By Staff
EDWARDSBURG - The local Grandparents Program, Midwest Timber and Lions Club were thanked by the Watts Family for their wheelchair ramp.
A wheelchair ramp was desperately needed for 4-year-old Korey, who has been a victim of shaken baby syndrome since he was only 4 months old. Debbie and Glen Watts adopted their grandson after he was released from the hospital.
Pam Conner, from the Grandparents Raising Grandchildren 0-5 Program of Lewis Cass Intermediate School District in Cassopolis, were with Debbie and Korey when they tried out their new ramp.
Conner said the family is very grateful for the ramp.
Conner, who is the family facilitator/home visitor for the family, began contacting resources as soon as she was notified the family needed a ramp.
Conner contacted Midwest Timber in Edwardsburg and Doug Finley said they would donate lumber for the ramp.
Jerry Tavernier from Edwardsburg Lions Club contacted Conner and they met the same evening at the Watts residence.
Tavernier and another member of the Lions Club, Jim Devenney, began measuring and said they would build the ramp and donate the cement, nails and screws.
Tavernier, Devenney and a third member of the Edwardsburg Lions Club, Cass County Commissioner Carl Higley, worked together building the ramp. The trio brought all the tools they needed.
Debbie was so happy she cried while watching the ramp being built.