ADAPT had a beautiful
Valentines Day. We prepared 5 large handmade lovely
valentines to deliver
to 5 very influencial people.
We prepared one for
our new Governor Rod Blagojevich, one for our new
Attourney General
Lisa Madigan, one for the Speaker of the House, one for
the President of the
Senate, and finally one for the new Secretary of the
Department of Human
Services. Since the state capital is in Springfield we
did not expect to
necessarily give it to them in person but they all have
staff here in Chicago.
We had 25 people show
up including an active seniors group represntative.
We started at the
Governor office, security was an issue so our mob waited
outside while they
went to get the senior official in the office. We had
written on the back
of the Valentine:
Dear Governor Blagojevich,
HAVE A HEART. OUR VALENTINES SUPPORT HOME AND
COMMUNITY SERVICES
and HELP SENIORS AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES STAY OUT OF
NURSING HOMES. WILL
YOU BE OUR VALENTINE? CHICAGO ADAPT. We had 3
speakers, a person
who uses personal assistant services, a senior and a
person who had gotten
out of the nursing homes through the re-integration or
Deinstitutionalization
program. The recipients were gracious, many were
also new and were
getting our message for the first time.
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