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Whitby Free Press, Wednesday, September 6, 1995, Page 7 Jeses-Journey Jesse's Journey has 14 days, 420 kilometres and $4000,000 to go. Jesse Davidson at age 15 has the sassy spirit common in teenagers. He is quick with a witty reply. He is also confined to a wheelchair. He has Ducherme muscular dystrophy. Jesse's father, John, isa television news reporter for CFPL-TV i London, Ont. He i8 also the father of two other boys, Tyler, 17, and Tim, 12. On May 20, Jesse, his father and a small road crew stepped fi-cm the Manitoba side of the Ontario border near Kenora. Their goal: to waik 3,300 kilometres acrosa Ontario and raise $1 million dollars for genetie research by Sept.,20. Last Friday, day 103 of the tour and 2,900 kilometres dloser to the goal, Jesse's Journey passed tbrough Whitby. Duchenne muscular dystrophy is one of four climcal _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ forms of the disease. Jesse was six when diagnosed. Since then the progression of the disease has followed the classic pattern: the muscles of the pelvis and trnk are affected first Wasting of almost ail muscle groups is advanced by the late teens. Victims seldom live beyond their twenties. Because of the unique genetie pattern, virtually ail patients are male. It's the genetic connection that put Jesse's Journey on the road. A million dollar.research fund may make it unnecessary for other famiies to go through the discouraging, day-by- day pain of the disease. With recent advances, a cure may be possible. So Jesse's Journey started across, Ontario at its 30- kilometre-a-day clip. Kate Young, a news anchor at CFPLi-TV, tried one day. "That man is a machine," she.was quoted by the London Free Prees. "I don't know how he does it every day. My feet are killing me." My brother, Jim, community relations officer for CFPL, also put-in one 30-kilometre day. The next day he lixnped with aches and pains. Head of the road crew is Trishia Federko, an energetic red-head who finished her degree ini kinesiology this spring - and promptly found herself not only on the road crew but ïinanaging it. She has a cellular phone glued te her ear -- permanently, even during lunch. RUINS 0F GEORGE SCOTT'S EGG PRODUCING PLANT, SEPTEMBER, 1962 Back in London, home base volunteers keep press This building, the largest egg production plant in Ontario, stood near the intersection of inquiries up to date. (By Monday evening, at this writing, Dundas and Scott streets. Built C. 1956, it collapsed on Sept. 2, 1962, trapping 25,000 hens. The -Lyame of the Ottawa Senators. lhe Prime Minister has been VIHMY NEWS invited to join him for the final kilometre. And the final a Bill Ashton, caretaker of the Whitby Post Office for 36 years, retired yesterday. step will take them into Quebec - fitting of a journey that 0 Chmiie Stafford is the 1959 Peter Peny Award W-Inner as Whitbys outatanding citizen and started it's fint few steps in Manitoba. was also honouréd by St. John Ambulance for starting fint aid courses in Whitby. Gary Allan Price of the London crew has no doubt they The east waH of the new Blair Park Publie Schoël, under construction, collapsed in a storm. wiII make the mflhon-dollar mark. lhe final few days of the J.C.M. Mik, who presented a collection of more than 1,000 military badges to, Legion Branch 112, was given a life memberahip prior to, returning to England. tour will focus more attention. In addition, a corporate sub- committee will continue work this fall. Donations can be made through any Royal Bank branch 80 YF.Affl ÀGO in Ontario (another corporate sponsor). Or you can send froin the Thursday, September 2, 1915 edition of the directly to: WEfffflY GAZETTE AND CE[RONICLE Jesse's Journey, P.O.Box 5099, London, Ont., M6A- Clhis issue is missing) 4M8. For more information on Jessds Journey, call 519-679- 2828. 1 mmmmummumi Li