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NECN interview about TV series

October 11, 2011 alcatraz, athlete, athletics, biking, book, cancer, disability, disabled, fighting back, fundraising, inspiration, media coverage, skiing

October 10 — Newton, MA. Live on NECN talking about the new TV Series Who Says I Can’t. The TV Series pilot is in post-production and will be shown to the public for the first time on Oct 30 at the Fairmont Battery Wharf Hotel in Boston from 1-4 at the Piers Park Sailing Center [...]

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Filming Kelly Bruno for WSIC TV

July 2, 2011 amputee, athletics, biking, book, disability, disabled, duke, inspiration, prosthetic, prosthetics, self-confidence, self-esteem, sports, swimming, TV

Filming for WSIC TV continues and last week was all Kelly Bruno.
Kelly’s quick thumbnail story is that she was born with a birth defect that included not having a fibula or a foot-ankle on her right side. It made her lower leg useless and it was removed at six months of age. She has never [...]

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Next TV profile: Kelly Bruno

May 5, 2011 amputee, athlete, athletics, biking, disability, disabled, prosthetic, prosthetics, running, swimming, TV

Kelly Bruno, age 27 from Boca Raton, FL, is a Duke graduate and now a medical student at UNC Chapel Hill. She is also a world-record holding amputee runner and triathlete, a former contestant on the TV series Survivor: Nicaragua, and the next person we will profile in Who Says I Can’t the TV Series.
Kelly [...]

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2011 Athletic Fundraising Appeal

March 27, 2011 alcatraz, amputee, athletics, biking, cancer, charity, Dana-Farber, disability, disabled, fundraising, PMC, sports, swimming

Jothy & Carole’s 2011 Athletic Fundraising Appeal
Every year we take on 2 or 3 significant athletic challenges to raise money and give back. We need your help to reach our fundraising goals. To date, since 1998, we have raised and given to these causes over $100,000 thanks to so many generous donors. Thanks for all [...]

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This year’s athletic events

February 19, 2011 alcatraz, amputee, athlete, athletics, biking, disability, disabled, fighting back, handicapped, recreation, sports

I have pretty much settled on the events I will be doing in 2011. Here is the list:

date
location
event
what it is
fundraiser

2/20
Boston, MA
C.R.A.S.H.-B.
Indoor rowing championships
not a fundraiser

4/16-17
D.C. to Gettysburg
FOA ride
World T.E.A.M. Sports Face of America Ride to honor our military—disabled, veterans and active duty—in a ride from DC to Gettysburg, PA
Resources and support to injured service members, [...]

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Anthony, Zach, Derek, Dan & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

December 27, 2010 athlete, athletics, biking, exercise, inspiration

Ted Berg and his friends Anthony, Zach, Derek and Dan are off on an incredible adventure riding for 3 months across the southern tip of south america. Ted is a great guy, a former Americorps volunteer and now a highly valued employee at Healthcare for the Homeless Program (where my wife Carole is director of [...]

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Winter workout routine

November 17, 2010 amputee, athlete, biking, cancer, disability, exercise, hiking, lungs, skiing, sports, swimming

Many people ask me what my normal training routine is that sets me up to ski, bike and swim the amount I do at the level I do (with one leg and one lung of course). I am writing this for people who are either working out themselves and want to compare notes or for [...]

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Man of the Day

October 18, 2010 amputee, athlete, athletics, biking, cancer, inspiration, media coverage

From the Good Men Project: Man of the Day: Jothy Rosenberg
Jothy Rosenberg has done a lot in his life. He’s the author of two technical books and founder of six high-tech companies. He’s also ridden in the Massachusetts Challenge Bike-A-Thon seven times and swum from Alcatraz to San Francisco 17 times, in support of the [...]

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Biking Tuscany: You are There

September 30, 2010 biking, disability, inspiration, sports

Tuscany. We went on this trip with DuVine Adventures of Summerville, MA. They only do bike trips and they only do them in wine country all over the world. We chose Tuscany because we wanted to see Italy and we wanted to learn more about Italian wine. We knew Tuscany was beautiful (and hilly) but [...]

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In memory of Brianna

September 27, 2010 biking, cancer, charity, fundraising

My nephew Graeme is taking on a major athletic challenge to raise funds and awareness for a horrible form of brain tumor that took the life of his sister before he was even born. First let me allow Graeme to say in his own words why, in spite of the challenges of being a second [...]

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