Dear Family and Friends:

In memory of my brother Stephen LaBelle, who's life has been taken by ALS at age 46, I have decided to create my own fundraiser to do my part to challenge ALS. As you know ALS is a devastating disease with no treatments or cure. ALS is a terminal disease that takes away peoples ability to walk, talk, and eventually breathe. With your support, we can change all that.

Support from my campaign will help to create a better reality for people and families living with ALS by enabling access to support services and equipment. Funds raised will also support research so that one day soon ALS will be a treatable, not terminal disease. Many leading ALS researchers believe that effective treatment options are now a matter of when, not if and that research discovery is limited only by the amount of funding available to pursue it. This makes my fundraiser an important vehicle for progress, so please support my efforts.