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These are just a few of reasons to continue the support in battle against ALS · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: These are just a few of reasons to continue the
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  support in battle against Als. Written by Kevin Hieronymus, This
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  article is being read by an automated voice brought to
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  you by Everlett. Stacy Aber Richardson said her mother's illness
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  started as clumsiness and tripping and escalated to not being
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  able to eat, drink, move or speak. Linda Aber of
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  Sheffield passed away in twenty twenty four, within three months
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  of an official Bulber amiotrophic lateral sclerose ALS diagnosis at
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  age sixty seven. The beautiful voice of my friend Cheryl Baybedge,
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  seventy of Princeton was silenced by the disease last December.
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  Cheryl kept her strong faith to her last breath and
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  is now singing in Heaven's choir. You can help this
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  fight against this dreaded disease by supporting the Walnut five
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  thousand Run Sock for Als, also known as lou Gerrig's Disease.
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  This year's race will be called Saturday, July fourth. The
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  event has raised two hundred one thousand, three hundred and
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  twenty five dollars and eighty five cents in the past
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  fifteen years, including one hundred eighteen, four hundred and thirty
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  seven dollars and ninety seven cents since twenty twenty one,
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  with all proceeds going toward ALS research. It's definitely something
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  that needs more awareness brought up, especially since it seems
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  to be more of a common diagnosis, Linda Abers said.
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  The Ammonia Kids, Brad, Christy, Hillary and Jordan, have headed
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  up the five thousand Committee since twenty twenty one. It's
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  a personal battle for them. They've lost twenty two family members,
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  including their beloved mother jan who succumbed to ALS in
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  twenty thirteen at age fifty nine. The following are just
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  a few of the loved one with ariaties we've lost
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  to ALS. They are the reason this battle is worth
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  the fight. Laurie Donnelly, Mary Payne, Gascoyne, Don Gascoyne, Denise Gascoyne,
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  Charlie Halsey, Patricia Halsey, Leon Hula. There are five thousand
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  to six thousand Americans diagnosed each year with ALS, with
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  more than five thousand deaths each year. Roger Kaufman, Kent, Matthew, Carroll, Payne, Nurnberg,
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  Joey Nurnberg, Dan Payne, Daniel Payne, More than fifty percent
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  of ALS patients pass away within three years of their
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  initial diagnosis, while about twenty percent live for five years
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  or more. Doug Paine, Earl Pain, Ed Pain, Francis Barney Payin,
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  Harold Mick Payne, Jeff Pain. They're about thirty thousand to
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  thirty five thousand at a time living with ALS in America,
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  Jan Payne, Munier, Payin, j Pain, Joseph Paine, Melvin Paine,
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  Michael Paine. Males are slightly more likely to be affected
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  than females, though this gap narrows with advancing age. William
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  Bill Payne, Vince Stroop, Tammy Monier, Danielle Wallace. This is
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  just a small sample size of loved ones lost. Everyone
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  reading this knows a family member or friend they've lost
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  to ALS. Get in on the fight now, you can
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  make a difference. Kevin Hieronimus has been the BCR Sports
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  editor since nineteen eighty six. Contact him at Chironomous at
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  bcrnews dot com.