Mayors honor volunteers at annual banquet by Michael DeVault - posted Thursday, July 19th, 2012 @ 12:00 pm  E-mail Story |  Print Story  Ryan Estep was a star athlete who had just completed his junior year in high school and was verbally committed to the University of Arkansas. On his way home from a friend's house, that all changed when Estep lost control of his car and severed his spinal chord between the T2 and L1 vertebra. "I was paralyzed the moment it happened," Estep said. "I knew that it had happened." Estep delivered the account of his injuries to the more than 400 individuals who gathered at the Monroe Civic Center tuesday night for the annual Twin City Mayors' Committee on Disabilities awards banquet. ..... For the full story, subscribe to the The Ouachita Citizen's NEW E-Edition!