Canfield Lions and church members build ramp

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Neighbors | Submitted.Members of the Canfield Lions Club and several church members worked together to build a ramp for Cinnamon Coulter.

The Canfield Lions along with several members of the Canfield United Methodist Church recently constructed a ramp at the home of Cinnamon Coulter, who uses a wheel chair and is legally blind. The ramp is necessary for her to exit the home for a variety of reasons, to include going to therapy sessions. Coulter, who is also a Canfield Lion, doesn’t let her disabilities keep her from living a full life.

Canfield Lions Don Kwolek and Chuck Tieche [also members of the Church] along with four other church members have been kept very busy during the month of November building the wheel chair ramp. The men from the church were Don Trotter, Dale Stryffeler, David Royer and Don Christensen. Trotter, who is also an expert on building ramps, provided the building plans and materials list. Lion John Africa and Lion Kwolek worked together taking care of the organizing of the project, shopping for prices, getting the necessary permits and making sure everything was approved. Since the weather in the middle of November was bad, work was slowed and sometimes postponed. But early in December the job was finally completed.

It was decided to build a wooden ramp because the cost of a prefabricated ramp can run as high as $5,000. Once the plans were drawn up, Lion John Africa visited several home improvement stores to get an estimate of the building materials. The lowest estimate was $2,250 from the Austintown Home Depot Store. They donated all but $1,000 of the cost of materials. It should also be noted that the Boardman Home Depot Store donated the use of the equipment needed to dig the post holes needed for the ramp.