Category Archives: Track Chairs

Wounded Veteran Receives New Tracked Wheelchair from Hotes Foundation. For 12 years retired US Army Corporal Jonathan Merchant hadn’t ventured into his backyard. Confined to a conventional wheelchair, the furthest he could go was a narrow strip of concrete just off his patio. Resigned to the situation, he thought that’s how it would always be, until...

He’s had neighbors pull him out with tractors and his wife winch him out of the backyard with their Chevy Blazer. Four times, veteran Wilbur Clifton has been stranded, his conventional wheelchair stuck in the mud with no one around to help for hours. “Once, I got stuck right off the driveway,” he said, “I...

To boldly go where no ‪wheelchair has gone before. The Hotes Foundation is proud to announce it delivers another Track Chair to a deserving ‪‎veteran‬. SPC Perry Young, ‪‎USArmy‬, attached to Fort Stewart 3rd Infantry Division was injured while on foot patrol in Wardak Province, Afghanistan, when a suicide bomber blew up a car where his...

Just in time for the ‪‎4th of July‬. Wounded ‪veteran‬ Sgt. Luis Lopez gets his very own Hotes Foundation Track Chair! On this important holiday celebrating U.S. independence, the Hotes Foundation thought it fitting we honor wounded veteran Sgt. Lois Lopez by delivering him his very own track chair! While on duty in Afghanistan, a series of...