Attendees at BVA’s Book Club Interest Group virtual meeting this past Wednesday finalized their two-month reading and review of John Grisham’s The Appeal. For the upcoming month, culminating with the next meeting on February 25, the group has decided to read The Tenant by Freida McFadden. The book can be accessed using the National Library Service’s Talking Books Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) Identifier DB 129429. Total average reading time for The Tenant is estimated

Seven members of the Richmond Chapter of BVA’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Group joined forces with the American Council of the Blind of Virginia (ACBVA) on January 22 at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond. The purpose of the pre-planned event was to actively, and in person, voice support at the state level for a variety of bills that could affect blind and low vision veterans who reside in the “Commonwealth” (State) of Virginia. Members of the

“A Life at Sea and Still Moving Forward: Jim Rush’s Navy Service, Blind Rehab, and 99 Years of Perspective” is the subject of the newest episode of BVA’s monthly podcast Visions of BVA. The program will go live this Sunday, February 1, at 3:00am Eastern Time. In this powerful and heartfelt episode of Visions of BVA, host Steve Baskis sits with Jim Rush, a 99-year-old U.S. Navy veteran whose life spans World War II, the

Cheri Owen, Air Force veteran, President of the Southern California Regional Group, and a blind student in the California State University system (Long Beach campus) in the field of Studio Arts, has been awarded the Dale M. Schoettler Scholarship for Visually Impaired Students. Schoettler was a successful business professional who lost his sight during the last year of his life. Through his financial support stemming from a desire to give visually impaired students a helping