A Yellow Spring man is getting a spot on an online calender as part of a national awareness campaign.
A profile of Roger Siervogel, a professor of community health at Wright State University’s Boonshoft School of Medicine, will be featured Tuesday on Muscular Dystrophy Association’s “ALS: Anyone’s Life Story.”
MDA is profiling 31 people, one for each day in May, as part of ALS Awareness Month.
Now 67, Siervogel was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Lou Gehrig’s disease, in June of 2003.
Renee and Roger Siervogel
After learning his diagnosis, Siervogel and his wife Renee when home and celebrated their life together over dinner with friends.
“We didn’t tell them about the diagnosis, but we opened our best bottles of wine and champagne and celebrated,” Siervogel said according to a press release from MDA.
Siervogel calls ALS the “wildest roller coaster ride you can ever imagine.” He said he has tried to stayed positive.
“I believe this has been an important fact in my survival and my quality of life,” he said.
Lila Petersen, a spokeswoman from MDA’s national office, called Siervogel’s story remarkable.
“He is a very interesting man,” she said.
MDA says 30,000 Americans have ALS, a disease that kills motor neurons.
The muscles the neurons control, including those responsible for speech and breathing, weaken and then become paralyzed.
Since 1950, MDA has dedicated more than $290 million to ALS research, services and information programs.
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Way back in 2008 Forbes.com ticked everyone around here off by listing Dayton among the nation’s fastest-dying’ cities
We like the whole affordable thing better.
Here’s a little of what Forbes says this time:
On the Upper East Side of Manhattan, a million dollars can get you as little as an 895-square-foot one-bedroom apartment. In Los Angeles, a 2,250-square foot three-bedroom abode in Hollywood Hills. But in Dayton, Ohio, a million dollars fetches luxury: a 12,000-square-foot estate just outside of the city limits equipped with personal gym and home theater, nestled on five acres of land.
To find the most affordable cities with metropolitan populations over 600,000, Forbes said it used four economic metrics: housing affordability, cost of living, median salaries for residents with a BA degree or higher and unemployment rates.
Cincinnati landed 15 on the list followed by Cleveland in at #16 and Akron in the 20th slot.
What do you think? Is Dayton really the nation’s most affordable city? Do you care about what Forbes thinks?
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The woman who made the term “eat my shorts” famous is coming home to pick up an honor.
Ay Carumba!
Fairmont West High School grad Nancy Cartwright - the voice of Bart Simpson from the “Simpsons” - will be awarded by the Dayton Area Broadcasters Hall Of Fame during a special ceremony 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. June 10 at the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, 16 South Williams St.
The Kettering native picked up the term “eat my shorts” her senior year of high school BTW. She explains it all in the video above.
The voice-artist was inducted into the local broadcasters hall of fame last year, but did not attend the ceremony.
Cartwright was 18 years old when she got her start at WING Radio on David Road.
Later mentored by Ohio native Daws Butler - the voice of Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear and other charaters -, Cartwright worked on “Richie Rich” and had roles in television and feature films before landing her Simpson job.
The show has been a FOX television staple since 1989. It is the nation’s longest-running American sitcom.
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Air Force 2nd Lt. John Avrett and Meghan Kinney are hitched.
The inspirational couple we first told you about in October were recently married at the Sanderling Resort and Spa.
Avrett, a student at the Air Force Institute of Technology, and Kinney, an Olympian, won the Salute To Love competition sponsored by ObxBrides.com and Operation Homefront.
The three-day bash was to include a bachelor/bachelorette outing, rehearsal dinner and farewell brunch as wells as a cake, flowers, multiple photography sessions, fully catered reception, entertainment and an officiant.
Hard copies can be picked up at Beavercreek Schools’ Central Office, schools offices, the Beavercreek Community Library, the Beavercreek Senior Center, Beavercreek Chamber of Commerce, City of Beavercreek administrative offices and Beavercreek Township administrative offices.
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This one proves that lessons learned young can last a lifetime.
A Sugarcreek Twp. man said training he received as a Boy Scouts aided him in helping save a Waynesville man’s life.
Staff photo by Jim Noelker
Jason and Emily Praeter were honored by Sugarcreek Twp. Monday for helping Ashley Fry after an accident near the intersection of Wilmington Dayton and Middle Run Road earlier this year.
The couple received a proclamation during Monday night’s township trustees meeting.
Fry crashed his car near the Praeters’ farmhouse 9 p.m. March 16.
The Praeters were hosting a bonfire. They and guests rushed to Fry’s aid.
The car rolled over and Fry’s arm was badly mangled and gushed blood, Sugarcreek Twp. Fire Chief Randall J. Pavlak.
Jason Praeter removed Fry’s belt and used it as a tourniquet to stop bleeding. His wife made the call for help.
Jason Praeter said lessons he learned in Boy Scouts and while working at a skydiving center in Waynesville came to mind when he saw Fry.
“We just knew we had to stop the bleeding,” he said.
Pavlak said the couple’s actions were life-saving.
“I was amazed by your actions” Pavlak, the first emergency responder at the accident scene, told the couple. He noted that many are reluctant to act in the face of so much blood.
Fry said he knew he was dying.
“I love you guys,” he told the Praeters. “You did save my life.”
He and his wife have become friends with the Praeters since the crash.
Fry faces charges in Xenia Municipal Court of operating a vehicle while intoxicated and failure to maintain reasonable control.
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The folks at AIDS Resource Center Ohio are still grinning from ear to ear over the success of last month’s Ooh La Rouge themed RED Table Design Gala.
The gala raised a record $500,820, ARC Ohio spokeswoman Lisa Grigsby said today.
That’s about 30 percent more than the $373,000 record set during the 2010 RED (Reach, Empower and Dream) Table Design Gala. The event happens every two years.
Grigsby gave props to event chair Sue Spiegel who started raising money for this year’s gala at the 2010 gala.
Nearly 400 people attended the 2012 gala April 28 at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds Roundhouse in Dayton.
There are a few shots of the 43 French-themed tables designed by volunteers.
A trip to France was raffled for $37,000 and the event’s silent auction brought in $31,000.
Money raised will be used to support ARC Ohio programs for those infected, affected or at risk for HIV infection in the Miami Valley. This includes a mail order pharmacy that will soon open in Columbus.
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Grigsby said area residents will be able to get medications from that pharmacy.
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George Stephanopoulos and his crew over at ABC’s “Good Morning America” have dubbed a Dayton man “world’s worst boyfriend” for a prank that sent the man’s girlfriend and two other women screaming from an apartment.
A YouTube video of the prank has earned 25-year-old George Daoud a degree of fame.
In it, Daoud dons a blue ski mask and trench coat and waits for his girlfriend and her sister to arrive at their apartment in Little Rock, Ark.
Daoud leaps out holding a TV and a duffel bag when the duo and a friend arrive about an hour later.
The women freak out and run from the apartment like one is wont to do when one think their place is being robbed.
The girlfriend’s sister sobs.
Stephanopoulos asked Daoud, apparently a known prankster, why he did it.
“I was bored one day and I thought, ‘What’s their biggest fear?” Daoud answered.
The video has gained hundreds of thousands of online hits and been featured on several TV show.
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Roger and Renee, We know you guys are busy and we missed you (and the grandkids!) at the annual plant