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	WRAD BIKE DAY- SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6, 2005 SANTA MONICA TO REDONDO BEACH AND BACK WRAD is happy to present a 32-mile round trip bike day along the beach from Santa Monica to Redondo Beach round trip !!!!!! All day Sunday Nov. 6th, 2005, 10am to 4pm. The bicycle path along 16 miles from Santa Monica to Redondo Beach takes you through some of the most colorful beach towns anywhere. We will stop for lunch at the Redondo Beach pier around noon. Food there is fabulous and affordable. You may shop, eat, rest, and entertain other friends at the pier. Everyone is welcome. This is going to be a fun day to meet new and old friends. Also, it is a very good exercise for your body and strengthen your muscle legs to have 32 miles round trip on the bicycle. You will have a good night sleep after you are exhausted from riding all day. This is a fun ride for everyone. We are not racing against Lance Armstrong. *Meet us at the Santa Monica Pier parking lot betweeen 9:30am and 9:45am prior to our departure at 10:00am SHARP!!!!!! (The event will be cancelled if rain)* Click here to get a map and directions. If you don't have a bike , you can rent them near the pier. Come early to get good bikes at the rental shop. Parking fee is $7.00 for the day. The weather for this time of the year would be cool and breezy so you may want to bring a light sweater just in case. Rey Llarena, WRAD 1st Vice President and Coordinator of DHH Bike Day at the Beach. For more information, contact Rey Llarena at wradvicepresident@yahoo.com
	We are starting a new group called the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Professionals Happy Hour once a month on the SECOND Friday of the month to meet other professionals in any field for the purpose of exchanging information and to have a good time. New Location will be on Friday Nov 11, 2005 from 5pm until 2am 8447 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, California It is on Santa Monica Blvd not far from La Cienega Blvd in West Hollywood, California There are 132 Imported and Domestic Beers with 22 Beers on Tap!!!!!! It is Los Angeles's premiere fun spot with BEST burgers and chili among other selections of food in town. Good food and good fun- VERY reasonable prices. Thanks to Monica Harr for the referral. Everyone is welcome including friends of the deaf and hard of hearing. For more info about the place you can visit the website at barneysbeanery. Free wireless internet on site. See you on Friday November 11th at Barney's Beanery Click here to visit their website. For more information about the DHH-PHH group, contact Bruce Gross at wradceo@aol.com
	Over 125 deaf and hard of hearing and some hearing people came to the WRAD's 4th Halloween Costume Ball on Friday night October 28th at the beautiful and huge Friendship Auditorium near Griffith Park in Los Angeles. Most came in costumes and cash prizes were given to the winners. The Grand Prize winner was Linda Kerstein who received a free Sidekick 2 pager from T-Mobile. Bob Hiltermann, the deaf Hollywood actor performed magnificently as the Master of Ceremony. Many people in the audience enjoyed his performance and we also had breakdancers from the FlowCo. Entertainment with Alex Nevarez and his group who demonstrated excellent breakdancing skills after the costume contest ended. Many of us were deaf but Joe Mc Roberts, himself deaf, was the head DJ providing great music to our ears and feet to feel the vibrations during the Halloween Ball. Some of people danced and many enjoyed feeling or listening to the music. Joe Mc Roberts also brought many of his Halloween life-sized monsters to the stage of Friendship Auditorium where Gino Giudice, also a deaf artist, did the background stage that was very professional and beautiful. Gino, who is the master in wearing creative costumes, surprised many people after he removed his home-made witch costume with a mask. Many did not recognize him when he was wearing the costume. We had a special guest, Jerry Ferris, the TV celebrity from the Bachelorette TV show on ABC, who came to the Halloween Ball to meet and entertain with the guests. He is a CODA and is a very good signer. It was Sprint who sponsored Jerry Ferris to the event. Sprint also provided pictures of Jerry for him to autograph for the guests of the party. It was wonderful to have Jerry with us all night at the party and he was very friendly and loved to chat with everyone. WRAD would like to thank the four sponsors who made contributions to the Halloween Ball. They are Sprint, T-Mobile, Los Angeles Councilman La Bonge and Joe Mc Roberts of his DJ music. DJ Music: Joe McRoberts The Judges for the evening were Bernard Bragg, Lilly Crisman, and Mary Ruth Summers.We also had volunteers to help with the event. They were Paul Davis, Anthony Natale, Rey Llarena, Marlene Riley, Richard Mercanto, Diane Gomez and her husband Salvador, Rudy Ramirez, and Misty Romero. Both Bruce Gross, the Founder of the WRAD organization over 20 years ago and the current President/CEO, and Gino Guidice both were the Co-chairpersons of the Halloween Ball. Rey Llarena, the 1st Vice President of WRAD, also took pictures of the Halloween Ball.He also is coordinating the WRAD website as the Webmaster. It was the 4th Halloween Costume Ball that the WRAD organization organized and we are thinking about hosting a 5th one within the next few years. Click here to view more Halloween pictures #1 - 167kb Click here to view more Halloween pictures #2 - 162kb
