Eggleston has joined the Retail Alliance of Hampton Roads and recently made a presentation to the alliance Breakfast Club. Document Conversion Manger Sandra Witherow, Manager of Business Services Jerry Archer and Embroidery Supervisor Julie Waltz spoke about their respective operations. Eggleston’s Document Management Services, Business Fulfillment Services, Custom Embroidery and Screen-printing operations valuable products and services and employ persons with disabilities.

Eggleston is participating in the Retail Alliance LOVEVA local business program which provides rewards to all customers for shopping at Eggleston and other participating local businesses. For more details, please visit: www.retailalliance.com.

Pam Frazer, Program Manager, Eggleston Peninsula Division recently attended the 2016 Autism conference in Charlottesville, VA and met Dr. Temple Grandin. Diagnosed with autism as a child, Dr. Grandin is a noted author, speaker and animal scientist who teaches at Colorado State University. Dr. Grandin was the focus of a semi-biographical HBO film, entitled Temple Grandin starring Claire Danes as Dr. Grandin. The movie was released in 2010, was nominated for 15 Emmys, and received five awards.

Eggleston associates will perform in a black light puppet theatre presentation on stage at the Governor’s School for the Arts in Norfolk July 16 and 17 at 2PM under the direction of members of the Virginia Stage Company. Tickets are free to the public, contact Ron Newman, at rnewman@vastage.org.

Congratulations to Food Service Worker Marie Johnson for her excellence in advocacy as she represented Eggleston last week at the SourceAmerica Grassroots Advocacy Conference. Marie traveled to Washington DC accompanied by Eggleston Vice President of Government Contracts Chris Hoagland and Human Resource Coordinator Alice Arney.

The annual awareness campaign takes place every June in Washington, D.C. Throughout the three-day conference, Eggleston engaged in a variety of grassroots advocacy activities to educate members of Congress on disability employment issues and the role they must play in fostering an inclusive work culture.

Marie met with representatives and staff for Senator Tim Kaine, Senator Mark Warner, Representative Randy Forbes, Representative Rob Wittman, and Representative Bobby Scott.

We are proud once again to host our friends from the Custom Classic Corvette Club. Come check it out and also get a chance to see our 1975 Custom Rebuilt Corvette which we are raffling off to one lucky winner. Please note, we will hold the event June 18th due to weather forecasts.

Congratulations to Chris Hoagland (pictured on left), our Vice President of Government Contracts who won the 2015 East Region Management Excellence Award given by the National Council of SourceAmerica Employers (NCSE). Chris was recently presented his award at the 2016 national AbilityOne conference. Chris was being recognized for his outstanding leadership, commitment to quality and effectiveness in enhancing opportunities for employment for persons with disabilities.

The Fourteenth Annual Day for People with disABILITIES at the Virginia Zoological Park will occur May 21, 2016. Last year, thousands of citizens attended the event and this year’s event will be just as successful. We expect hundreds of individuals including service providers, people with disabilities, and interested family members to attend the event. As always, admission is free to any person with a disability and one caregiver.

The goal of the event is to provide resource information and a leisure experience to residents of the Hampton Roads community with a disABILITY, temporary impairment, or health condition, with the hope that people will find a new product or service, learn from the experience of others, and gain new living, advocacy or job skills. The event includes a full day of exhibits under the theme of “All Aboard” to include a public safety expo, Virginia Zoo discovery carts and animal ambassadors, children’s activities, inflatables, the Hurrah Players, TRDance Center’s Adaptive Dance, and Meet Mark Twain of the Virginia Stage Company.

For questions regarding the event, contact Cathy Orletsky at the Therapeutic Recreation Center at 441-1764 or catherine.orletsky@norfolk.gov.

Eggleston employees and President/CEO Paul Atkinson appeared yesterday on the Hampton Roads Show to talk about our upcoming OK5K run. Watch their appearance below, see everyone there!