I had to find a replacement
for that one and I eventually purchased a HP 17" screen laptop with
my credit card.
I just wanted to explain the scenario that I faced recently. Now we
have two working laptops - great for one to be used for web
designing, data base, etc. The other is to be used for
presentations, traveling, computer workshops and more. It helps me a
great deal to know that there is a "back up" system in case one of
the laptops should go bad.
Even if you wish only to donate $5.00, it would be greatly
appreciated. In the near future a new "Thank You"
web page will be created to show the list of peoples' names /
organizations/business' names as well. If a donation was received
from you and you wish NOT to be listed I will treat it as an
"anonymous" donor.
Here's the link to show all of what were purchased recently (mostly
on my credit card) and some things that we will eventually need to
have on hand.
Http://www.deaf-center.org/abouthdc/fund_raising.htm
Thank you for taking the time to read this e-mail. I certainly do
appreciate it. Contact me at
HDCTeri@deaf-center.org
if you have any questions.
Thank
you.
Teri-Lyn Calhoun
Heartland Deaf Center
Letter of
Thank You to the donors now available online. Thank you!
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