Hundreds walk in Mill Creek Park to benefit MS

By SEAN BARRON

news@vindy.com

YOUNGSTOWN

When Sharri Brown was about 10, her father, Gary Molnar, was diagnosed with progressive multiple sclerosis, a condition that greatly affected the course of her life.

“My dad had a lot of pain; the pain was overwhelming,” Brown recalled about Gary Molnar, who died in October 1998 from complications related to MS.

Before his illness, Molnar worked for a car dealership in New Castle, Pa., she said.

Her father, as well as an aunt who suffers from the disease, were two of the main reasons the Canfield woman participated in Sunday’s 19th annual MS Super Walk that began in Mill Creek MetroParks’ James L. Wick Recreation Area, off McCollum Road on the city‘s West Side.

Several hundred people took part in the four-mile walk, sponsored by the Canfield-based Multiple Sclerosis Services Agency and intended to raise roughly $20,000 to start a therapeutic horseback-riding program, organizers said.

The nonprofit agency provides services to people in Mahoning, Columbiana and Trumbull counties who have physical challenges because of MS.

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