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Please take a moment to register
when you arrive at the walk. Or
you can register online at
www.pugetsoundbuddywalk.com.
If you register online by Septem-
ber 13, we’ll guarantee your t-
shirt size. Buddy Walk t-shirts are
$5 each, free for members with
Down syndrome.
Funds raised at the Puget Sound
Buddy Walk support the advo-
cacy, educational, and social activi-
ties of the Down Syndrome Com-
munity, and the national programs
of the Nation Down Syndrome
Society.
The Buddy Walk was developed by the
NDSS in 1995 to celebrate Down
Syndrome Awareness Month in Octo-
ber and to promote acceptance and
inclusion of people with Down syn-
drome.
Contact: Lynne Palmisano,
buddywalk@downsyndrome
community.org or 425-681-2957
www.pugetsoundbuddywalk.com
www.buddywalk.org
www.downsyndromecommunity.org
October, Down Syndrome
Awareness Month, is right around
the corner, and its arrival means
the Down Syndrome Commu-
nity’s Puget Sound Buddy Walk is
upon us. Slated for Sunday, Octo-
ber 3rd from 1:00-4:00PM at the
Seattle Center. It won’t be at the
same location this year. The new
location is called Center Square
and it’s near the Space Needle.
The walk itself is a short one-mile
walk around the Seattle Center
grounds. But the event is much
more, with guest speakers, enter-
tainment, kids’ activities, re-
sources, artists, networking, a
little food, and a big raffle.
Plans are still coming together for
the walk. What we know as this
issue goes to press: Our self-
advocate speaker this year is Eric
Matthes from the ARC of King
County. Keith Black from KCIS
radio will be back to emcee.
We will have many resource
booths, including Special Olym-
pics, Outdoors for All, Young Life,
Reeces' Rainbow, the ARC of King
County, the ARC of Snohomish
County and more. Artist’s booths
will be featured again this year,
including Lupita Cano and Dyan
Kuehl among others. The DSC
Sharing Library will be available for
receiving and sharing books and
other media.
The Boeing Klown Klub will pay a
visit, and VSA Arts will be running
our arts and crafts section. Our
famous fishing pond feature re-
turns, where kids can catch some
fun free prizes.
We’ll have a pre-walk band and a
post-walk band. After the walk,
we’ll have refreshments available
for a $3 donation.
Raffle tickets will be on sale at the
walk. In fact, they’re available right
now for purchase—and for selling
on behalf of the Buddy Walk. See
the enclosed flyer for more info,
or find the flyer on our website.
14th Annual Puget Sound Buddy Walk October 3rd
Down Syndrome Community
September 2010
DSC Newsletter Our Goals:
Build a caring, under-
standing, supportive
community open to all
individuals and families
whose lives include a
person with Down
syndrome.
Share and nurture a
climate where every
human being is recog-
nized, their strengths
appreciated, and their
accomplishments re-
spected and valued.
Strengthen the net-
work of individuals
and groups working
with issues affecting
the lives of those with
developmental dis-
abilities and their
families.
Inside this issue:
From the President 2
Entertainment
Books for Sale
2
Spreading the
Word
2
Megarama Day 3
Exciting Fundraising
Opportunity
3
Upcoming Events 4
The DSC is proud to offer members & friends an exciting new fundraising opportunity for
the Buddy Walk!
To learn more, see page 3.
We want both the Puget Sound
Buddy Walk and our organization
to become a little better every
year, and your participation is a
key ingredient in our success.
This year we’re trying a couple
experiments to save money and to
raise money. One is our member-
ship drive Eco-envelope mailer,
which saved us money over our
traditional August mailer. Another
experiment is asking people to
help us collect donations for the
Buddy Walk. I’m excited about
this. I have family and friends who
will contribute for the first time,
because this style of fundraising
makes it easy for them.
We decided to continue the tradi-
tional Buddy Walk Raffle, and we
managed to land some super
prizes this year in spite of the
economy. As always, we’re hungry
for ticket sellers.
No matter how you are able to
give back to the DSC, I hope you
take advantage of the Buddy Walk
this year. It’s a perfect way to
spend three hours on an October
Sunday. The energy and positivity,
the potential connections, the fun,
all make it worth your while. It is
an empowering event.
Special thanks to the Buddy Walk
Committee for their hard work
keeping the Puget Sound Buddy
Walk alive and relevant.
See you at the Buddy Walk!
—Sean King
From the President
Page 2 DSC Newsletter
Entertainment Books Entertainment books will be available at the Puget Sound Buddy Walk.
You can also place orders via the Entertainment website, which allows
you to buy Entertainment books for cities all over the country. To
order online, go to our website and click on the Entertainment logo
or go to www.entertainment.com/discount/?groupID=911586
Thank you for choosing us as your Entertainment book source.
The Down Syndrome Community
is selling 2011 Seattle/Eastside
Entertainment books again this
year for the discounted rate of
$25 each.
If you would like to buy some (or
sell them to benefit the DSC),
contact Lynne Palmisano:
lyntoy1@aol.com, 425-681-2957.
