Golden Key is this Friday, what a hoot. Golden Key in my mind has always been an inappropriate and degrading, sensationalist use of people with disabilities for the benefit of government programs and the businesses who hire the people with disabilities. SACRILEGE ! A job is a job is a job regardless of how the person with a disability gets the job, the person is working—right? I guess but Golden key is such a Jerry Lewis affair. Oh I used to go Golden Key when the hosting agency served a hot lunch but even then the price was eventually too high for me to pay for a hot lunch and a break from office duties for an afternoon. One must remember the Event was started by a different regime then the on currently in power—whose director I actually like and support—all things being equal. But I do respect the poor counselors charged with services to folks with disabilities in this time o economic down turn with fewer and fewer employes with massive caseloads.
Over the past couple of years I have been producing and staring in an INTERNET broadcast interview show called Access Utah Now. I do two shows a month highlighting some agency or program locally which provides services and supports to families of and people with disabilities. The project has been fun an I have joyed a little notoriety. The main goal in my mind was simply to have another tool in getting Access Utah network out in-font of the public and organizations which serve people with disabilities and hopefully save my job. Yes, I agree totally self serving but I have to admit the broadcasts are usually the most fun I have on a Thursday. We now have 62 programs archived.
A couple of months ago a buddy of mine, Kent, a director of a local assistive technology program, he had submitted me for consideration for the Golden key in Media. I really did not pay much attention to his comment an promptly forgot the discussion until last week when I was contacted by the director of Governor's Council notifying me that I or Access Utah now had one Golden Key 2011 for Media...!
Seriously is this for real? It is and you know what I am going this Friday regardless of what I think or what I have said. If they are going to give me an award I am going to take it and a have fun doing it. Am I a sell out or what. I have to admit the event no longer comes with food and judging by the fact I was notified a week before the event leads me to believe someone else actually was chosen and turned the award down—obvious some one with more personal integrity then I. Its not even job security, I doubt my nomination and award will have an impact whether I might receive more funding come July. I think mostly Kent is a true believer and he nominated me out of the best intentions, I hope. Or maybe I am just mellowing, more then I thought and sometimes it is just nice to be recognized by anyone just for the heck of it.
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