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# Walk looks to get leg up on ALS
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/walk-looks-to-get-leg-up-on-als/
- Published: 2003-09-27T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T03:00:39.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Community, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

The ALS Association, a non-profit organization that raises awareness and needed funding for the fight against Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), is hosting the 2nd annual Walk to D’Feet ALS on Saturday, Oct. 4, at Reed Park in Santa Monica. Last year’s nationwide effort raised $6 million and included 50,000 participants in 57 cities. This year’s area walk will include an estimated 1,500 participants from the Greater Los Angeles area and hopes to raise over $350,000\. Among the walkers will be celebrities, community and corporate leaders, people living with ALS and their families and friends.

ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that causes the death of nerve cells in muscles. Over 5,600 people each year are diagnosed with ALS and as many as 30,000 Americans may be currently suffering from the disease, which has no known cause, prevention or cure.

Registration for the walk begins at 8:30 a.m., with the opening ceremony slated for 9:30 a.m. Walkers are asked to register for the Walk to D’Feet ALS by logging onto www.alsala.org, or by calling the ALS chapter office at (818) 865-8067.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 27, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/092703.pdf?ref=smdp.com)