Greeley Tribune: Blind speaker from Otis encourages audience to ‘believe in what you can’t see’

28 Jan Greeley Tribune: Blind speaker from Otis encourages audience to ‘believe in what you can’t see’

By Bridgett Weaver
Greeley Tribune

Watching him laugh and joke about his blindness in front of a crowd, you’d never expect that there was a time when Landan Schaffert felt bad for himself.

You’d never guess that people told him he couldn’t do something — mostly because he always did it, anyway.

And you’d never guess that the loss of a close friend is what caused him to stop feeling bad for himself.