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Published June 24, 2010, 12:00 AM

Invention


David Braaten of rural Sunburg demonstrates the lift he invented to help give people a boost out of a wheelchair. The invention, called “The Helper,” won him a gold medal at this month’s Minnesota Inventors Congress in Redwood Falls. It was also named the best health care or medical invention and earned the second-place award from Minnesota AgrAbility Project.

(Tribune photos by Carolyn Lange)

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