Forest Brook Elementary School students and staff gave a rock-star-style greeting to the ALS participants in the 2015 ALS Ride for Life. Cheers and chants of “You can do it!” and “Don’t give up the fight!” resounded as the entire Forest Brook student body and staff assembled on the school’s front walkways to welcome and support the riders.
Forest Brook was honored as a designated stop along this year’s Ride for Life journey, which will run from April 27-May 9, 2015. Ride for Life is annual event in which ALS patients ride their electric wheelchairs down the highways and local streets from Greenport, New York to Washington Square Park in New York City. Their mission is to raise public awareness of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), assist research in finding a cure, support ALS patients and their families and provide the ALS community with the latest ALS related news, information and inspiration.
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One of the Ride for Life participants, Chris Pendergast, has visited Forest Brook twice this year. He came in the fall to support the staff’s participation in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and then again in March for an inspirational assembly for grade 3-5 students.
