LYNN – Last fall, Disability Commission member Nicholas Capano of Lynn went to the Lynn Woods Reservation with his mother, School Committee vice chair Patty Capano, and their English springer spaniel, Macklyn. They were not able to get very far.?We started in the parking lot and tried Great Woods Road,” Patty Capano recalled. “(We got to) where you can split, Stone Tower on the left or bear right. We did get down to the split. It was not a comfortable walk for him. He did not want to go again. It was not pleasant.”Nick Capano, 25, was born with spina bifida. He moves in a power wheelchair. He is in his second term and third year on the Disability Commission.?He?s been in a wheelchair since birth,” said his father, lawyer Mario Capano. “(Spina bifida) affects his spine, his ability to walk. He?s been in a wheelchair his entire life. He?s very bright, very outgoing. Everybody in the city knows Nick.”Now, Nick Capano is part of a new push to make part of the Lynn Woods trails handicapped-accessible.As anyone who has run in the Lynn Woods Summer Cross Country Races can attest, there are miles of trails within the reservation. Yet when Nick Capano tried to navigate a stretch of the trails, he encountered obstacles.?We shot video and took pictures of how far he could go,” Patty Capano said. “He was, like, ?I can?t do this.? We weren?t understanding of what the Woods did not have. He could not get 300 feet in.”It currently sounds like there are few, if any, options for handicapped people wishing to visit the Woods.?On the Pennybrook (Road) side of Lynn Woods, there is an older, paved path, but it?s not cleared out,” Mario Capano said. “On the other side, the Great Woods Road side, by Gannon Golf Course, none of the trails are accessible. There are no paved trails. If Nick wanted to go up the Woods or to Stone Tower, he cannot.?We?re hoping to get some of the paths approved for paving, not just for people in a wheelchair, but with other disabilities, and people with strollers, that sort of thing.”One person who has helped Nick Capano with his project is a fellow commission member, Michael Cerulli, 58.Cerulli, who joined the commission last fall, cited a possibility in two trails on the Pennybrook Road side of the Woods that have not been used in over 10 years.He said that while they do “not meet the federal handicapped-access definition,” they might be “possible for people who are disabled, in wheelchairs.”?One is an outcropping of rock, a scenic overlook,” he said. “The other is somewhat parallel, to a vernal pond that most of the year does dry up. There?s quite a bit of natural wildlife, tadpoles and frogs.”He said that “most of the work” toward refurbishing these trails involves “clearing brush,” and envisions it as an “Eagle-type project.”He added that there is an “accessible and beautiful trail, a path around the Rose Garden, with some type of stone steps that could be removed.”Cerulli, whose wife, Jamie, is Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy?s chief of staff, is a former runner and three-time veteran of the Boston Marathon. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis several months after a skiing injury and undergoing surgery on a ruptured disc.?After back surgery, I was working out too soon,” he said. “I continued to deteriorate. I was using canes and getting very scared.”He said he went from “being very athletic to confronted with MS. It?s a relapsing, remitting type. There are a baseline of sensations. I learned pretty much not to talk to people about it. I?m an attorney. I?ve managed it … I get up every day, go to work, I have two young sons. I go on the elliptical. I don?t run. I can?t take the pounding sensations in my legs.”He lost the vision in his left eye, and while he still has vision in his right eye, he said that relapses leave him “at times totally blind.”?The mayor nominated me to the Disability Commission because I?m sympathetic to the needs of handicapped people,” he said. “I love Lynn Woods. Everybod