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| The annual picnic at Ed Hunt’s Rehab Point Project had something to celebrate this year: four newly installed wheelchair-accessible picnic tables. Rehab Point is at Oxnard Beach Park in Ventura County, off Harbor Boulevard north of Channel Islands Harbor. The tables are at the head of a 900-foot paved path that curves around sand dunes to offer views of breaking waves and sunsets. The path continues across the sand as a runway of plastic mats, giving wheelchair users access to the beach.
All this is part of a project inspired by Ed Hunt, who turned a personal disappointment into a dream: to build a path to the beach for people with walkers and wheelchairs. Partly paralyzed by a stroke at age 70, he became a wheelchair user. During his recuperation, he found he could not even see the ocean, his favorite place to relax. “Ed had this vision. He was full of determination, and he wanted his dream to come true. And he wanted it for everybody,” said Hunt’s sister, Ruth Pambrun. The full text of this article is in the print edition of Coast & Ocean. |
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