800-HP Chevy Corvette to Assist Blind Racer Attempting 210-MPH Record This Year 14 Apr 2021, 9:45 UTC ·
by
Dan Parker, aka The Blind Machinist, has an incredible life story. He was blinded in a horrific drag racing incident back in 2012 and continues to race to this very day. Better yet, he’s taking part in the 2021 Blind Driver Challenge and, later this year, will attempt to nail the Guinness Book World Record for the “
Fastest Speed for a Car Driven Blindfolded.” 10 photos
Born into a family imbued with adrenaline in its DNA, Dan Parker became a racer just like his father. Unfortunately, after a promising start into a Pro Mod and Pro Nitrous drag racing career (he has a Dixie Pro Stock championship as well as the 2005 ADRL Pro Nitrous world championship title), an accident in 2012 rendered him completely blind.
Support Notes: April 11-17
Fort Smith Times Record
Al-Anon: 12 step support groups for families and friends of alcoholics. Info line (479) 441-9705 or (888) 425-2666 or visit al-anon.org.
• Get A Life Step Study: 12 p.m. Monday at Community Bible Church, 9201 Dallas St., Fort Smith (near playground entrance). Call (479) 806-0184.
• Adult Child: 7 p.m. Monday at Midland Heights United Methodist Church, 3500 N. Sixth St., Fort Smith. Call (479) 459-8756.
• Steps to Serenity Step Study: 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at Community Bible Church, 9201 Dallas St., Fort Smith. Call (479) 650-2762 or (479) 461-6486.
• 4U2: 6 p.m. Tuesday at 426 Holden Street, Booneville. Call (479) 225-9150.
• Safe Landing: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Trinity United Methodist Church, 1601 E. Shantel Smith Blvd., Muldrow.
Cooking tips and tools for the blind and disabled
(Martina Ibáñez-Baldor / Los Angeles Times; Getty )
By Stephanie Breijo
Print
People with visual impairments and other disabilities can face challenges cooking but a growing number of services, guides and technologies can help make the kitchen a safe, accessible space.
These resources offer visual recipes, tutorials, adaptive-tool recommendations and more to help more people discover and enjoy cooking.
More Coverage
Online resources
Safety tips: The VisionAware website from the APH ConnectCenter offers a directory of services and articles for those with low vision or blindness and allows alteration of the site’s contrast level and font size for easier reading. VisionAware published a free guide to safe cooking techniques, including tips on how to check a dish’s doneness using senses other than sight, how to safely pour liquids and how to measure ingredients effectively.
Democrats on a Senate panel on Tuesday advanced a bill that would allow voters with disabilities to return voted ballots online, a provision that pitted disability advocates against election security experts.
Senate Bill 21-188 from Sen. Jessie Danielson seeks to build on legislation the Wheat Ridge Democrat championed in 2019 that allows voters with disabilities to access a ballot online. Under Danielson s Senate Bill 19-202, a ballot can then be marked, printed and returned, which allows voters with disabilities to cast a ballot privately and independently.
After being signed into law in May 2019, Danielson said Secretary of State Jena Griswold quickly implemented the legislation and it has largely been successful save for one hiccup: few voters with disabilities have a printer.
Grieder: GOP’s lurch to belligerent populism should have voters on edge By Erica Grieder, Staff writer
There was a time when business leaders held real, and sometimes critical, influence over the Republican Party of Texas.
It would be hard to argue that time is over, given that state leaders continue to treat the private sector with mysterious deference when it comes to, for example, reforming the state’s power sector in the wake of the winter freeze that left millions without electricity and nearly 200 Texans dead.
But the relationship between the Texas GOP and the state’s business community is strained, at the moment, now that some business leaders are joining Democrats and civic and faith leaders in speaking out against clear efforts at voter suppression in Georgia, Texas and other GOP-led states.