Linda Boyd, Torrington, and daughter, Mackenzie Rivers, Coventry, pose on the South Lawn of the Connecticut State Capitol Building in Hartford Tuesday, March 13. Volunteers, including Boyd and Mackenzie, planted 6,000 MS flags of hope in recognition of each of the 6,000 Connecticut residents battling multiple sclerosis, a potentially debilitating disease. Linda Boyd, a retired teacher, and Mackenzie Rivers, an equipment room manager at the University of Connecticut at Storrs, are longtime supporters of the National MS Society, Connecticut Chapter, participating each year in MS fundraising events, including the Travelers Walk MS, which this year will take place at 12 sites across Connecticut Sunday, April 22. Boyd’s youngest daughter, who lives in Pennsylvania, battles multiple sclerosis. For more information on MS and the many ways the chapter assists people battling multiple sclerosis or to register for the 2012 Travelers Walk MS, presented by North American Power, visitwww.ctfightsMS.org.
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