Mary's Fundraising Page

Dear Friends, Family, Colleagues, Neighbors, and Friends-of-friends,

The A Cure is Coming ALS TDI 5k and ALS Awareness walk will be held this year on May 5th.

Please go to my team page and join teamMARY'S MERRY MARAUDERS

Our goal is to have at least 100 team members and team supporters raise $5,000 for ALS research at ALS TDI.

Anastasia, Corey, Clare, and Mike

MARY'S MERRY MARAUDERS are joining together to support Corey Reich's COREY'S CRUSADE and the other young folks with ALS who have banded together as YFALS, the Young Faces of ALS, to promote ALS awareness and raise funds for ALS research at TDI. These young people are an inspiration to all of us, for they have not let ALS dampen their spirits or to define their lives.

Here is my call to action, with thanks to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, whose poem The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere still echoes in the air in Concord and Lexington, Massachusetts.

The Daylight Marauders of Far and Near

Listen my friends and you shall hear

Of runners and walkers far and near,

On the 5th of May in twenty twelve,

Men and ladies and kids alive

Will gather together to raisethe cheer,

Those with ALS listen and hear

A Cure is Coming! Never Fear!

I tell you my friend, " If we all will march

On land or sea from our towns that day,

Hanga banner aloft in Lexington Green

Donsneakers and T-shirtsasa rallying cry

Walk/run if by land, and swim if by sea

And I on the Lexington Green shall be

Ready to shout and spread the word

Through everytown and village and farm

For Mary's Marauders to be up and arm."

Mary's Marauders are merry and fierce

Determined to wipe ALS out soon.

Scientists toiling at TDI

Treatments will find by sunand moon

So folks like Corey and others I know

Can thrive foryears or decades or more.

Register soon my friends so we

A hundred strong can swarm the streets

Of towns and villages far and near

And raise the shout so all can hear:

A Cure is Coming! Never fear!

Overseas and here at home

Mary's Marauders will merrily roam

On Silver Wind in foreign seas,

Far East, Far West, and in between,

We shall merrily walk or run abroad

For PALS who can not jump or shout

Or run or walk or swim about.

Mary's Marauders are carrying hope

So all with ALS will know

The Cure is Coming!

Very Soon!

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