Getting on the bus in the morning is a lot more enjoyable for a Westerly boy who uses a wheelchair to get around thanks to the kindness of the construction class at Westerly High School.
Every morning, Monday through Friday, 5-year-old Ryder Kilam heads outside to wait for the bus to pick him up to take him to Dunn's Corners Elementary School.
Ryder can’t walk.
Every morning his parents push him outside to the end of their driveway.
“With Ryder being in a wheelchair, unfortunately it’s about 75 feet from our house to the bus,” said Ryder’s Dad, Tim Kilam. “He’s not the typical child that can run out when the bus comes.”
Initially, the Kilam family setup a homemade area at the end of their driveway to keep Ryder sheltered while waiting for the bus.
“We ended up having an old patio umbrella standing out here to keep him dry but with the wind blowing and stuff it just didn’t work,” said Kilam. “So we decided to reach out to the community, we actually put a post on Facebook looking for friends that maybe new somebody that had one that they were no longer using.”
The request reached the Construction Technology class at Westerly High School...READ MORE