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Anne Guthrie’s addition to the Lowcountry started with an abominable car wreck.
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The Little Red Dog | the little red dogIt was a accepted day added than 30 years ago. She was in Atlanta, on her way to assignment as a Delta flight attendant.
In an instant, Anne was larboard with a activity of affliction — connected headaches, close pain, aught close mobility, disability to drive, and added acuteness to babble and ablaze colors.
She coped with it the absolute 23 years she lived on Lady’s Island; she and her husband, Louis, were amid the aboriginal association of the neo-traditional Newpoint neighborhood.
But that’s not what bodies remembered back Anne Guthrie died of blight at 72 on Sunday.
They bethink her Little Red Dog Foundation, called for her dachshund, Stephanie.
It’s a total-volunteer nonprofit afterwards a penny of overhead, said its president, Deb Libaire. Its mission is to actualize advancement and ability for the disabled with distinctively able ameliorative three-wheeled cycles.
Since 2005 — with advice from a lot of bounded people, businesses, schools, therapists, doctors, aboriginal responders and the Kiwanis Club — the foundation has accustomed abroad about 500 cycles in a five-county area.
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The Little Red Dog Raises $3,000 For Rescue Efforts At "Pups At ... | the little red dogIt started by accident. A acquaintance of the Guthries had an adult, three-wheeled bike. Anne approved it and pronounced, “I feel free.”
Louis bought her one, and she bound saw that it could accomplish a lot of bodies feel free. The Guthries absitively not to buy Christmas ability for anniversary other, but instead absorb the money on three-wheeled bikes for others.
“So we aloof did it,” Louis recalls.
They told the adventure in their Christmas card. Bodies beatific $5 or $10. If it was $25, they anticipation it was a windfall.
They got abundant money to buy two developed cycles and four for children. They were alien to the Sam’s Point Fire Station on a Friday. Over the weekend, firefighters and EMS workers volunteered to put them together. Anybody watched anxiously as the aboriginal recipients came into the bay. As Louis recalls, a little boy confused in with his ambler and squealed, “My bike! My bike!”
All the volunteers say the looks on the faces of accouchement gets them hooked.
“It aloof grew,” Louis said.
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The foundation’s mission account says that “use of the cycles can advance circulation, access anatomy strength, aggrandize ambit of motion and advance endurance, all of which can advance to added self-esteem and animosity of ability and accomplishment. Achievement and adventuresomeness follow.”
The foundation is now a bounded affiliate of the civic AMBUCS accommodating alignment based in North Carolina. It gets AmTrykes from them, advantageous for them with clandestine donations and grants.
They accept accustomed bikes to blood-soaked warriors — one time outfitting 13 veterans in boondocks for the Lt. Dan Weekend.
The 200th aeon went to bounded Marine Staff Sgt. Pablo Barios afterwards his aboriginal 18 operations from an access at the end of his fourth bout of assignment in Iraq.
Anne told about it in an article for the paper.
“I achievement Pablo knows how abundant we all acknowledge what he has sacrificed for our country,” she wrote. “A simple acknowledge you is not abundant for what Pablo has done for us, so I will say a actor times over, ‘Thank you, Pablo.’ ”
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The Little Red Dog Raises $3,000 For Rescue Efforts At "Pups At ... | the little red dogAnother developed almsman is apparent a lot in Beaufort’s Northwest Quadrant. Mark Wiggs, whom anybody knows as “Gizmo,” is now on his third aeon from the Little Red Dog Foundation. He’s put hundreds of afar on them.
“He absent the use of both legs back he was 13,” said his mentor, Russ Berry. Previously, he was accepting about on a bicycle, propped up by his crutch.
Still, Anne’s acquaintance and acquaintance Harriett Hilton said there’s added to her adventure than the appropriate cycles.
“What her doctors, accompany and ancestors charge bethink is that cancer, added disabilities, and alike her afterlife do not stop the force that was Anne’s benevolence and hope.
“Those two factors are constants displayed every time a disabled adolescent or developed rides a donated Little Red Dog cycle, every time one acquaintance comforts another, and whenever an alone alcove above their own affliction or shortcomings to affect others and accomplish Beaufort and the apple a added absolute place.”
Little Red Dog Foundation
Address: 55 Woodland Ridge Circle, Beaufort, SC 29907.
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