Belanger Ford Lincoln Centre in Chelmsford hosted a party Thursday to launch the Fall issue of Sudbury Living Magazine and to unveil the new 2017 Lincoln Continental.
“Sudbury Living was looking for a good cover story, and we found one,” says associate publisher and editor Vicki Gilhula.
Dealership owner Josée Bélanger-Leroux is a trailblazer. She is one of only six women who are Ford Canada dealer principals.
That determination to win has served her well and now she has embarked on another challenge. She is committed to raising money for research to find effective treatments and a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
In July 2015 Bélanger-Leroux’s husband of 27 years, Michel, 54, was diagnosed with slow-progressive ALS. The high school physical education teacher had retired just one month before he got the bad news.
ALS is a progressive neuro-muscular disease where nerve cells die off and leave voluntary muscles paralyzed. It is often referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease -- Gehrig, who played for the New York Yankees was diagnosed with ALS and forced to retire in 1939.
Recently, Josée and Michel hosted a golf tournament that raised $65,000 for the Adaptive Canuck ALS Foundation. The foundation was founded by Jeffrey Perreault, a Sudbury businessman who was diagnosed with ALS at the age of 33 in 2014.
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