The Walk to Defeat A-L-S supports research, advocacy and care services for families affected by Lou Gehrig\u2019s Disease in Erie.<\/p>\n
Step by step, progress is being made.<\/p>\n
250 walkers made the 0.3 mile trek around UPMC Park.<\/p>\n
Stacy Schwalbendorf walked with a heavy heart.<\/p>\n
She lost her husband Lou 14 years ago.<\/p>\n
Senator Dan Laughlin also participated in the Walk.<\/p>\n
His 30-year-old son was diagnosed with A-L-S in 2025.<\/p>\n
Joel Zaczyk walked in memory of his mother who passed away in April.<\/p>\n
Fit Plus hosted a fundraiser for Joel\u2019s walk.<\/p>\n
All team members participated and they gave Joel a check for $4,000.<\/p>\n
Organizers say the event raised $75,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Walk to Defeat A-L-S supports research, advocacy and care services for families affected by Lou Gehrig\u2019s Disease…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,139],"class_list":["post-224004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}