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The Spirit of Kitchissippi
September 18, 2014
Westboro’s Issie Rabinowitz is one of 3,000 people across Canada with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).
About that Ice Bucket Challenge What does this Kitchissippi resident think of the fundraiser?
Story and photo by Ted Simpson
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is slowly receding into the same fuzzy corner of our collective memory as the Livestrong bracelet and the Kony 2012 movement, but for Issie Rabinowitz and his family in their humble home on Robin Lane in Westboro, life goes on the same as it did before the disease they have been
living with for six years suddenly made headlines across the globe. Much has been said about the merits of dumping cold water on yourself, where the money goes and what charities are most deserving of public funding. Rabinowitz has seen it all unfold from his living room on his computer screen. His own thoughts are much simpler and go straight to the heart of the issue.
“I think it’s very good because ALS is an awful disease, though there are not many people who have it,” says Rabinowitz. “So the big pharmaceutical companies do not have an incentive to invest a lot; so the fact that there is attention brought to it is very good.” Though his body is mostly paralyzed, Rabinowitz can still speak Continued on page 5
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