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.