Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry
On Aug. 14, during DC Beer Week, Molly Malone’s on Barracks Row was packed for an ALS awareness fundraiser. Local ’90s cover band Mr. Blonde played, and people drank local beer donated for the event.
Funds from the evening were supposed to go to Bottoms Up to Down ALS, a nonprofit that raises money for the ALS Therapy Development Institute in Cambridge, Mass. It’s a cause near and dear to the group’s founder, Teresa Thurtle, who serves in the National Guard and lost her father and one of her grandmothers to the debilitating neurodegenerative disease.
It’s also an important ...