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"The show 'Choices: Veterans Returning to Work' is the second show PACE-TV has produced with Urban Miyares and his charitable organization," says James Beck, PACE-TV past president. "As a producer of many community interest shows, I have never met a more inspirational and motivational figure than Urban Miyares. Urban's work in helping disabled veterans start their own business and in providing pride in who they are and what they can accomplish has been phenomenal. I felt I had to get the story of Urban Miyares' life history and all of the amazing accomplishments out to the public. 'Choices: Veterans Returning to Work' does the job."

Urban Miyares, a blinded Vietnam veteran and nationally-recognized entrepreneur of 40 years, founded the San Diego-based Disabled Businesspersons Association (DBA) in 1985 as a national pilot-program for disabled veterans interested in starting or already in business. A volunteer-driven public charity, the Disabled Businesspersons Association and Miyares are recognized as one of the nation's leading authorities on the transition (from combat or other traumatic experience) to vocational rehabilitation and eventual competitive entry into the workforce and self-employment, most especially by those with the most severe and catastrophic of physical and psychological challenges. Having served thousands of enterprising veterans and non-veterans with disabilities over the past 23 years, Urban continues to conduct educational programs and motivational presentations nationwide for the enterprising disabled, vocational rehabilitation specialists, healthcare professionals, educators and others in government agencies, organizations, and business.

The television schedule for the first showings of "Choices: Veterans Returning to Work;” about Urban Miyares and the Disabled Businesspersons Association, can be viewed on:

• Tuesday, April 1, 2008, 5:30 PM, Cox Cable, Channel 23 (Central and South County);

• Monday, April 7, 2008, 6:30 PM, Time Warner Cable (Carlsbad), Channel 19; and,

• Sunday, April 13, 2008, 5:30 PM, Time Warner Cable, Channel 19.

To promote the (no cost) airing of "Choices: Veterans Returning to Work" on your local public access television channel, anywhere in the nation, contact James Beck, PACE-TV at James@pacetv.org, call (760) 945-9793, write PACE-TV, PO Box 270634, San Diego, CA 92198, or visit www.pacetv.org. PACE-TV, a non-profit organization, is the longest-running public access production company in the United States. With more than 830 television productions in the past 25 years, PACE-TV shows are aired each week on San Diego's cable access networks -- Time Warner, Cox and Adelphia.

The Disabled Businesspersons Association is a 501(c)(3) public charity assisting veterans, kids and adults with disabilities in their rehabilitation towards workplace entry and successful mainstream outcomes. The DBA supports five programs: National Disabled Veterans Business Center, Self-Employment of People with Disabilities, Youth with Disabilities In Business, Vocational Rehabilitation Educational Programs, and Challenged America. Funding for the charity and all its programs comes from tax-deductible donations, contributions and gifts.

For additional information on the Disabled Businesspersons Association and how you can support disabled veterans in business and the work the DBA does, contact Urban Miyares at Disabled Businesspersons Association, San Diego State University - Interwork Institute, 3590 Camino del Rio North, San Diego, CA 92108, phone (619) 594-8805, or email Urban@DisabledBusiness.com

Contact:

James Beck, Productions/Past President
PACE - TV
P.O, Box 270634
San Diego, CA 92198

Phone: (760) 945-9793

Email: James@pacetv.org

Web: www.pacetv.org