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	HANDICAPPED HEROISM Great Bend family hopes to win van, raise handicapped awareness


	Eisenhower Elementary School third graders Brenna Bownes, left, and Haleigh Ringo, right, read to classmate Trenton Lane in the EES library Wednesday afternoon. Lane suffers from a neurological disorder and his family is taking part in a contest to win a wheelchair lift-equipped van. View Larger View » < >

Heroism has many definitions. A look inside the Eisenhower Elementary School library Wednesday afternoon revealed several of those. Hero one – Trenton Lane, a 9-year-old third grader who suffers from the crippling neurological disorder lissencephaly. Confined to a wheelchair, he’s forced to rely on his teachers, parents and schoolmates to do just about everything for him. He’s learning and, by his standards, his quality of life improves. “The doctors said I didn’t have a very ...

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