Our dreams have come true.......

October 2, 2010

I'm hoping most of our IPADDUnite group has already heard of our sons button

business. I know many of you have even ordered buttons from us in the past.

After several years of trying to develop and promote HarrysButtons.com into an

autism specific micro-enterprise that would provide vocational training and

employment opportunities for people with autism, our dreams really have come

true.....

Harry Jr's favorite hobby, that we helped him start as his " button business in

the basement " , is now owned by Easter Seals Metropolitan Chicago and operated at

their Autism School and Adult Program in Tinley Park. Harry Jr is " out of the

basement " and now working with dozens of friends on the spectrum who are all

pulling together to make a successful business for themselves.

Easter Seals has done a tremendous job in further developing HarrysButtons into

a micro-enterprise that involves both their high school students and their adult

clients in all aspects of building and operating a business. (Harry Jr is in

charge of quality control, and there's not many button making mistakes that get

past him!)

ABC7 Chicago's Mayer recently did a segment about HarrysButtons at Easter

Seals that I'd like to share:

Harry Jr, Marilyn, and I couldn't be prouder of our friends and fellow workers

at Easter Seals Metropolitan Chicago. When you get a chance, please also check

out their newly redesigned website at: www.harrysbuttons.com

Now our family has a new and improved dream. One where Easter Seals will someday

soon expand their HarrysButtons business to include many more students and

adults at their other autism schools in Chicago, Rockford, and Waukegan.

We would appreciate any support and/or encouragement you can give Easter Seals

Metropolitan Chicago in their efforts to further develop and expand their new

micro-enterprise to assist as many young people with autism as possible.

Thank you IPADDUnite,

Harry and Marilyn Engnell

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