Before last week, a trip outside for Cynthia Matusky meant a roll of the dice on whether she’d trip and fall into her gravel front yard.

Now a sturdy wooden ramp allows her something most of us take for granted: The ability to easily enter and exit her home.

“That is going to make it so I can get off the porch and down into the yard without falling,” she said.

The new ramp, built at no cost to Matusky, is thanks to the King/Snohomish Counties Master Builders Association “Rampathon” program, which each year selects worthy recipients for a new accessibility ramp at their homes at no charge, built by a local building company willing to offer their time and labor.

This year, that local builder was Meade Building Company, and Wednesday, July 30, owner Drew Meade led a team of about 15 emplo

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