$7,000 Donated To Elevator Project For Needy Family

Robert Conrad, Past Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus Bishop Minihan Council 202 of Haverhill, MA assisted a Haverhill family in purchasing and installing a wheel chair elevator lift for their 8 year old child that was born with Dandy Walker Syndrome and Cerebal Palsy. The outside wheel chair lift was necessary since the front and back doors of the house are ten steps to their deck. The land around the house is flat and was not suitable to install a ramp to the five-foot height of the deck. The two photo’s show the outside wheel chair elevator lift raising five feet from the ground to the deck of the house. This elevator has been a God sent during this winter for the family and small childcare helpers in getting the child up to the house doors. 

The Knights of Columbus Council 202 of Haverhill, MA voted at their council meeting to pay $7000.00 with grant money from the Massachusetts State Council charity fund. The council sent the $7000.00 check to Elevator Technologies Limited of Burlington, MA for the balance owed on the installation and purchase of a wheel chair elevator lift.

This is the first outside wheel chair lift that the Knights of Columbus have assisted a family in purchasing and installing in the State of MA.

Each year the Bishop Minihan Council 202, participated in the K of C “Tootsie Roll Drive” designed to help God’s Special children – those who are intellectually disability, regardless of age, and children with physical handicap who have not reached their 20th birthday. The tootsie roll funds collected from all state councils go to the K of C Massachusetts State Council charity fund. The State Council collects and distributes approximately $360,000.00 each year from the Tootsie Roll drive. The Bishop Minihan Council 202 is very pleased that the State approved a grant for $7000.00.

The Bishop Minihan Council 202 appreciates the council members who assisted in the Tootsie Roll Drive and the residents of the greater Haverhill community for their generous contributions each year to the Tootsie Roll drive.