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The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge continues to make its way through East Niagara, today landing on East Niagara Post's Heather N. Grimmer and Scott Leffler, who took the challenge this afternoon at Market Street Art Studios, 247 Market St.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) — commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease — is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. With voluntary muscle action progressively affected, patients in the later stages of the disease may become totally paralyzed. The progressive degeneration of the motor neurons in ALS eventually leads to their death.
Most commonly, ALS strikes people between the ages of 40 and 70, and as many as 30,000 Americans have the disease at any given time.
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge asks people to donate money to the ALS Association or raise awareness by dumping ice water over their heads and passing the challenge on.
Nominated by Simon Chavers, general manager of the Pleasant Valley Tavern, Grimmer and Leffler each got doused with five gallons of ice water from a second-story window of the art studios — Grimmer's photography and graphic design studio.
Chavers dumped one of the buckets — the one that soaked Grimmer, while Russ Halstead of Lockport Art Co dumped the bucket on Leffler. The buckets were supplied by Molinaro's Ristorante. ENP columnist George Root took the video, which has been posted to YouTube and ENP Contributing Photographer Stephen M. Wallace snapped photos.
The pair then nominated the staff and volunteers of LCTV, as well as Tim Schmitt and the rest of the staff from WLVL.
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Russ Halstead and Simon Chavers dump five gallon buckets of ice water on Heather
N. Grimmer and Scott Leffler this afternoon at Market Street Art Studios. (PHOTOS
BY STEPHEN M. WALLACE / CONTRIBUTOR)
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) — commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease — is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. With voluntary muscle action progressively affected, patients in the later stages of the disease may become totally paralyzed. The progressive degeneration of the motor neurons in ALS eventually leads to their death.
Most commonly, ALS strikes people between the ages of 40 and 70, and as many as 30,000 Americans have the disease at any given time.
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge asks people to donate money to the ALS Association or raise awareness by dumping ice water over their heads and passing the challenge on.
Nominated by Simon Chavers, general manager of the Pleasant Valley Tavern, Grimmer and Leffler each got doused with five gallons of ice water from a second-story window of the art studios — Grimmer's photography and graphic design studio.
Chavers dumped one of the buckets — the one that soaked Grimmer, while Russ Halstead of Lockport Art Co dumped the bucket on Leffler. The buckets were supplied by Molinaro's Ristorante. ENP columnist George Root took the video, which has been posted to YouTube and ENP Contributing Photographer Stephen M. Wallace snapped photos.
The pair then nominated the staff and volunteers of LCTV, as well as Tim Schmitt and the rest of the staff from WLVL.
From July 29 through today, the ALS Association has received $70.2 million in donations compared to $2.5 million during the same time period last year. Donations have come from existing donors and 1.3 million new donors.
There's more photos from today's challenge here.
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| Grimmer got all five gallons ... while it appears Leffler deflected some of his in Grimmer's direction. |
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