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Local inventors' wheelchair glider created to help dementia patients

A chance comment by a customer to a local merchant eventually resulted in a patented product now being used at Sweet Nursing Home in Chinook. Kelcey Diemert, a local pharmacist, said, "About 17 years ago Russell Benson came into the pharmacy and said, "I was just visiting some of my buddies at the nursing home. They were all rocking away in their wheelchairs but weren't going any place. You should invent a wheelchair that rocks."

Diemert shared the idea with John Iverson, a classmate when the two attended high school in Chester. Describing Iverson as 'very mechanical,' Diemert said, "John was,...

 
 
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