CSU students install wheelchair ramp, patio in community service project

Colorado State University has produced a video (www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3ATleS1aUs&feature=youtu.be) telling the story of one of three community projects being carried out this spring by students in CM Cares, a service-learning program in CSU’s Department of Construction Management.

CSU students are installing wheelchair access and a pergola-covered patio at the Timnath home of Jarah and Mat Grashorn, whose 7-year-old son Gavin has a brain birth defect called agenesis of the corpus callosum.

Donors from the construction industry provided equipment and materials.

The other two projects currently under way in CM Cares are:

• Providing a wheelchair-accessible entrance and ADA-approved bathroom at the Sexual Assault Victim Advocate Center in Fort Collins

• Accessibility modifications to the home of Chris Walter, including bathroom handrails, a bay window with rollout garden boxes, a new driveway and a wheelchair ramp to the backyard, to allow Walter to continue his passion for gardening

For more information on pursuing any of these stories further, contact Jeff Dodge at 970.491.4251 or [email protected].

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