GSE breaks new ground

...offered more than the opportunity to compete in a sailboat race, summit a mountain, and meet with other law enforcement officers. It was also a once-in-a-lifetime chance to participate in Rotary's first-ever all-wheelchair GSE. A former patrol officer from Prescott, Arizona, Martin became paralyzed from the chest down following a 2005 vehicle accident, but continues to work for the police department in the dispatch center. "The whole point [of the GSE] was to dissolve the perception of people in wheelchairs," Martin explains. "Just because we're in wheelchairs doesn't mean that we can't do things that able-bodied people can do." The idea for an all-wheelchair GSE started two years ago when Charlie Tegarden, 2008-09 governor of District 5490, struck up a conversation with Darol Kubacz in an airport. Read the rest of the story here.