[HATS] Another Application for Video

[Ed Manuel (N5EM)]

The following news item is quoted from Videomaker Magazine.

"While visiting his wife's aunt in a nursing home, John Higgins of 
Columbia, South Carolina had what could be called a vision.

The retired sixteen-year veteran of the Columbia police department 
regularly video-taped his trips to the local zoo, parades and other events 
in the area.  Higgins formulated an idea to share these tapes with the 
residents of the nursing home who are not able to get out and see these 
events for themselves.  And that's what he's been doing for the past two 
years now.

Higgins says he would like to see the idea grow to include other groups 
such as children's hospitals and the disabled.

Besides the good feeling he gets watching others enjoy his video-taped 
trips, the Riverbanks Zoo staff, after hearing about his efforts, has 
started letting him in for free.  How's that for inspiration?"

Quoted from the April, 2001 issue of Videomaker Magazine, Volume 15, Number 10.

http://www.videomaker.com

Ed Manuel, N5EM
Houston Amateur Television Society, Inc.
n5em@amsat.org

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