Noon: PET Project Spreads Mobility

Thanks to a small Spokane nonprofit, 1,220 people in 95 countries have received the gift of mobility. Since 2005, Inland Northwest PET Project has been creating and distributing Personal Energy Transporters from a hillside shop in Colbert. A PET is a hand-pedaled vehicle made of lumber and steel. The sturdy parts and solid-core rubber wheels provide transportation in terrain that would prove difficult for traditional wheelchairs to navigate. Dick Carpenter, 72, founded Inland Northwest PET Project after reading a blurb about the international organization in the newspaper/Cindy Hval, SR. More here . (Colin Mulvany’s SR photo: In Colbert, volunteers Dick Carpenter, left, and Maurice Feryn assemble a PET, a three-wheel, hand-cranked vehicle that will be shipped to Third World countries)

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