Kates Inclusion Adventures

 Hi all my Invermere friends  Here are the answers to my question posted in the the article “Count Me In emphasizes the importance of inclusion” for those who read it, and wanted to test themselves.       Let’s see how you did! The 5 “Excellent Accessibility Features” featured in the photo in the article  of The “Columbia Valley Centre”  are: 1. Accessible doors with an automatic button 2. A flat surface, and a curb cut out to wheel or walk with assistance (mobility device), up onto the sidewalk) 3. A wide “Handicapped Parking Stall” with a standing up visible sign 4. Snow removal has been done to make wheeling and walking around the parking lot manageable  5. Did you notice the word KICHEN on the door of the right side of the Columbia Valley Centre? The lettering is BIG and BOLD.  This makes the word easier for people who are visually impaired to read.  How did you do? Okay, or do  you need to work on your “accessibility literacy...

Hello everybody, First of all,  I want to give a big thankyou to the staff of Invermere's Pioneer Newspaper for putting the picture in their papers February 2nd edition, of me gratefully receiving a cheque from The Kinsmen Club of Windermere.  I am so grateful to Dave Oaks and other Kinsmen members for helping endorse " Count Me In",   and for believing in my dream of making my community more inclusive to all people in all places.  I am also grateful for this advertising for Count Me In by our local paper, however, I also just want to point out that they cropped the picture. This makes sense for them to crop it for space issues, however,  it makes it difficult to spot the five accessibility features in the photo. I have asked the papers to run the article again with the full picture, but, for now here is the picture with all  the accessible feature for you to view.  Can you name what the accessibility features are? Check back on this blog on Thu...