Accessible parking spaces are for employees with mobility challenges. Except when they aren’t! Businesses offer these well-defined spots that include access aisles – the striped area directly next to the accessible parking space. This area is designed to allow room for a wheelchair-accessible vehicle to deploy a ramp so that wheelchair users can enter and
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Minivan Monday: Puppy love for the Chrysler Pacifica
Wallis Brozman may use a wheelchair, but it does not limit her mobility. Through a partnership between Chrysler and BraunAbility, she can utilize a wheelchair-accessible BraunAbility Chrysler Pacifica for greater mobility and independence. Additionally, with her service dog Mork from Canine Companions for Independence, she has extra confidence leaving her house. “Without Mork by my
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‘Local Hero’ volunteer receives keys to new wheelchair-accessible Dodge Grand Caravan
Linda Stearns of suburban Chicago won’t let anything get in the way of her community volunteer efforts. Multiple Sclerosis hasn’t stopped her. Despite living with MS for the past 30 years, Stearns, 67, of Oak Lawn, Ill., has devoted most of her life to helping others. Nor has she let a 2009 breast cancer diagnosis
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