May is Huntington’s disease Awareness Month.

Amanda Rivest, event organizer for the Huntington Society says she has a personal connection to the disease.

“Every child of a person that has this disease has a 50% chance of inheriting it, so my mother inherited this disease and now she’s in the late stages in a nursing home,” says Rivest. “So me and my siblings have a 50% chance of having it as well , so last year I went through the testing process and found out I will have Huntington’s as well in the future,”

Rivest adds there’s a flag raising at the provincial offences court on May 3rd.