For 12-year-old Ashley Whitney, riding a bicycle wasn’t something she ever expected to be able to do with a disability that leaves her without the balance or strength necessary.
Her sixth-grade Oak Heights teacher Kathy Ives set a plan into motion to change that.
Each year, both sixth-grade classes at Oak Heights travel to Bend to study geology. They brought a wheelchair along for Ashley as they took a mile-long hike through the lava lands…