Group formed for MS victims

CORTLAND — Just a penny a day, $3.65 a year, will buy membership in MS365, a new organization that plans to make dreams come true for people with multiple sclerosis.

MS365, which is short for Multiple Sclerosis 365, was formed by David M. Serotko of Cortland, who was diagnosed with the disease Sept. 15, 2006, at age 28.

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic, often-disabling disease of the central-nervous system, according to the Web site nationalmssociety.org.

Serotko, a technical assistant in information technology at Salem Community Hospital, put the MS365 Web site, www.MS365.org on the Internet on Nov. 30, 2009.

He is working on getting his nonprofit charitable organization designated tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Serotko said he hopes MS365 can grant its first “dream” by the end of the year.

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