Please let us know if
you have something
you would like to share
with our readers in our
“Spreading the Word”
section.
Spreading the Word Down TV
Invest for Children, i4c, an inter-
national nonprofit organization
working to build a better life for
people with intellectual disabili-
ties, especially Down syndrome,
has set up Down TV, a website
exclusively dedicated to videos
related to Trisomy 21. The site is
open to all kinds of audiences and
you can upload and share your
videos (both amateur and profes-
sional).
www.downtv.org
You can email Maria Vicente,
promoter of the website, at
mvicente@investforchildren.org
Forever Friends
“Forever Friends” is an inclusive
children’s television show pro-
duced by Creative Arts and Abili-
ties, starring Chris Burke. This
unique show features people with
and without disabilities both in
front of and behind the camera.
Individuals with disabilities will be
featured as talented, “abled” ac-
tors.
To view the pilot episode, go to
www.chrisburke.org/links
For more information, you can
contact John DeMasi at 609-581-
2651 or jmuso105@aol.com
Universal Design for
Learning
UDL provides a set of principles
and guidelines to ensure that all
students have equal opportunities
to learn while maintaining high
achievement standards. Curricu-
lum is designed to give educators
the strategies, tools and instruc-
tional materials they need to effec-
tively teach diverse learners, in-
cluding gifted students, English
language learners and students
with disabilities. UDL facilitates
inclusion and also benefits stu-
dents in special education classes.
Learn more at www.cast.org and
www.udlcenter.org
Megarama Day 2010 Page 3
Good news! The DSC’s Heidi Heier Memorial Sharing Library will be at the Puget Sound Buddy Walk this year.
If you have books, CDs, DVDs or other media related to living with Down syndrome sitting idle on your shelves, please bring them to the Buddy Walk. Drop them off at our table and share them with others. And browse
what others have brought to share with you.
Once you have a
FirstGiving page up
and running, it’s easy
to reach out to people
you know all over the
world.
FirstGiving and Donation Collection
There’s also a donation form you
can use to approach friends, family
and acquaintances personally. You
can find it on our website.
Asking DSC members and friends
to gather donations opens up new
opportunities for people to give.
As an incentive, we’re awarding a
valuable Brooks Running gift cer-
tificate to the individual or team
who raises the most money. See
the attached flyer for more infor-
mation, or go to our website.
If you have a desire to help us
grow, but don’t have the re-
sources to volunteer your time
and talents, here’s a simple way to
help, using e-mail, social network-
ing and good old face to face. To-
gether we can take the DSC to
new levels.
The Buddy Walk is our largest
fundraiser of the year, thanks to
the Buddy Walk Raffle and dona-
tions collected during the walk.
This year we’ve set up a new cam-
paign online through FirstGiving, a
nationally recognized and proven
method of online fundraising. To
start raising money, simply sign up
as an individual or fundraising team
at www.firstgiving.com/14286.
Over 200 cowpokes, young and old, journeyed to the M-Bar-C Ranch for the biggest Megarama Day ever!
Networking, acceptance, imagination. Fun, friends and smiles everywhere. Unforgettable.
17930 Normandy Terrace SW
Normandy Park, WA 98166
The Down Syndrome Community is
a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit
organization whose mission is to
improve the lives of individuals with
Down syndrome and their families
by focusing on education,
communication and advocacy. Our
service area includes the entire
Puget Sound region and Western
Washington. Our members include
a wide cross section of families and
professionals across the United
States.
You can find more information and
make a tax-deductible donation
through PayPal by visiting our
website at
www.downsyndromecommunity.org
Board Meetings
Board meetings are open to all members. Please let Sean know
you are coming: president@downsyndromecommunity.org,
425-228-3391.
September 7, 7-9pm, Pacific Market Center
November 2, 7-9pm, Pacific Market Center
January 4, 7-9pm, Pacific Market Center
Puget Sound Buddy Walk
October 3, 1-4pm, Seattle Center
buddywalk@downsyndromecommunity.org or 425-681-2957
Here it comes! We’re always looking for volunteers and spon-
sors. Let us know as soon as possible how you can help make
this our best Buddy Walk ever!
Camp Prime Time with the DSC
September 17-19, registration closed
Gift Wrap Day
December 12, Pacific Place Mall, Downtown Seattle
Holiday Party
December 18, Community Center at Mercer View,
Mercer Island
Sweetheart Dance
February19, 2011 Highland Community Center, Bellevue
World Down Syndrome Day
March 21, 2011
DSC Conference 2011
To be announced
Nick Kappes,
Finance Committee Chair
Lynne Palmisano,
Buddy Walk Chair
Dan Hartung
Sue Hartung
Jennifer Mullis,
Self Advocate
Scott Rutledge
Laurel Sturges
Upcoming Events
Board of Directors
Sean King, President president@downsyndrome
community.org
Louise Avery, Vice President,
Community Relations Liaison dsc_relations@comcast.net
Carla Snyder, Secretary
Curtis Thelin, Treasurer treasurer@downsyndrome
community.org
Anne Mullis, Recording Secretary,
Conference Committee Chair
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