The Rocky Mountain Renegades Special Needs Hockey Team is having a fundraiser on Tuesday, March 4th from 5:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. It will be held at the Skybox Grille, 4 South Rio Grande Street, Gateway Plaza. Contact Mary Lederman for more information.

The self advocate presenter deadline for  the National Down Syndrome Congress (NDSC)  Youth and Adult conference workshop is February 14th. If you would like to be considered as a presenter for the 2008 Y&A conference, please go to NDSC website  and download the Paln and Information forms and return to the NDSC Center by February 14, 2008. Don’t forget to include the audio-visual preferences for your proposed workshop.

Have you ever seen the people in front of Liberty Tax Service in the Statue of Liberty costume or the Uncle Sam costume waving to people? If that is something you think you might like to do then you can call Norm Hanson at Liberty Tax Service, 801-243-5262. Norm has two locations, one in Salt Lake at 1132 E. 3300 S. and one in Murray at 4370 S. 153 E. Starting pay is $7.00. He is willing to let any individual who wants a job work for him.

For Immediate Release: February 1, 2008

Contact:

David Tolleson, National Down Syndrome Congress, (770)604-9500

Jon Colman, National Down Syndrome Society, (212)763-4371

The National Down Syndrome Congress (NDSC) and the National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS) condemned the use of individuals with Down syndrome by terrorists following dual bombings in Baghdad Friday. According to news reports, terrorists used remote-controlled explosives attached to two women with Down syndrome to kill at least 73 people.
  Responding to news of the attack, NDSC Executive Director David Tolleson said, “this tragedy is compounded by the terrorist’s vicious exploitation of individuals with Down syndrome NDSS President Jon Colman agreed, noting that “this was not a suicide attack, these women were murdered, as surely as the other victims.”
  This is not the first time individuals with Down syndrome have been used by terrorists in such deadly attacks in Iraq. On January 31, 2005, an explosive device tied to a boy with Down syndrome was exploded in Baghdad, in an act condemned at the time by NDSC and NDSS and others around the world.
  Both the National Down Syndrome Society and the National Down Syndrome Congress urge the Iraqi government to use every available method to end the abuse of individuals with Down syndrome and to use this tragedy as a catalyst to enact and uphold policies and laws that will protect the basic human and civil rights of all individuals with disabilities.