Boone Bartlome of Kuna, Idaho, will be presented on Saturday with a battery-powered vehicle from Pennsylvania-based Track Chair company. 

Bartlome lost his ability to walk after being injured in a high school football game.

The club raised more than $15,000 for the highly mobile unit during its annual winter fundraising banquet. S-R columnist Doug Clark highlighted the effort in January.

Jamie Belknap, a recent graduate from Eastern Washington University with a major in Early Childhood Education, organized the Track Chair portion of the fundraiser for the club. 

Belknap said she wanted to raise awareness for “the young athletes that were outdoors with their buddies at one time doing what most of us take for granted and now can’t even get on a dock to watch fishing” because typical wheelchairs have limited mobility.