TEAMS FORMING FOR APRIL'S MS WALK.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER - Walking teams are forming to raise funds in the National Multiple Sclerosis Society's annual Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley MS Walk. The local walk will be on a Saturday, April 8, with the start and finish at the Lancaster Marketplace shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into on Lancaster Boulevard at the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. . People can walk either five kilometers - a little more than three miles - or 10 kilometers, with rest stops to supply orange slices, water and goodies. Two vehicles will be on the route to pick up tired walkers. Registration will begin at 7 a.m. with opening ceremonies at 8 a.m. featuring local dignitaries, drawings and entertainment. Walkers will get a medal and a grilled hot dog or hamburger and soda served by the Lancaster Knights of Columbus Knights of Columbus, American Roman Catholic society for men, founded (1882) at New Haven, Conn. (where its headquarters are still located), by Father Michael J. McGivney. . The walk is among 700 that will be held across the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. in March and April, events that are expected to draw about 250,000 participants. Proceeds will go to programs and services offered by the MS Society and to fund research into the disease. Walkers are often teams of relatives or friends of people with MS, an unpredictable, chronic, progressive and often-disabling disease of the central nervous system. Symptoms can range from numbness or tingling tin·gle v. tin·gled, tin·gling, tin·gles v.intr. 1. To have a prickling, stinging sensation, as from cold, a sharp slap, or excitement: tingled all over with joy. in the limbs to blindness or paralysis. People are usually age 20 to 50 when they are diagnosed, with women twice as likely as men to have the disease. Five drugs have been developed to slow the progression of MS, but there is no known cause or cure, MS Society officials said. The society's Southern California chapter serves about 12,500 people. There is no minimum pledge to participate, but last year the average was $240 per walker. Walking teams can register at www.msevents.com, call the local field office at (661) 945-9111 or call 1-800-FIGHT-MS. |
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