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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The Rappahannock Board of Supervisors sent its committee on handicapped access back to the drawing board on Monday while committee member Richard Abell continued to give mute but eloquent testimony to the barriers the court house presents to handicapped persons.
Faced with loss of revenue sharing and the possibility of other retaliatory action for failure to comply with federal regulations on handicapped access, the board appointed a committee two months ago to study alternatives for removal of barriers at the courthouse. (The rest of Rappahannock’s buildings are deemed accessible, according to federal standards, with either no physical barriers or programs and services which can be brought to handicapped people.) Mr. Abell, who lives and farms on The Shade Road, was named to that committee. Confined by polio to a wheelchair as a young man, Mr. Abell had earlier lodged a grievance against the county for holding a public hearing on handicapped access in the courthouse, a building that is not accessible to handicapped persons.
On Monday, Supervisor Nelson Lane and Zoning Administrator John McCarthy hauled and pushed
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