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Who says you need eyes to bowl a perfect game?  78 year-old Dale Davis of Alta, Iowa bowled a perfect game on May 3rd of 2008 at the Century Lanes Bowling alley.  A matter of fact, in the entire existance of the business, there never had been a perfect game bowled there before Dale Davis.

People in the Bowling alley weren’t paying much attention until Dale was about to bowl his final strike.  That’s when people left the bar, and stopped bowling and gathered round lanes 3 and four to see if he could do it.
When Dale threw the ball down the lane, everyone was silent, until you heard the all too familiar colonk colonk of the pins being knocked down.  Then somebody hollered, "brooklyn!"  In bowling terminology, a Brooklyn is when the strike that is made when the ball somehow crosses over the 1-3 pocket.

Now you may be asking yourself, if Dale can’t see, how on Earth does he make all those strikes, winding up with a perfect game of 300?  I don’t think that anybody really knows, accept for Dale himself, and according to him, he has a feel for it.  He knows how the ball is going to hit the pins when he throws it.  He knows what it is going to be by the sound of the ball going down the lane, and he also knows that he is going to strike because of his uncanny way of positioning himself right even with the big center dot on the lane.

Dale is known as the hammer because of the way that the ball goes down the lane.  He weighs every bit of 120 pounds, but he used to drive a truck for years before he lost his vision.

I guess you could say that because of Dale, Century :Lanes, and Alta Iowa were put on the map.  Alta Iowa is not your huge city.  A matter of fact, the population is about 1000.  However, it could have been a million when Dale made that final strike.  It just goes to show that not everything happens in the big cities.  Sometimes some of the greatest things happen in places that most of us have never heard of before.  Those places get put on the map because of some extrordinary event that has taken place that makes it noteworthy.

In Dale’s case, it was definitely noteworthy.  Some people have claimed that the bowling ball that he uses must have eyes of its own.  You can now say that Century Lanes in Alta Iowa has its first famous bowler who bowled the perfect game of 300.
   

51-year old Briton Jan Dinsdale is anxious to play at the Nedbank SA Disabled Golf Open 2008 at Erinvale Golf Estate from May 5-8.

There will be 11 international players in the tournament including Dinsdale and defending champion and leg amputee Mick Horsley from England who is chasing his third title on South African soil.

Dinsdale, lost her sight in 1996 due to cone-rod dystrophy and took up golf two years later. She has proved to be an excellent player in the last 10 years.

During the 2004 Canadian Open in Kelowna, she recorded the first hole-in-one by a visually impaired or blind female golfer.

Dinsdale says the advantage to being visually impaired is that she visualises the hole from fairway to green but doesn’t have to worry about the impending doom that sighted players have to face such as hazards, rough and bunkers.

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David Paterson takes office as New Yorks first African-American governor and the USA’s first-ever legally blind governor.

Paterson replaces Eliot Spitzer who had to resign. Paterson considers himself a conciliator; a sharp contrast to the former governor’s style.

Paterson has only been lieutenant governor for 14 months and will now move into the prominent position of Governor of New York.

David Paterson lost all his sight in his left eye due to an infection when he was only three months old. His vision in his right eye is extremely limited.

This 1888 photo released by the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston shows Helen Keller when she was eight years old, left, holding hands with her teacher, Anne Sullivan, during a summer vacation to Brewster, Mass., on Cape Cod. A staff member at the society discovered the photograph in a large photography collection recently donated to the society. This is believed to be the first known photograph of Helen Keller with one of her dolls.

"It’s really one of the best images I’ve seen in a long, long time," said Helen Selsdon, an archivist at the American Federation for the Blind, where Keller worked for more than 40 years. "This is just a huge visual addition to the history of Helen and Annie."

You can read about how this photo was hidden away for over a century here…

Helen Keller Photo Found After Hidden For A Century

Ivan Castro, a former Army Ranger, is blind due to a mortar exploding just five feet away from him.

Ivan says, he "never thought" he’d be able to do something like skiing again. Now he’s doing something he never dreamed possible. 

He and other vets blinded in Iraq were in Sun Valley for the Sun Valley Adaptive Sports program.

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