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Ever since Battle Creek native Matt

Krimmel became paralyzed from

the chest down two years ago as the

result of a snowmobile accident, the

current Marshall resident has needed

help in a variety of ways to live as

normal of a life as possible.

Now, thanks to a new-fangled and

high-tech golf cart available for use

only at Binder Park Golf Course

(BPGC) in Battle Creek by anyone

with a similar or other type of dis-

ability, the 60-year-old Krimmel

• a longtime golfer and Lakeview
  Lounge league player at BPGC –
  wants to flip that help switch around.
  These days, Krimmel said, he
  wants to get the word out about
  BPGC’s new VertaCat golf cart.
  Krimmel – a 1981 graduate of
  Lakeview High – has two rods going
  down his back after severing his T-
  vertebrae during his snowmobile
  accident.
  But he is able to play golf again
  using the VertaCat.
  “I use the cart regularly now
  ... and I’d really like to help get
  somebody or maybe even a lot of
  people with disabilities out of their
  chairs at home and back out on the
  golf course – if golf is something
  they’re missing now with their dis-
  ability – by mainly letting the com-
  munity know that Binder Park has a
  VertaCat cart,” Krimmel said.
  “I’m not a doctor, and I’m not a
  golf teacher. I’m just a guy who is
  disabled who has used the new cart,
  and a guy who would even be will-
  ing to come out and help others use
  it and show them what the cart’s all
  about – if I’m able to.
  “But the main thing is, I just want
  people with disabilities around the
  area to know that the VertaCat cart is
  available for them at Binder Park.”
  More Information About
  The VertaCat Cart
  What’s the special mobility cart in
  question – the VertaCat – all about,
  and how did Binder Park acquire
  one? Read on ...
  Thanks to extended efforts by
  Krimmel, Binder Park GC man-
  ager and head PGA professional

VertaCat mobility cart now

available at Binder Park GC

Battle Creek native Matt Krimmel,

paralyzed from the chest down as

the result of a snowmobile accident

two years ago, is back playing golf

again thanks to the use of a VertaCat

golf cart that’s available locally and

regionally at only Binder Park Golf

Course in B.C. (Shopper News photo by

Will Kowalski)

Ron Osborne and the City of Battle

Creek, the VertaCat is now on the

scene at the municipal (city-owned)

Binder Park links expanse located

at 7255 B Dr. S (binderparkgolf.

com/269-979-8250).

The VertaCat – “A mobility golf

cart designed for disabled individu-

als, wounded veterans and others

with mobility challenges” according

to the machine’s website vertacat.

com – is the most advanced mobility

cart of the main three on the market

See VERTACAT on 3