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Ride For Life Makes a Stop at Babylon High School
Chris Pendergast's Riverhead to Manhattan ride drops by for a warm welcome from the Panthers.
The ALS Ride For Life made a few stops in the Town of Babylon, including a rousing mid-day stop to the cheering crowd outside of the Babylon Junior-Senior High School.
Throngs of students waving banners of support, clapping and even, in some cases, drumming helped Ride for Life's Chris Pendergast along his route to Manhattan.
Pendergast, who has been fighting ALS, or Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and better known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, for over 20 years founded the Ride for Life in 1998 to help raise awareness and money to help find a cure.
His wife, Christine, spoke for him to the students of the high school before continuing on his journey towards New York City.
"Today, we are all on one day," she said. "Chris could not thank the entire Babylon community enough... please know whether you gave a quarter, a dollar or more, you, when that cure is found, made it possible."
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