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Outdoorsmen unite over Devastating Disease

Apr 27, 2007 @ 03:58 pm by Moose

If you have ever had a family member or someone you love get Alzheimer’s you know how devastating a disease it can be as it robs the individual of their mind. Mike Zlotnicki’s column this week over at the N&O tells us about an organization of Outdoorsmen who are raising money for research on Alzheimer’s.

Ben Wolfe. He credits his late grandmother, Bobbie Hunter Boney of Wilmington, for much of his outdoors interest, and he has taken his appreciation a step further.
In 2005, Wolfe founded Outdoorsmen for Alzheimer’s Inc., a nonprofit group that hopes to make an impact by raising funds for research into the disease, a brain disorder that gradually destroys a person’s memory and ability to learn, reason, make judgments and communicate.
The disease stole the final years from Boney, who was 77 when she died.
“My grandmother, Bobbie Boney, passed away in January of 2005,” Wolfe said from his home in Raleigh. “I always had a real, real close relationship with her. She instilled a real appreciation of the outdoors from an early age. She took her kids duck hunting and golfing.

Outdoorsmen for Alzheimer’s Inc. are having a fund raising 5K run at Umstead State Park on May 6th, 2007. Check their website for more information and to get signed up. Hopefully soon scientists and the medical community will discover the right answers to defeat this disease.