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June 20, 2005
Marie Gets Some Press
Every year Marie Nemec bikes to the HDSA convention.
No, not just from the hotel...for several hundred miles. She does this to raise money and awareness for Huntington's Disease.
Visit her website here - http://www.bikeforthecure.org.
There is also a nice article on her efforts in the Augusta Chronicle (painful registration process in order to read):
If you see 62-year-old Marie Nemec and 69-year-old Charlotte Reicks riding their bikes toward Thomson today on their way to Washington, Ga., the two ask you to wave....
The women, who cycled to Augusta from Bamberg, S.C., on Sunday, tag-team the ride.
While one starts biking, the other moves their minivan to a point 10 miles down the road, Ms. Reicks said.
Each woman bikes about 10 miles at a time, and the team covers between 60 and 70 miles per day.
They stay with churches, Huntington's families and acquaintances along the way.
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"My first concern with the first ride was safety," she said, adding they've never felt unsafe on any of their six previous rides. "People seemed like they wanted to help us get there. I came back from that first trip with a new concept of America."
Ms. Nemec learned of the disease through a friend who lost her husband to it. She had to do something to help others coping with the disease, she said, and with a mutual friend and Ms. Reicks, rode the first "Bike for the Cure" in 1999.
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The women have raised more than $140,000 through their rides, and they hope to reach the $175,000 mark by the end of this trip.
Posted by Dave at June 20, 2005 06:34 AM
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