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OHIO: Auction raises $50K to fight Parkinson's July 31, 2004 The Davis Phinney Foundation for Parkinson's Disease Research and Wellness proclaimed its first big fund-raiser, this weekend's Sunflower Revolution, a huge success. The foundation raised more than $50,000 at an auction Friday night. The auction was combined with a dinner at the Westin Hotel downtown, but the amounts raised by the dinner were not known. The fund-raiser also included both 25- and 62-mile bike rides Saturday. A combined 125 bikers rode in the event, said Cindy Starr, spokeswoman for the Neuroscience Institute. Davis Phinney, 44, started the foundation, with Kathleen Krumme and David Ariosa, managers of Oakley Cycles, after being diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson's disease in 2000. For information about the foundation, call 731-9111. SOURCE: Cincinnati Enquirer, OH http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/08/01/loc_neighbors01.html * * * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn