Garden City native heads off on a 3,500-mile cross country cycling trek today to promote a unique wheelchair mission that brings mobility to poor people with physical disabilities.
Dr. Mike Bayer, a 1969 graduate of Garden City High School, and Don Schoendorfer, co-founders of Free Wheelchair Mission, left Reader's Digest's headquarters in Pleasantville, N.Y., this morning on a journey they say is a "grass roots educational and fundraising campaign." During the bicycling tour, they'll promote the message of the special wheelchair, which consists of a plastic seat with mountain-bike wheels, in every city, town and hamlet they pass through.
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