Vancouver veteran with ALS gets help with home remodeling ...

Vancouver's Clyde Kment found out a month and a half ago that he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease), a progressive neurological disorder that gradually impedes one's mobility and ability to speak. Shortly after, a social worker asked if he wanted help making his home accessible, enabling him to stay in it even as the disease progressed: building a wheelchair ramp, raising his garden beds so he can continue to garden, remodeling his bathroom and assisting with work around the yard.

At first, Kment was skeptical, but watching a group of 50 volunteers in orange T-shirts work together in his home and yard Oct. 3, he said, "She didn't exaggerate a thing."

The Home Depot Foundation, working in conjunction with the ALS Association of Oregon and SW Washington, sent Home Depot employees from stores all over the Portland area and as far away as Longview to assist veterans who have ALS with home improvement projects. Materials were donated by Home Depot.

Kment, 71, served in the U.S. Army for 20 years, including a two-year stretch in Vietnam.

Kment and his wife, Fujiko, also paid the volunteers' kindness forward: The bumper crop from their numerous fruit trees was more than they could eat, so volunteers picked the surplus fruit and will donate it to a local food bank.

-- Christen McCurdy
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Source: http://www.oregonlive.com/clark-county/index.ssf/2012/10/vancouver_veteran_with_als_get.html

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