'Lou Gehrig's Disease Awareness Day' is proclaimed at Borough Hall
By NICHOLAS RIZZI
ADVANCE STAFF WRITER
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Seventy years ago yesterday, Yankee Lou Gehrig was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Today, the disease, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, counts about 30,000 victims nationwide. Among them is Robert Roddy, 74, whose granddaughter, Katy Donchik of Grymes Hill, is waging a fight against ALS.
She read "A Warrior," her poem about Roddy, at yesterday's proclamation of "ALS-Lou Gehrig's Disease Awareness Day" by Borough President James P. Molinaro.
Read full story here.
To visit the ALS Association Homepage and learn more about ALS, click here.
By NICHOLAS RIZZI
ADVANCE STAFF WRITER
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Seventy years ago yesterday, Yankee Lou Gehrig was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Today, the disease, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, counts about 30,000 victims nationwide. Among them is Robert Roddy, 74, whose granddaughter, Katy Donchik of Grymes Hill, is waging a fight against ALS.
She read "A Warrior," her poem about Roddy, at yesterday's proclamation of "ALS-Lou Gehrig's Disease Awareness Day" by Borough President James P. Molinaro.
Read full story here.
To visit the ALS Association Homepage and learn more about ALS, click here.
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