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re-post hi all john ball will be the guest host on this sunday's (2001/02/11) simultaneous radio- and wwweb-cast of 'Travels With Parkinson's - Talk-radio With a Purpose" at: http://www.geocities.com/chycasavant/ which is just the only wwweb broadcast parkinson's disease awareness talk-radio show on the planet! 'Travels With Parkinson's - Talk-radio With a Purpose" (TWP-TWP) is the 'Voice Of Parkinson's" around the world (VOP) and is the brainchild of host and Person With Parkinson's (PWP) that pd wwweb- and radio-broadcaster and techno edge cutter, that talk-radio guy, leonard 'chy' casavant (PDWRB-TEC-TRG-LCC) tune in your radio to WALE 990 AM in Providence RI or tune in your wwweb browser (using audiostreaming software: install this first!) at 9:00pm EST to: http://www.geocities.com/chycasavant/ or browse the show later on MP3 files from chy's archyves as so generously provided by john lester, mgh webforum webspinner: http://dem0nmac.mgh.harvard.edu/me.html i don't know John Ball myself, but he has great references! i have mined the pieNET and the jaNET archives and discovered these nuggets about him: Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 From: Mary Yost ... Among those 20,000 runners was our own John Ball, a PWP who continues to run marathons. It was pure luck that I picked him out of the crowd and called, "Go, John Ball!" (It amazes me when my soft PD voice sometimes can carry, but years of singing lessons may pay off.) He turned to greet me, said he was doing well though a little slower than he would have liked. Yesterday at a support group meeting, he had described his medication plan and I had offered to be there with supplies if something were to change. But today he said his plan was working, and all he wanted was a swig of water. Then off he went to challenge his own personal best, running half an hour ahead of my young nephew and an hour ahead of my young office colleague. "Go, John!"... Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 From: Ken Aidekman ... there’s John Ball a PWP from the LA area who will RUN this year’s LA Marathon, AGAIN. John not only runs the marathon but he helps train disadvantaged kids train to run it as well ... Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 From: Ken Aidekman ...John, an executive with North American Honda, has run the marathon in the past. This year he will collect funds for Parkinson’s research.... Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 From: mary yost ... Tales of Team Parkinson will be posted soon: John Ball addressing the LA Roadrunners... Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 From: Ken Aidekman ... John Ball, a runner with Parkinson's who has been in numerous LA Marathons, finished the twenty-six-mile course for TEAM PARKINSON this time in under five hours ... Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 From: Mary Yost ... Next Sunday 2/11/2001 is the Travels with Parkinson interview with John Ball, co-founder and inspiration of Team Parkinson, who'll be running his 6th LA Marathon. He's had PD for way too many years... this message will be posted at: TWP-TWP - the Programmes http://www.geocities.com/chycasavant/ janet wwwebspinner to the stars janet paterson, an akinetic rigid subtype parkie 53 now / 44 dx cd / 43 onset cd / 41 dx pd / 37 onset pd TEL: 613 256 8340 SMAIL: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada EMAIL: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/