New Machine Creates More Opportunity at A.V.R.E.

11/15/2012 (Updated 11:40:53 PM)

A new tool for "opportunity,independence and success"
 
That's how officials of the Association for Vision Rehabilitation and Employment describe was is being created as it unveiled its new ream wrapping machine on Thursday.

A.V.R.E. hopes the 468-thousand dollar machine will  increase production and create more jobs. One worker put it this way:

"It's totally accessible,and that is because of the manufacturer and the folks here at A.V.R.E. which made it that way. It allows me, as a blind individual, to run this up-to-date piece of equipment and run it just like an individual that has 20/20 vision."
 
A.V.R.E. employs about 65 people--the majority of them being blind or visually impaired.