Jeep-ers! Birthday parade honors sight-impaired teen
Jacob Reindl crouches as he folds up his cane and waits for a parade of vehicles -- most Jeeps -- to pass by his Dorothy Street house to commemorate his 15th birthday. Reindl wears a blue helmet to protect his head because a portion of his skull was removed in order to extract a baked potato-sized tumor from his forehead in 2019. As a result of the surgery, however, Reindl is now mostly blind.
Charles H. Featherstone
From the left: Brandi Shelton, Heidi Larsen, Jacob Reindl and his mother Coralee Ramm, along with Paislie Larsen and her sister Avery, stand and wave as motorists pass by Reindl’s house to celebrate his 15th birthday Sunday.
Jacob Reindl waves at passersby on Sunday.
From the left: Brandi Shelton, Heidi Larsen, Jacob Reindl and his mother Coralee Ramm, along with Paislie Larsen and her sister Avery, stand and wave as motorists pass by Reindl’s house to celebrate his 15th birthday Sunday.
Drivers from across the area gather in a vacant field along Dorothy Street across from Jacob Reindl's house as part of the birthday drive-by on Sunday. "It's a good opportunity to do this for people who can't get out," said Noah Retallic, a welder from Ephrata.
Coralee Ramm stands with her son, Jacob Reindl, as they wait for the birthday convoy to drive by. Nearly 120 vehicles from across the region dove past the Reindl home last Sunday to honor his 15th birthday.
MOSES LAKE — It’s become a thing in the last year: birthday drive-by parades.
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