Judy O'Loughlin, Grant County extension agent, and Helen Gray, participants in a thrice weekly exercise class based on the Strong Women, Strong Bones program developed at Tufts University, submitted themselves to an ice bucket challenge this morning. They challenged members of the state Public Health Department in the same building to get ice water dumped on them.

The increasingly popular challenge to raise awareness and funding for research on Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, took place Wednesday morning after the exercise class, with O'Loughlin and Gray being doused with ice water in the parking lot of the Grant County Swan Street Complex. 

The challenge raised almost $190 for ALS research. Several of the exercise class participants have had family members or friends impacted by the disease.

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