Thanks to an outpouring of support from members of the Navarre community, a local 11-year-old boy with a rare congenital disorder can now enjoy the beach in his custom motorized beach wheelchair.
Christian Denton, who was born with Kabuki syndrome, can t talk and uses a wheelchair to get around. He loves the beach so much that his parents, Julie and Trevor, moved to Navarre from Atlanta at the beginning of March so they could take Christian to the beach as much as possible.
But the Dentons struggled getting Christian to and from the water s edge in his homemade beach wheelchair, which was fashioned from a skim board attached to a folding chair on top of a rolling wheel frame like the kind used to pull a cooler. The couple reached out to Navarre Beach Fire Rescue Chief Danny Fureigh about their plight, and Fureigh helped make Christian s beach dreams come true.
Thanks to an outpouring of support from members of the Navarre community, a local 11-year-old boy with a rare congenital disorder can now enjoy the beach in his custom motorized beach wheelchair.