F.E.A.S.T. Civics Class

Our family has been blessed to be a part of a very informative and interesting civics class that the F.E.A.S.T. organization puts on each month. As always, the speakers are a delight and more than willing to teach us their expertise in the area of politics. This week's line up was no different! We had the opportunity to hear Judge Marion T. Carson as well as Attorney Blake Coffee. Both were very intriguing and well informed on the topics they shared, but what was most interesting about this month's speaker Marion Carson is the fact that he is totally deaf! Assisting in his courtroom duties are two hearing aids and a state-of-the-art captioning system that transforms courtroom talk into text. The text is then displayed on a computer screen making it readable for the Judge. He says 99 percent of the time defendants don't even know he is deaf! It is truly amazing what technology affords us these days. Once again thank you Gale Sayers for everything you do to make classes like this happen. We have all been extremely blessed and look forward to each new class every month :)