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Local Disabled American Veterans chapter gives back
Area group working to distribute electric wheelchairs to residents in need
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Dan Sievright, a member of the Disabled American Veterans, talks Wednesday about the wheelchairs donated to give to those in the community who need help at a warehouse where the DAV is storing them. - photo by Erin O. Smith
Electric wheelchairs are scattered through an area of the Gainesville warehouse, some intact and some clearly needing parts. But that’s OK by the Disabled American Veterans’ Gainesville-Hall Chapter 17. The group is thankful to have the chairs and is working to get them all operating and to people — not just disabled vets — who need them.