Olney’s newest city council member, Steven Nurre, came home from a Dallas hospital last week, thanks to volunteers from the Texas Ramp Project who built a ramp at his home on Nov. 22.
The ramp will allow him to use a wheelchair while he recovers from a serious traffic accident in October that left him temporarily unable to walk unaided, his wife, Brenda, said.
Mr. Nurre attended the Nov. 25 City Council meeting via video call from his West Oak Street home, where he will continue recovering from two broken legs and other injuries from the Oct. 7 pre-dawn crash near Springtown.
Mr. Nurre, his 21-yearold daughter Emberly Nurre and Emberly’s fiance Fenn Millea, 25, were all seriously injured in the collision between Mr. Nurre’s 2012 GMC pickup truck and an asphalt paver that had been unloaded and was blocking State Highway 199, Mrs. Nurre said.
Emberly Nurre was driving her father to the Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport when the accident occurred, Mrs. Nurre said.
Mr. Nurre, 54, was on his way to North Carolina to help with hurricane relief as part of Team Rubicon, a veteran-led humanitarian crisis response organization. Mr. Nurre said he wanted to remain in the Nov. 5 race for City Council, and won the special election for the unexpired term of former Councilmember Harrison Wellman. That term expires in May.
The City Council discussed how to swear in Mr. Nurre at his home – a ceremony that will require a notary public and a witness, Mayor Rue Rogers said.
The Olney Enterprise, December 05, 2024