The Angel Fund's 24th Annual Walk Of Hope Kicked Off In Wakefield

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I've gone out and rated all the recycle binge and ready.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
That's ninety five year old Bill Brown. Every year for
the Angel Funds Walk of Hope around Lake Kuwana, Powet,
he collects medals to sell and fund the waterstop for walkers.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Scrap brash, copper, aluminum, whatever that also went into it
and where I could pick up money for it.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
He lost his wife to als nearly twenty four years ago.
Angel Fund President and ALS survivor himself, Richard Kennedy says
that the three and a half mile walk empowers those
who have lost to find a way and fight back.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
You know, when you're in a fight, I learned a
long time ago it's great to have people at your back,
and this is exactly that. So we're all in the
same fight.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
This's all funds research at UMAs Cham Medical School where
doctor Robert Brown Junior and his team works. Last year
there was one drug they believed could turn off an
alsgen beneficially. Now there's three. Jay Willette, a BBZ Boston's
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