July 28, 2004

Mr. Ashok Selvam
The Reporter Newspaper
12224 S. Harlem
Palos Heights, IL 60463

Dear Mr. Selvam:

You wrote an article regarding the proposal Little Company of Mary Hospital needing a new parking lot for the people with disabilities.

Enclosed you will find letters to the Little Company of Mary Hospital and the City of Evergreen Park. The Unified Voice for Disabled Americans has been trying to get them to correct the handicap parking spaces to sixteen feet according to the ADA Accessibility Law. We have been asking Little Company of Mary Hospital for more handicap parking spaces. All of them should be nearest the doors. This is a hospital and medical facility that deals with persons with disability and yet they discriminate and violate our civil rights on a daily basis. What good is a new parking lot when they refuse to fix the lots they already have? The blame is really the fault of the City of Evergreen Park.

If The Reporter Newspaper really wants to know how deep the discrimination and violation of our civil rights really goes then the Unified Voice for Disabled Americans would like you to contact Linda Stearns. We would like you to spend one day with her and use the extra scooter she has. She will take you to Little Company of Mary Hospital and a few other places that are in violation of our rights. She will show you how the states, cities and suburbs have not enforced the ADA Law correctly. Linda will introduce you to Charlie. Charlie was born with Spinalbifita. Charlie is now almost forty. Spend time with Charlie and his friends. Linda has fought for his rights to live as a normal young boy to manhood.

Please visit our website. The website will tell you why the Unified Voice for Disabled Americans was formed. We are made up of persons with disabilities only. Our website is www.bonewits.net/UVDA-0.htm

The US Access Board formed by President George Bush is presenting their new proposals for persons with disabilities July 26, 2004. These proposals will give us the freedom and dignity the 1991 ADA law was to have given us. These new proposals have to be passed into law before they can be enforced. The Unified Voice for Disabled Americans needs help to see that are enforced. The only way this can be done if you will help us get President Bush and John L. Wodatch, Chief Disability Rights Section attention to hear our proposal to see the states enforce these laws. There are one million five hundred thousand persons with disabilities in Illinois, fifty-four million nationwide. Discrimination and violation of our civil rights must stop NOW.


Unified Voice for Disabled Americans

Rosemarie A. Botthof


Linda Stearns
708 423 xxxx