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NEWS RELEASE

ALS CANADA

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As you schedule your commitments for the upcoming months, I am hopeful you will accept this invitation to attend the upcoming WALK for ALS in Sault Ste. Marie on Saturday, Jun. 3.

This annual fundraising event for the ALS Society of Canada brings the community together to show its support for people living with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), honour those who have passed away, and share in the hope for a future where ALS is a treatable, not terminal disease.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease, or motor neuron disease) is a disease that gradually paralyzes people because the brain is no longer able to communicate with the muscles of the body that we are typically able to move at will.

Over time, as the muscles of the body break down, someone living with ALS will lose the ability to walk, talk, eat, swallow, and eventually breathe.  Approximately 80 per cent of people with ALS die within two to five years of being diagnosed. There are no effective treatments for ALS and no cure.

Funds raised through the WALK are used by the ALS Society of Canada to support people living with ALS and fund research with the potential to make ALS treatable, not terminal. We hope you will agree that this is a cause worthy of demonstrating your support for. Details for the event are as follows:

Date:                Saturday, Jun. 3, 2017
Location:          The Roberta Bondar Park
Time:                Opening remarks at 10:30 a.m. WALK begins at 11 a.m.
Attendees:       Approximately 200 people are expect

www.walkforals.ca

Also a large crowd from Dubreuilville and Wawa will be travelling here to support Eddy Lefrançois who was diagnosed with ALS 25 years ago. He and his team have already begun a campaign to raise $25k for 25 years of ALS. Already over $22k has been raised from the northern community.

His story and details listed here.

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