The Braille Monitor                                             
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Blind Dog Sledder on Her Way  From the Editor: For a couple of
years now everyone in the blindness field has been cheering on
Rachael Scdoris, a young woman with perhaps a unique dream for a
blind person. She has wanted to enter the Iditarod dogsled race
between Anchorage and Nome, Alaska. This year, on March 5, she,
her dog team, and her lead sled will enter this grueling race of
over eleven hundred miles. This is her third attempt to qualify,
so she has already won a significant victory before she even
crosses the starting line. Here are two stories that describe
this remarkable young woman who would not take no for an answer:
Blindness No Barrier for Nineteen‑Year‑Old  by Bruce Ely  This
article appeared Thursday, January 13, 2005, published by the
Newhouse News Service.  The frost that settled overnight softens
in the golden sunlight. As the surface me