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Jim Storms, a prosthetist at Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital, is using his skills to change lives around the world.

Curbell donates plastic sheet for prosthetics project in Ecuador Curbell Plastics donated enough material to make prosthetics for 500-700 people in Ecuador. Plastics shapes distributor Curbell Plastics Inc. recently donated more than 2,500 pounds of plastic materials to the international nonprofit Range of Motion Project (ROMP). Orchard Park, N.Y.-based Curbell is one of the largest suppliers of plastic sheet to the orthotic and prosthetic (O&P) market. At an industry event in 2019, Curbell senior business development manager Jeff Wilson met ROMP development director Lauren Panasewicz. In a F...

My New Orleans 02/10/2021 Expanding on their VirtuALL Distance Challenge that began in January, the Brewery Running Series announced their  Mardi Gras Bourbon Street Distance Detour on Feb. 16, 2021. Participants commit to completing 2 miles and earn a Finisher’s Medal, Louisiana Collector’s State Magnet, PLUS get local goodies and access to all VirtuALL Event Festivities! The VirtuALL Distance Challenge, which started Jan. 1 and will last the full year, has participants from all over the United States virtually traveling throughout the country and major territories, collecting various p...

FN Cover Stars Faith Briggs & Adeline Thompson of ‘This Land’ Documentary Promote Equity with Merrell Peter Verry Filmmakers Faith Briggs and Adeline Thompson bonded over a love of running in the outdoors. Now, the two are on a mission — with help from Merrell — to protect the places their legs have taken them, while celebrating other diverse people doing the same. The two storytellers aligned last year on “This Land,” a documentary following Briggs as she ran 150 miles through three U.S. National Monuments alongside other runners (Thompson included) who “represe...

Hyundai’s Mini 45 EV Lets Children Drive From Their Hospital Beds to Their Treatment Rooms Hyundai’s Mini 45 EV provides a real benefit for kids who are enduring the frightening experience of undergoing treatment at a hospital. Some PR campaigns are fun and exciting, while many are just plain cringe-worthy. But that doesn’t mean that we, the hapless consumers, can’t take advantage of those PR campaigns that are genuinely beneficial. Hyundai’s Little Big e-Motion Project is quite clearly a PR campaign intended to garner goodwill, but it did result in the Hyundai Mini 4...