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March/April 2017

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38 | March/April 2017 Tickets On Sale NOW! Give every child a voice! For more info, or to purchase tickets, call 910.486.9700, or visit CACFayNC.org. Thank you to all our generous sponsors. For a complete list, please visit CACFayNC.org. Saturday, March 25 th , 6-10pm crown Center Ballroom To benefit the Child Advocacy Center Rock Stars Heather & Rich Barbaro Champions for Children that might be difficult or impossible for them to participate in otherwise. e center offers summer camps, youth programs, braille classes, healthy living programs that include yoga and other forms of exercise, arts and cras activities, van transportation to and from the center and a host of other regular services. For omas, a Fayetteville native who spent her early career working in the corporate world of the pharmaceutical industry, working with the visually impaired was never something she would have predicted for herself, though she now considers it one of the most important things she has done in her life. omas had le her corporate job in Raleigh and moved back to Fayetteville nearly a decade ago to take care of her ailing father, and had at first wanted to find a career working with the elderly, until Amy Henderson, a friend of hers from church who was visually impaired, told her about a job opening at the Vision Resource Center. Left: Thomas considers working with the visually impaired one of the most important things she has done in her life. Right: Vision Resource Center offers their "Out of Sight" Dining Event, where guests can don a blindfold and experience eating their meal without their vision. Their 2nd Annual Out of Sight Chicken Wing Cook-Off will be held this June.

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