Tri-county agencies provide specialized care to disabled residents during natural disasters

THE VILLAGES A car accident in 1961, followed by a series of complications, forced June K. Garcia to have one of her legs amputated. She has become accustomed to using crutches, a wheelchair or a motorized scooter to get around.

Car Hits, Kills Boy On Scooter
A boy crossing a street outside his Avon-area home is fatally struck by a car.

Scooter win makes Joan more mobile
WARRNAMBOOL'S Joan Hill-Peters has asked ``why me?'' more times than she can remember in the past 15 years. She has been suffering chronic fatigue and post-polio syndrome, had both hips replaced and now needs an ankle reconstruction.

The dawn of hope
In her first Relay for Life, Linda Brinkman needed her fathers arm for support as she walked around the track.

Jockeys buy scooter for boy
It was a day filled with smiles and joyful tears after years of pain and setbacks for an Aurora boy and his family Sunday.