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First of all, I apologize if you have received more than one email from me about our upcoming walk to raise funds for the ALS Association.
You are receiving this email for one or more of several reasons:
* You are a friend or a family member of Nina Lamanno-Auker or Matt Auker
* You have done business with or know Comfort Keepers of Altamonte Springs
* You know either Nina or Matt from: Spring Valley, St. Mary Magdalen, Florida Hospital, Central Florida Regional Hospital, Porter Paints, Louisville, Orlando, Davidson College, USF, Bishop Moore Catholic High School or UCF.
ALS is also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease and Nina, my lovely wife of 24 1/2 years has it. There is no cure. No one knows why an ALS patient's nerves die and their muscles atrophy. Some people live 20 years with ALS, others are gone within a year of diagnosis. There is only 1 medication that is approved for treating ALS and it is estimated that it lengthens the life of the ALS patient by about 3 months. 5,000 people a year in the US are diagnosed with ALS and about 30,000 people have it right now.
You can read more about Nina on my personal page at: web.alsa.org/goto/mauker
I am walking with many of Nina's friends in the ALS Walk on Friday night, April 16th around Lake Eola in downtown Orlando. Last April, about 200 friends of Nina’s gathered for the 2009 ALS Orlando walk. You can see some of the pictures here: picasaweb.google.com/mattauker/ALSWalkOrlando2009?feat=directlink. Dave Wheeler at Bishop Moore Catholic High School even rescheduled a varsity baseball game so that there wouldn’t be any conflicts for many of our friends. Our son Tyler plays on the varsity baseball team at Bishop Moore.
I am asking for your help!
Sign up to walk with me on April 16th. You can click on the NINA’S HIGH ROLLERS link below. If you sign up, we ask that you raise $ 25 in donations from other people to sponsor your walk. If you walked last year, please wear your teal NINA’S HIGH ROLLERS t-shirt. If you need a t-shirt contact me or Cynthia Dades and we’ll make sure you get one.
** If you can't walk, sponsor me by clicking on my personal page below or sponsor any of the other walkers signed up to walk on the NINA’S HIGH ROLLERS team. Please understand that any size donation is very much appreciated.
** My ALS personal page is set up to accept credit card donations. If you’d rather donate using a check, make it payable to The ALS Association Florida Chapter and mail the check to:
Matt Auker
Comfort Keepers
650 Douglas Ave., Suite 1027
Altamonte Springs, FL 32714
Feel free to contact me on my cell phone: (407) 466-8290. I also do text messages on my cell. Email me at m@auker.com or altamonte@comfortkeepers.com twitter: @mattauker, facebook: Matt Auker
Cynthia Dades is the captain of the NINA’S HIGH ROLLERS team. She can be reached at (407) 257-7799 or dades5@embarqmail.com
Thanks for reading this message and hopefully we will see you at the walk Friday evening, April 16th.
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