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Visions March 2010

Volume 24 | No.1, Autumn 2010

Donna Purcell and her Guide Dog, Hetty.

Guide Dogs NSW/ACT offers free training to offending airlines

Discrimination against a client and her Guide Dog leads to airlines-training opportunity.

  
Guide Dogs CEO Graeme White

Chief Executive Officer's message

It's been an eventful 12 months at Guide Dogs NSW/ACT, and there have been some really positive changes.

  
Screenshot of the new website

Guide Dogs website gets a facelift

If you have visited our website recently, you will have noticed some changes - for the better!

  
Photo of a blonde Guide Dog

Supporter survey yields surprising results

A recent survey of Guide Dogs NSW/ACT supporters has revealed some very surprising results!

  
Guide Dogs-in-training at Glossodia with a selection of paper bones.

Guide Dogs supporters throw us a bone!

As part of our 2009 Christmas appeal, we invited some supporters to send us a personalised Christmas message on a boneshaped paper cut-out.

  
Sponsored Guide Dog pup, Jet.

Guide Dog pup Jet takes off for Deloitte

In many ways, eight-month-old Jet is like any other Labrador puppy. He loves tummy rubs, going for walks and devouring his dinner.

  
Sharee Paton at the 2009 Orange Field Days.

Guide Dogs NSW/ACT gives Sharee a head start

Like many of us, Sharee Paton values her independence highly and doesn't like asking for help. "I'd prefer to give things a go myself first," Sharee says.

  
Doug Ritchie, right, at work with a client.

Doug's career goes to the dogs

In his almost 30 years as a Guide Dog Instructor, Doug Ritchie has concluded that there is no such thing as a typical client.

  
Lachlan cuddles up to his watchful PAT dog, Grady.

Lachlan and Grady are best buddies

Not every dog that enters our training program will graduate as a Guide Dog. However, that's not the only career path we offer here at Guide Dogs NSW/ACT!

  
Luke, a young Guide Dogs’ client, is being taught a karate move.

Hi-ya! Guide Dogs kids learn karate

Six kids with vision impairment got the chance to learn karate with instructors from Seido Karate Kazoku karate school in Sydney during the January school holidays.

  
Client Sally Jarry with her trusted Guide Dog.

Guide Dogs inspires poetry!

Thank you to Mr Gray from Green Point, NSW, for his lovely - and educational - poem. All contributions are appreciated!

  
Tyrrell’s Wines

Guide Dogs merchandise

Great products, delivered to your home

  
Puppy Pals fans Anne and David Young with their granddaughter Hannah and pet dog, Angel.

Meet some new Puppy Pals!

David and Anne Young are among hundreds of Guide Dogs NSW/ACT supporters who have signed up for our exciting new Guide Dogs program - Puppy Pals.


March 2010 PDF

FrontPage of the March 2010 Visions newsletter

The Visions newsletter, March 2010, is available to download in PDF format. Please note the PDF is 645 kilobytes.