Daily Archive for November 13th, 2009

I don’t usually blog about non-political things here, but since this story involves my cousin Gina, her husband Scott, and her son Colby doing a good deed, I’ll make a happy exception. It was nice to read some good news regarding such an initially discouraging story about the theft of a wheelchair from a 3-year-old boy.

…When they came outside with 3-year-old D’Mauri, his wheelchair was gone. D’Andre, his mother, Latarcia Bonds, and his grandmother, Brenda Bonds, searched the area around 75 Congress St. where they live but couldn’t find it.

It was an agonizing turn of events for the family because D’Mauri, who is developmentally delayed and cannot talk, needed the custom-made wheelchair to get to school. After learning that her insurance company wasn’t about to pay to replace the $2,800 chair, Latarcia turned to the media to make a plea to whoever took the chair to return it.

Thursday night there was a happy ending. Gina and Scott Wallace’s 6-year-old son Colby recently outgrew a similar chair that he had been using since he was a year old. Wednesday night, the East Providence couple said they saw an account of the stolen chair on Channel 12…

Late Thursday afternoon, after receiving calls all day from Rhode Islanders offering help, the Channel 12 news crew phoned Brenda Bonds and said there was a family who wanted to donate a similar chair.

When the Wallaces drove up to the house at 6:30 p.m. with the stroller-like chair, Brenda Bonds said she felt ecstatic. While the chair was a tad smaller than the one D’Mauri had been using, she said, it was a perfect replacement. “This is awesome. We’re so grateful.”…

Read More: The Providence Journal