Church gives ALS chapter $10,000 gift
Saturday, March 29, 2008



The South Carolina Chapter of the ALS Association received a $10,000 donation Wednesday from the John Wesley United Methodist Church in West Ashley.

To make the gift, the church collected the proceeds from the Victor Boudolf Honorary Golf Tournament.

"We are extremely grateful to Wesley United Methodist Church and to John Smythe, who came up with the idea of the golf tournament to raise funds to support our chapter services," said Paul Hollen, the chapter's president of the board of directors.

ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — commonly called Lou Gehrig's disease — is a progressive neurodegenerative muscular disease that affects as many as 30,000 people in the U.S. at any given time, according to the ALS Association.

Each year, about 5,600 new cases are diagnosed.

The survival rate is two to five years from the time of diagnosis, and the cost to families can reach $200,000 per year.

The $10,000 gift will be used to fund the South Carolina Chapter's services. For information about these services, call 971-0933.


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