Last year, employment for Americans with disabilities reached the highest number on record, according to the Kessler Foundation, though many advocates say better hiring and workplace practices are still needed. Before the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law in 1990, many people with disabilities were openly denied work, including Sammy Mabe, who's been working as a switchboard operator at LewisGale Hospital in Pulaski for fifty years.
Martin Skelly was 18 in 1984 when his mom, Delores, gave him a very important assignment on the day before the AAUW s local used-book sale: Move the books to the
The proposed ordinance for the sale, which town staff formally introduced at a meeting this past week, is linked to greater plans Blacksburg has for roughly 35 acres of land