ALS ride kicks off in Riverhead
More than a hundred students walked behind Christopher Pendergast, 62, in his motorized wheelchair Monday morning to Riverhead Town Hall, where Pendergast will begin his 12-day trip to Manhattan to raise funds for Lou Gehrig's disease.
Pendergast expects a dozen other patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a degenerative condition Pendergast was diagnosed with in 1993, to join him for...
