Siblings raising funds for ALS research in honor of brothr


YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown’s Team Bannon, consisting of Breen Bannon and his sister, Lisa, plan to ride for the second-straight year in the 2010 Tri-State Trek, a three-day, 270-mile bicycle ride from Boston to New York City, to raise funds for the ALS-Therapy Development Institute.

ALS is known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

The Bannons ride in honor of their brother, Chuck, who died of ALS on April 18, 2009. Breen, of Youngstown, said his brother was a healthy, athletic 41-year-old with a wife and young son when he was diagnosed in May 2006.

The Tri-State Trek is July 23-25.

People who want to sponsor Team Bannon can make a donation by going to www.als.net/TST/Portal.aspx?teamId=71 or by mailing a check made out to Tri-State Trek, Team Bannon, to Breen Bannon, 3478 Bentwillow Drive, Youngstown, OH 44511.