	Greetings from the Chair of the 2006 Convention! First, I would like to thank you for giving me this wonderful opportunity to serve in the role of Chairperson of the 2006 U.S. Deaf Ski and SnowboardAssociation (USDSSA) convention. It is great to be chosen as Chair, especially given that the location of the convention will be Telluride. It is a town full of world class ski slopes and is located in San Juan Mountains in Southwestern Colorado. The town is on the edge of paradise a place filled with the awesome force of natures artistry, the mountains, people filled with gentle spirits, great lifestyle with warm hearts. Telluride, once earned its livelihood as a base for mining and is now a recreation mecca filled with wintertime adventure. It is a major ski resort and in the evenings you will be able to stroll through a charming Victorian town filled with examples of its fascinating past and modernistic ammenities that actually dip into the future. I can say this because I was there and its simply a wonderfully appealing site for our ski convention. It is not too early to consider serving on the committee as it will be a great group of people working together. Please feel free to email me at StephenHlibok@usdssa.org if you are interested in being part of this positive process and event. More details will be announced during the 2004 convention in Salt Lake City, Utah. Meanwhile, why not insert www.tellurideskiresort.com as a favorite bookmark. Afterall, it is not too early for me to say "Welcome to the Telluride, 2006 USDSSA Convention!" For more information, Click here Courtesy by: Stephen Hilbok, Chairperson 2004 USDSSA.
	Convention of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Pittsburgh, PA June 23-27, 2006 Build your bridge to the 2006 Convention with a presentation proposal designed to inform education and hearing health professionals, parents and adults with hearing loss about trends and current practices in the field of deafness and spoken language. For more information, Click here
	Greetings fellow members of the DEAFLYMPICS family, The 2007 Deaflympics Organizing Committee has been very busy this year. With all the support we now have, the 2007 Deaflympic Winter Games should become one of the very best ever staged! I want to share with you what our committee has accomplished so far: The 2007 Deaflympics headquarters hotel will be Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City, an 880 room hotel which also was used for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. We have a great deal with the hotel, which includes unlimited gourmet buffet breakfasts and dinners. Little America Hotel will be an "Olympic Village" where athletes can meet, relax, and socialize. Teams staying at Little America Hotel will be provided with free bus transportation to the competition venues and ceremonies. More information on Little America Hotel and the costs, which include meals, is available in our website, 2007 Deaflympics The Opening Ceremony and Closing Ceremony will be at the 2002 Olympic Cauldron Park, 5 minutes from Little America Hotel. This will be a gala event with lighting of the Deaflympic flame on the 2002 Olympics cauldron. The alpine skiing and snowboarding competition will be at Park City Mountain Resort, and most of the competition events will be held on the same courses used during the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. Park City is a 25 minute ride from Little America Hotel. The Nordic skiing competition will be at Soldier Hollow Nordic Center, and will use the same courses used in the 2002 Olympics. Soldier Hollow is a 45 minute drive from Little America Hotel. The ice hockey and curling competition will be at Steiner's Ice Arena in Salt Lake City, which is a 5 minute ride from Little America Hotel. Several entertaining arts and culture events will be held in Salt Lake City during the Deaflympics week; art shows, International Deaf Club, International Deaf Coffeehouse, Deaf theatre, and more. All arts and culture events will be held either in Little America Hotel or within a short walk of the hotel. After the Closing Ceremony, there will be a gala closing banquet followed with a closing party at the Salt Lake City Convention Center, a few blocks from Little America Hotel. Little America Hotel is now accepting room reservations from both teams and fans, and room reservations may be booked. Because Little America Hotel is in the center of most 2007 Deaflympics activities and will provide teams staying at the hotel with free transportation to competition venues, I strongly encourage teams to make their reservations at Little America Hotel as soon as they can, before the hotel releases rooms not reserved to Deaflympic Games fans and other visitors to Salt Lake City. I look forward to seeing you all in Salt Lake City USA February 1-10, 2007! Courtesy by: Dwight Benedict, Chairperson 2007 Deaflympic Winter Games Organizing Committee.
	Madrid, Spain, July 13-22, 2007 For more information, Click here
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