Salisbury high school students help build ramp for 68-year-old resident

SALISBURY, Md. – Students from James M. Bennett High School recently helped the Chesapeake Housing Mission in building a ramp for a Salisbury resident living with multiple sclerosis.

68-year-old Bill McCrorey of Salisbury has spent the last eight years crawling out of his home and down the steps, pulling himself up into his car.

A group of Leo Club students, the Chesapeake Housing Mission, and Salisbury Lions club got together on a Friday to build a wheelchair ramp at McCrorey’s home.

“I am so excited for the ramp. This multiple sclerosis has taken its toll, and I’m not getting any younger. I am truly humbled and thankful to the Chesapeake Housing Mission and those students from James M. Bennett for doing this for me,” said McCrorey.

We’re told this ramp project was the Chesapeake Housing Mission’s 400th project. The organization’s mission is to make the homes of those less fortunate more livable and secure and provide vital home repair to low-income families in Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester Counties.