‘I Still Can’t Stop Smiling’: Hunter With Cerebral Palsy Gifted ATV Wheelchair After Guides Host Fundraiser

MONTEVIDEO, Minn. (WCCO) — Hunting play is upon us, but for immoderate radical getting to a duck unsighted oregon a cervid basal isn’t that easy. Thanks to immoderate kind-hearted individuals, 1 huntsman who struggles a spot much than others tin present bask his favourite hobby without arsenic overmuch frustration.

“I conscionable similar the caller aerial and being retired with friends and family,” says Lance Tebben of Montevideo. It doesn’t substance what benignant of hunting it is, Lance is each in. Born with cerebral palsy, helium rapidly developed a emotion for the outdoors.

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“I’ve gotten a cervid each twelvemonth I’ve been out, and past twelvemonth I got a 14-point buck,” helium says.

But if there’s 1 happening holding Lance back, it’s that his wheelchair wasn’t truly made for hunting. Guides propulsion him crossed each kinds of unsmooth terrain. “Just trying to propulsion Lance successful this seat here, it was conscionable truly hard. That’s wherefore we said, hey, let’s effort and bash thing for the kid,” says Chuck Ellingson, of Watson Hunting Camp.

So they did.

A fundraiser to rise wealth for an all-terrain powered wheelchair took disconnected faster than anyone could person imagined. In a abbreviated magnitude of time, radical from crossed the country donated much than $13,000. And connected Thursday morning, Lance yet got his caller ride.

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“Awesome, helium had a grin from receptor to ear,” says Lowell Tebben, Lance’s dad.

“I’m thankful to each the radical that donated and businesses and everything. Thanks for making this hap for him,” adds Pam Tebben, Lance’s mom.

“Here we are contiguous delivering a seat to Lance, each based disconnected a dream,” declares Nathan Rud of Action Manufacturing, the institution that made the chair. “This is 100% off-road. There isn’t overmuch that’s going to halt it.”

Lance’s caller seat runs astir similar a snowmobile. On Saturday, he’ll instrumentality it connected its archetypal hunting travel erstwhile helium takes portion successful a cervid hunt for radical with disabilities. Now, it’ll beryllium the guides’ crook to effort and support up with him.

“I was truthful blessed erstwhile I heard they were getting 1 of these for me. It’s beauteous awesome,” says Lance. “It makes maine consciousness similar I’m precise important. I couldn’t halt smiling and I inactive can’t halt smiling.”

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Lance wanted to convey everyone who donated, including hunting usher Stanton Kelley who got the thought for the fundraiser. He came each the mode up from Texas to instrumentality Lance hunting. Kelley, Ellingson and Bob Lauritsen are hoping to rise wealth for a 2nd powered wheelchair to support astatine the Watson Hunting Camp for anyone who needs to usage it.