A WHEEL GOOD DEED WOMAN LEADS EFFORTS TO HELP MAN GET NEW WHEELCHAIR.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE - Sometimes good things come in big packages. For Javier Torres, his good thing came in a bus. In front of the Antelope Valley Mall The Antelope Valley Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Palmdale, California. Opened in September, 1990, its buildings take up around 1 million square feet (90,000 m²). Its physical main building, parking lots, and ring road businesses encompass an area a bit less than 0. , the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Transportation Authority, working in conjunction with the organization CAN DO, which helps disabled individuals, fulfilled a quest of several months and delivered to Torres a brand new wheelchair, decorated with two red ribbons red ribbon n. An emblem, badge, or rosette made of red ribbon that is awarded as the second prize in a competition. . ``Several months ago, (Mr.) Torres contacted us because he was not able to board the bus. His wheelchair didn't have any brakes. His wheelchair was in extremely poor shape,'' said Shirley Easley, marketing and customer relations manager for the AVTA AVTA Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity . ``It was put together with glue and spit.'' Easley visited Torres after his phone call and found him homebound home·bound adj. Restricted or confined to home, as of an invalid. . She put Torres in touch with Alison Thierry, executive director of Center for Adaptive Needs Delivering Options or CAN DO. Easley and Thierry looked for a way to get Torres a new wheelchair, eventually obtaining a Jewish Community Foundation grant of nearly $2,200. Meanwhile, the AVTA used Dial-A-Ride vans to transport Torres, who has no health insurance. The new wheelchair has a collapsible back, adjustable arms, an interlocking interlocking /in·ter·lock·ing/ (-lok´ing) closely joined, as by hooks or dovetails; locking into one another. interlocking Obstetrics A rare complication of vaginal delivery of twins; the 1st brake, and large wheels that are collapsible so it can fit into a small car. Easley said the AVTA is not in the wheelchair business but if an opportunity came up to help another rider it would. CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1 -- 3 -- color) Thanks to a Jewish Community Foundation grant, Javier Torres traded in his broken-down wheelchair, which couldn't go aboard the bus, for a brand new one. (4 -- color) Javier Torres is helped into his new wheelchair by Alison Thierry, executive director of CAN-DO, and Michael Deatherage, a Torres family friend. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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