Dan challenged Six Flags President Dave Roemer and he accepted.
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Year two of the Ice Bucket Challenge officially began July 31 in Boston and will continue through the month of August. There, retired member Sam Beekman, who was diagnosed with ALS a few years ago, challenged Local 63 President John Kleiboeker to have a bucket of ice and water dumped over his head by Secretary-Treasurer John Hall.
“We’ve got to do better”, Pascuzzi said.
“My cheeks get real tight, my jaw gets real tight so it’s hard to eat”, he said “It’s just nasty”.
“We really want to make sure that we’re doing everything with those dollars to make the biggest impact with folks living with this disease”, Mike Stephenson, ALS Association Marketing Director said.
The money can be used for things like, Davenport’s lift recliner and other services that are not covered by insurance.
“I was the first Wave sent to an air station and so I was exposed to the jet fuel and everything the whole time I was there”.
Last year, the fund-raising effort, which sees participants dumping a bucket of water and ice over themselves and nominating three friends, spread like wildfire as people tried to outdo each other by carrying out their nominations in more creative, imaginative and weird ways. “This Ice Bucket Challenge is going to allow more research to find out why”, she says.
As the only not-for-profit voluntary health agency dedicated exclusively to the fight against ALS, we direct the largest privately-funded research enterprise engaged to uncover the mystery of a disease that affects as many as 30,000 annually.
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Millions of people participated, helping the ALS Association raise $115 million from August to October. Organizers figured if last year’s phenomenon worked, why not again?
