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May 7, 2003
TONI DIAMOND, FOUNDER OF WINGS
OVER WALL STREET, AWARDED THE TRUSTEES AWARD BY
THE ALS MARCH OF FACES
 The
ALS March of Faces announced on May 7, 2003, that PALS Toni Diamond, founder
of Wings
Over Wall Street (formerly Wings of Hope) was one of the winners of
the ALS Awareness & Advocacy Awards presented each year by the ALS
March of Faces. Toni was one of seven extraordinary nominees, of which
three were honored with awards. Additionally, Warren Schiffer, Toni's
husband and caregiver, was one of six nominees for the Excellence in Caregiving
award. You can view all the nominees at http://march-of-faces.org/BBB/6-2/news.html.
Wings Over Wall Street is a benefit for the Muscular
Dystrophy Association to fund research to find treatments
and a cure for ALS. All net proceeds from Wings go to the ALS research
centers at the Eleanor & Lou Gehrig MDA/ALS Research Center at Columbia
University and the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns
Hopkins. To date, Wings benefits have provided those two research centers
with over $2.5 million.
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