Darrell Gwynn Foundation Spearheads Florida Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Week to Educ

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Darrell Gwynn Foundation Spearheads Florida Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Week to Educate the Community
Thursday November 9, 10:30 am ET November 13 - 19 -- First-ever week aimed at paralysis prevention, promoting safety, knowledge and understanding to reduce injuries and accidents

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The Darrell Gwynn Foundation (DGF) -- a nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing paralysis when possible, providing support for individual's living with paralysis and ultimately finding a cure for paralysis -- is capitalizing on the first Florida Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Week as a focal point for educating the Florida community to the dangers of accidents that can lead to paralysis. The Foundation will spend the week of November 13-19, 2006 in Florida classrooms, on the airwaves, and at events across the state educating the public on preventing spinal cord injuries. DGF says its ultimate goal for the week is to reduce the number of spinal cord injuries in the state of Florida

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The Foundation will spend the week of November 13-19, 2006 in Florida classrooms, on the airwaves, and at events across the state educating the public on preventing spinal cord injuries.

Really good news. Sounds like a lot of people are doing some good work.

C.

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Paralyzed racer from Weston starts foundation to lend support, help find cure
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Special Correspondent

November 13, 2006


On top of his sport, and with a weekend off from competitive drag racing, Darrell Gwynn went to England for an exhibition in 1990 to rocket his Top Fuel dragster down a track at 240 mph.

In the blink of an eye, Gwynn, 45, smashed into a concrete wall and was left a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the chest down and with his left arm lost at the elbow. Gwynn, who lives in Weston, has used his personal tragedy to start a foundation to support individuals living with paralysis and to underwrite research to cure paralysis.

"I am looking to save kids who have their whole life in front of them from tragedy," Gwynn said.

The Darrell Gwynn Foundation will sponsor the first Florida Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Week, today through Sunday, to make Floridians aware of the dangers of accidents that can lead to paralysis.

Gwynn has teamed up with Marc Buoniconti's Miami Project to Cure Paralysis to create a spinal cord injury prevention program and brochure that will be presented at high schools.

Buoniconti, son of former Miami Dolphin Nick Buoniconti, suffered a spinal cord injury in 1985 that left him unable to move a muscle below his neck. He now serves as ambassador for the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis and president of the Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis, the Miami Project's international fundraising arm.

Gwynn, Buoniconti, race car drivers, sports personalities, local celebrities, politicians and disabled individuals will make presentations at high schools during the week.


http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/loc...a-news-broward

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Paralyzed former drag racer Gwynn still passionate about racing, fishing

Paralyzed champ stays busy running foundation, fishing tournaments

By Steve Waters |South Florida Sun-Sentinel November 7, 2008

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Weston - As a champion drag racer, Darrell Gwynn was unstoppable.

Despite a devastating accident during a 1990 test run that left him paralyzed and in a wheelchair, Gwynn hasn't slowed down.

A National Hot Rod Association world champion with 28 NHRA national event victories and a member of the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame, Gwynn also oversaw a successful race team.

He now keeps busy running the Darrell Gwynn Foundation (Darrellgwynnfoundation.org), a nonprofit that Gwynn started in 2002. The organization provides wheelchairs to children and young adults who can't afford them, funds research for a cure for spinal cord paralysis and improves the quality of life of those with spinal cord injuries.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/communit...,1072051.story