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By Tim Gort | The Grand Rapids Press Follow on Twitter on April 28, 2013 at 8:18 AM With daughters Eliza, left, and Gwen, right, Tim Gort has a combined 13 years of experience pushing wheelchairs. As a father of two children with cerebral palsy, I have a combined 13 years of experience pushing wheelchairs. [...]
TRAVERSE CITY – Bay Area Transportation Authority (BATA) will host three information sessions on its new service model set to launch May 6. The new model expands service hours and reduces wait times by linking residents in more rural areas with fixed routes to and from Traverse City. Information sessions will take place at BATA’s [...]
By CAITLIN KELLY For years, Stacy Zoern, a Texas lawyer who lives alone and uses a 400-pound power wheelchair, yearned for more independence. Because of a neuromuscular condition, Ms. Zoern, 33, has never walked, and for a while drove a custom van. But the van was destroyed in a crash, and she didn’t have $80,000 [...]
BOYNE CITY — The green and white county transit buses have been transporting Charlevoix County residents for more than 30 years, but, reports transit manager Jill Drury, the number of people riding has gone up significantly in the last two years. “The growth right now that we’re seeing is — I don’t see an end [...]
WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA9)–The Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA, is very clear when it comes to service dogs. The law says people with service animals must be allowed anywhere the public is allowed. And it’s not just blind who can use a service dog. According to the ADA, “Service animals are defined as dogs that [...]
Community members in Petoskey and Charlevoix have teamed up with Disability Network to raise funds to make Petoskey State Park Beach and Whiting Park Beach accessible for everyone. The Project is a part of our “Access for Everyone” campaign, which is led by [...]
WASHINGTON—Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Senate sponsor of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP),today introduced two bills that will expand access to captioning and image narration in movie theaters and airplanes. “More than two decades have passed since the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act, [...]
BY MICHAEL WALTON mwalton@record-eagle.comTraverse City Record-Eagle TRAVERSE CITY — A new 911 service gives emergency operators and responders more information about 911 callers in Grand Traverse County. Grand Traverse County is the first county in Michigan to purchase the Smart911 software service, which lets citizens create online profiles that link a wide range of information [...]