SARASOTA
COUNTY - A Suncoast group wants to give the
physically
disabled a better way to get on the beach.
Beaches for
All is a non profit in Sarasota that wants to go a step
beyond
handicap parking spaces Recently, Sarasota County
unveiled
floating wheelchairs at five of its beaches, meant to
give the
physically disabled a way to get into the water.
Jane
Danielson says there's got to be something more and she's
got an idea.
She's physically disabled and says the parking
spots and
the ramps at Lido Beach are great, but the sand is as
far as she
can go without anyone's help. "We want to be able to
get people
to the beach, into the water," says Danielson.
The
executive director of Beaches For All says beach
wheelchairs
with the larger wheels can be cumbersome and
expensive,
so she's hoping through her non-profit,
she can
raise enough money to build a complex on
a Suncoast beach
that
provides a way for the physically disabled to get to the gulf on their
own.
"Whatever beach
it's at, it will be the only one
in the U.S., so it's going to be a
feather in the cap of the community
that we set
this up in," says Danielson.
