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PIBH with NFL Star Doug Flutie Recognizes 23 PA Workers with Disabilities, 21 Organizations Supporting Those with Disabilities

Date:6/10/2009

HARRISBURG, Pa., June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- PIBH recognized 23 outstanding Pennsylvania workers and the exceptional character they demonstrate in living and coping with disabilities, particularly in the workplace.

The Nettie Mann Achievement Award Dinner, held by PIBH at the Hilton Hotel in Harrisburg last night, celebrated the winner and runners-up from across the state. Every day, however, PIBH honors the spirit and skills of Pennsylvanians with disabilities by facilitating employment opportunities for them.

Edwin Brown of McConnellsburg, PA is the winner of the PIBH Nettie Mann Achievement Award. Twenty-two other workers from around the state were honored as runners-up for the prestigious award.

The Nettie Mann Achievement Award is named for an exceptional young woman who tragically died in a 1993 car accident just weeks before being named PIBH Worker of the Year. This distinguished award is given annually to the person who most emulates Mann's enduring legacy of independence and dedication.

This award includes an all-expense paid trip to the award dinner for two, $500 cash gift and plaque. Runners-up attend the award dinner to receive a plaque and $100 cash gift. All will be profiled in the PIBH newsletter.

Growing up on the family farm in Houstontown, PA, Edwin Brown has always had a love for the land. But in order to support his family, he also spent time working in the coal mines. In 1991 at the age of 34, his life changed forever when, in an attempt to not hit a deer that had run onto the road, he swerved his car and hit a tree head on. He was Lifelined to an area hospital and was later diagnosed a quadriplegic.

Brown was told by his doctors that we would need six months of physical and mental rehabilitation. However, through hard work and determination, Brown completed his rehabilitation and re-entered the "real world" after only
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