| Community Bulletin Board
CARnival, a benefit for Meals on Wheels, will be from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Arbor Acres. There will be bearded ladies, Siamese twins, jugglers and a band. For more information, e-mail woestj@earthlink.net. Piedmont planning group to hold byways workshop The Piedmont Triad Rural Planning Organization will have a workshop on scenic byways from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday in the Davidson County commissioners' meeting room. Jesse Day, a regional planner with the Piedmont Triad Council of Governments, will lead the workshop. For more information, call 249-7256. University Women group will meet Thursday The local chapter of the American Association of University Women will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Polo Park Recreation Center. Dr.
A story of survival: Hope gives strength to family of one injured ...
WOODBURN, Ore. - On the wall in the basement bedroom Jared and Amy Nelson share - his hospital bed snug up against her quilt-covered queen - hangs this cross-stitched message: "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."
That simple, framed sentence holds a truth that Amy has learned to live in the year since a van full of Utah State University agriculture students returning from a field trip crashed near Tremonton.
Eight classmates and their instructor died Sept. 26, 2005. Jared Nelson and another student, Robbie Petersen, survived.
While Petersen is back at USU, Jared, who turns 23 on Sunday, spends his days in a wheelchair, being ferried to doctors and therapists from Portland to Salem, Ore.
SCAT cuts make disabled into unwilling homebodies
Sheila Trexler's parents live on the opposite side of Guilford County from her home at Bell House, a center for disabled adults near the old Carolina Circle Mall on Summit Avenue. But they might as well live on the other side of the world.
"I'm only getting home once a year because I have no way to get there," she said.
Trexler can't visit her parents' home because it sits outside - just outside - the official city limits, a point beyond which the SCAT bus she uses for transportation will not venture. Instead her parents visit her at Bell House and sometimes they meet closer to town, at the Wal-Mart on Wendover Avenue or the Four Seasons Mall.
Trexler, like many of the other Bell House residents, uses a motorized wheelchair to get around. Her disability hasn't kept her from securing a job at Wal-Mart, where she works three or four times a week, or participating at Reedy Fork Baptist Church.
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