Snowman Joe is cooler than ever

The leaves are only beginning to fall, but “Snowman Joe” is already preparing its arrival, announcing the upcoming holiday season. For the seventh year in a row, Louise Boucher of Pierrefonds and her family will team up once again to build the very first snowman of the year in memory of her father, Joe Boucher, who died of ALS in November 2000.



Boucher, along with her husband, Wayne Arnott, their two children, Mitchell and Teneille, and with family and very close friends who support this event year after year, will create “Snowman Joe” on Saturday, November 17 in front of the Dollard-Des-Ormeaux Civic Center. Boucher’s supporters help raise funds and awareness to help fight ALS.



People can stop by and donate outside the Civic Center, next to Snowman Joe, or at the Plaza Pointe Claire on November 21,22,&23, where a table with information will be set. There, people will also have the occasion to buy Snowman Joe Holiday cards and other Snowman Joe items. With all her efforts, Louise Boucher hopes to reach their objective of collecting $2,000 this year. “What is even more important than the money is the information about ALS we want to get out, in honour of my father.”





About ALS

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, attacks the body’s motor neurons, and is fatal within an average of three to five years. As motor neurons are destroyed, persons with ALS lose their ability to walk, speak, swallow and breathe without affecting their intellectual capacity. They become prisoners within their own bodies.



About the ALS Society of Quebec

The ALS Society of Quebec is a non-profit community organization whose mission is exclusively dedicated to the improvement of living conditions for people suffering from ALS and the support of their family members. Promoting and subsidizing medical research and advancing research on the causes, treatment, and cure of ALS are also integral parts of the mission of the Society, which survives on donations and on proceeds from various fundraising events.