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Ice Bucket Challenge Comes to Caffe Amouri Tuesday

Come watch owner Michael Amouri get doused with a bucket of ice water and help raise funds, awareness about ALS.

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge fundraiser has reached nearly $80 million. Today (Tuesday) it comes to Caffe Amouri, where owner Michael Amouri has accepted the challenge. You can stop by and watch Amouri take the challenge at 1 p.m. Tuesday.

You can follow the latest information about the Ice Bucket Challenge on social media with the hashtag #IceBucketChallenge.

Who will Amouri nominate to take the challenge? Tune in!

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From the ALS Assocation: What is ALS? Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), often referred to as “Lou Gehrig’s Disease,” is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. The progressive degeneration of the motor neurons in ALS eventually leads to their death. When the motor neurons die, the ability of the brain to initiate and control muscle movement is lost. With voluntary muscle action progressively affected, patients in the later stages of the disease may become totally paralyzed.

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