Upcoming BISM Events Date Dept./Location Event 1/1 All Locations Closed for New Year’s Day Holiday 1/8 Rehabilitation-Hagerstown Seniors: Support Group Meeting at Church 1/8 Rehabilitation-Baltimore Seniors: Blind Vets Workshop at VA Baltimore 1/8 Annapolis Maryland General Assembly Session Begins 1/9 Aberdeen/Edgewood BSC GPC AbilityOne BSC Program Training 1/10 Rehabilitation-Baltimore Seniors: Support Group Meeting 1/14 JB Andrews BSC GPC AbilityOne BSC Program Training 1/15 Ft. Knox BSC GPC AbilityOne BSC Program Training 1/15 Rehabilitation-Baltimore Seniors: Outing to NFB Independence Market 1/20 All Locations Closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday 1/21 Dover BSC GPC AbilityOne BSC Program Training 1/22 Rehabilitation-Hagerstown Seniors: SAIL Outing at Valley Mall 1/23 Rehabilitation-Salisbury Seniors: SAIL Bowling Outing 1/24 Rehabilitation-Baltimore Seniors: Blakehurst Blindness 101 Skills Workshop at BISM 1/27 Rehabilitation-Salisbury Seniors: VIPS Support Group Meeting 1/30 Baltimore Book Club Meeting - 4:00 pm
BISM 2020 Holiday Schedule BISM Locations AbilityOne Base Supply Centers New Year’s Day—Wednesday, January 1 New Year’s Day—Wednesday, January 1 Martin Luther King Jr. Day—Monday, January 20 Martin Luther King Jr. Day—Monday, January 20 Presidents’ Day—Monday, February 17 Presidents’ Day—Monday, February 17 Memorial Day—Monday, May 25 Memorial Day—Monday, May 25 Independence Day—Friday, July 3 Independence Day—Friday, July 3 Labor Day—Monday, September 7 Labor Day—Monday, September 7 Veterans Day—Wednesday, November 11 Columbus Day—Monday, October 12 Thanksgiving—Thursday, November 26 Veterans Day—Wednesday, November 11 Day after Thanksgiving—Friday, November 27 Thanksgiving—Thursday, November 26 Christmas—Friday, December 25 Christmas—Friday, December 25 2020 Shutdown Guidelines for BISM Locations (BSCs excluded): Independence Day shutdown - BISM will close at the end of the business day on Wednesday, July 1. Associates will use one vacation day for Thursday, July 2 (Holiday is on July 3). Christmas shutdown - Associates will use four vacation days for Monday, December 28 through Thursday, December 31. All Associates must work (or be on approved vacation) all available hours the day before and the day after to be eligible for holiday pay.
January Birthdays BISM New Hires Asende Bilomba—Baltimore 1 Larry Hargrove—Raleigh 1 BISM would like to welcome our new associates! Necibullah Mukaddem—Baltimore 1 Danny Teel—Raleigh November 4 Muhammed Mukaddem—Baltimore 1 Musteba Mukaddem—Baltimore 1 Machozi Rebeka—Baltimore 1 Lorie Davis—Raleigh November 7 Alice Bigirimana—Baltimore 1 Vahideh Jafari—Baltimore 1 Steven Burcky—Baltimore November 12 Heather Wolsiefer—Raleigh 1 James Odom—Baltimore 2 Musteba Mukaddem—Baltimore November 13 Gregory Chapman—Baltimore 2 Steven Allen—Baltimore 3 Stephen Watson—Dover BSC November 18 Peggy Platt—Cumberland 3 Ileana Santiago—Hagerstown 3 Ralph Hubbard—Federalsburg November 18 Jung Choi—Salisbury 4 Lucrecia Minchala—Salisbury 5 Tanner Hoskins –Raleigh November 19 Ruth Hairsine—Baltimore 5 Ada Garces Gallo—Raleigh 7 Darnell Crudup—Raleigh 8 Susan Youssef—Raleigh 9 Keep Up-to-Date on BISM News Via Email Valteri Ghurtskaia—Salisbury 9 In an effort to better distribute BISM information to associates Kevin Holman—Raleigh 9 Eden Kebrom—Baltimore 9 who do not have a bism.org email address, we offer the Michael Backstrom—Andrews BSC 10 opportunity for associates to provide us with their personal Andrea Crawford—Raleigh 10 Alton Foskey—Salisbury Cutting 11 email addresses. Participating associates will receive relevant Aeneas Hodge—Raleigh 11 internal BISM emails sent to “Everybody.” Personal email Virginia Santos Lopez—Salisbury 11 addresses will be kept confidential and will only be used to Gamal Sorial Issa—Raleigh 12 David Eichacker—Raleigh 12 share information about BISM. Norman Johnson—Baltimore 13 Associate email addresses can be sent to Rob Ennamorato at Elsa Morel—Raleigh 13 Amy Crouse—Salisbury 14 [email protected] or associates can call Rob at 410-737- Crystal Johnson—Raleigh 14 Tabitha Hawbaker—Hagerstown 14 2615 to submit their email information. Bobbi Jo Bradshaw—Cumberland 15 Cristal Montufar-Villanueva—Raleigh 15 Ana Reyes—Raleigh 16 Follow Blind Industries and Services Tonya Billard—Cumberland 16 Barbara Williams—Salisbury 17 of Maryland on Social Media Odette Kajoba—Baltimore 17 Howard McCleary—Salisbury 17 Tanner Hoskins—Raleigh 17 BISM Main Page: https://www.facebook.com/BISMpage/ Rose Jones-Harris—Salisbury Cutting 18 AbilityOne BSCs: https://www.facebook.com/BISMBSCs/ James Steele—Cumberland 18 Keith Tyson—Andrews BSC 20 ShopBISM: https://www.facebook.com/ShopBISMcom/ Peggy Hogan—Ft. Knox BSC 20 Joseph Wertner—Hagerstown 20 Rubenia Amaya—Raleigh 20 https://twitter.com/BISM_Blind Matthew Ross—Federalsburg 21 Jennifer Applegate—Edgewood BSC 22 Khadija Hajji—Raleigh 22 Myriam Gabriel—Salisbury 23 https://www.linkedin.com/company/blind-industries-and Tracy Arnold—Baltimore 24 -services-of-maryland Skyla Kasecamp—Cumberland 25 Arhea Lazzelle—Baltimore 27 Hee Shin—Salisbury 27 Jimena Jimenez Gonzalez—Raleigh 27 Chae Sparrow—Salisbury 28 https://www.youtube.com/user/BlindIndustriesBISM Xiying Wang—Salisbury 28 Rosa Ortiz-Lebron—Salisbury 31