Scheffel Begins Rehabilitation After Dirt Bike Accident; Fundraising Begun

Life can change in an instant and no one knows that better now than Jacob Scheffel. An experienced dirt bike rider, having ridden since the age of 7 and raced since 17, Scheffel's life changed on June 12th due to an accident up at State Creek.

"It was an easy ride," Shannon Scheffel, Jacob's wife, explained. "We had just made a 23-mile ride with our three kids, along with another family (the Paulstons; whose son's bike was recently stolen and fundraising featured in the Ledger). We went for a second ride; Jacob crested a hill and came down wrong."

Shannon said that when she came up to him his...