ALS

Helping to bring awareness to ALS with 92.7 WOBM

The "Ice Bucket Challenge" has spread like wildfire over the past few weeks. With everyone getting involved, from locals to celebrities. But this has to be the best celebrity video yet. Watch Kermit the Frog get iced in the name of ALS support:

This social media craze that's making everyone cold is such an amazing way to bring awareness to ALS and raise money.

As we've talked about previously, "The Ice Bucket Challenge" is sweeping the country, and just this week, over 200 Jersey shore locals got doused all at once for charity. The Atlantic Club in Manasquan gathered employees, members, and friends, and taped the hundreds of buckets being dumped in just over 2 minutes. Check it out:

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease is a motor neurone disease caused by the degeneration of upper and lower neurons . The condition is often called Lou Gehrig's disease in North America, after the New York Yankees baseball player who was diagnosed with the disease in 1939. The disorder is characterized by rapidly progressive weakness, muscle atrophy and r