Volunteer Spotlight

Congratulations to Lori Hendrickson for being selected as Volunteer of the Month for July. Lori began at Aftersight back in 2015, which means she is about to hit ten years with Aftersight. After retiring from teaching kindergarten, Lori was looking for ways to give back to her community, and she discovered Aftersight in the local newspaper. Lori has been reading the Grand Junction Sentinel ever since, and she has a lot of compassion for local communities, and ensuring that they have equal access to information.

Congradulations to Bryce for becoming the volunteer of the month for June.

Brice has always been active in the comunity, from working at supe kitchens as a child, to working at an NPR station in college, and eventually volunteering for Aftersight.

This epasode is packed full of stories and advice, so grab your favorite cold beveradge and enjoy.

This month on VSL, Evan interviews Ralph Towers, Aftersights may volunteer of the month.

Ralph started with aftersight around sevin years ago, reading the Grand Junction Sentenal.

In this epasode, you'll get a glimps into not only Ralph's volunteer experience, but also some of his passed endeavors, like working as a voice tallent for a student radio station.

Aftersight is proud to nominate Claudia Murphy as the volunteer of the month for April.

Claudia began as a volunteer seven years ago, but she has been a verry active volunteer in her community since moving to the United States over 20 years ago.

Claudia joined Aftersight as part of a new year’s resolution to do something out of her comfort zone, and she has been an integral part of our Spanish programming ever since.

This month, we have the pleasure of speaking with Geri Gingras, who just reached her five-year anniversary at Aftersight.

Geri began her volunteer work at an organization formally known as Reading for the Blind and Dyslexic, which later became Learning Ally, which is similar to Aftersight, but primarily handles the reading and transcription of college textbooks.

When Learning Ally closed most of their in-person offices, Geri began looking for other reading opportunities, and found the Colorado Talking Book Library, and eventually Aftersight.

This month, host Evan Starnes interviews Keith Gawlick, who has been a volunteer reader since 1999.

During this episode, we talk about how Keith got started with the Greely Tribune, how he moved on to Hobby Radio and Opera News, and the significance behind the two shows.

There is quite a lot of information on opera music and amateur radio packed into this episode; so grab your favorite hot beverage, and enjoy the show.

We're back at it this month with Bill Lundgren, a licensed psychotherapist and the host of Blindsight.

In this episode, Evan and Bill touch briefly on Bill's journey into vision loss, how he became a licensed psychotherapist and started his own practice, and how it eventually led to him becoming the host of the Aftersight original, Blindsight.

We also briefly touch on the significance of the Blarney Stone and Bill's experience kissing the stone.

Bill is totally blind and was previously on The Blind Chick, formerly Aftersight; you can go back to episode 10 for Bill's entire story about his journey into vision loss."

Happy holidays from all of us at AINC, soon to be Aftersight.

This month, we have the pleasure of talking with Tom Anglewicz, a retired architect.

Tom started as a volunteer in 2014, but that's only part of the story.

Tom joined our relocation committee to share his architectural expertise and make sure we find a place that fits our needs; his contributions have been tremendous!

In his free time, Tom enjoys walking his dog and taking care of his bonsai trees.

This month, we have the pleasure of talking with Ginger Hedrick. Ginger started as an in-person reader, but eventually, she and her family moved to West Virginia, where Ginger has continued as a remote reader ever since. Ginger is a musician; the flute is her instrument of choice, and she has played for several orchestras. Besides playing the flute, Ginger is also an avid hiker and reader. She finds volunteering for AINC very fulfilling and is honored to be the November Volunteer of the Month.