Day 2: Near misses and can’t-hold-it-breaks on the road to Gulu
Day 2 on the Amy for Africa Mission to Moyo is complete. It was a day of travel through Kampala, Uganda's largest city with 5 million population. Traffic was a nightmare. The highly congested city has four stop lights. That's right, four. It was an eye-opening look as we passed [...]
Day one (and-a-half): The CPAP ‘bomb’ and my squishy green pillow
MARK MAYNARD / AFA Eighteen hours on three airplanes, another six hours waiting in airports, a battery for a CPAP machine that looks like a homemade bomb and missing my squishy green pillow. That about sums it up so far. No matter how much you're told of the travel weariness, [...]
AFA receives $3,556 from ‘Shoe Carnival’ at Boyd Middle School
SUMMIT — Can you make a difference in your community? How about a community 7,000 miles away? The Gifted and Talented students at Boyd County Middle School did a little of both this week. After listening to Amy Compston speak to them a few months ago about the Amy For [...]
By the numbers with AFA’s Amy Compston
Amy Compston before taking the bus ride to the starting point of the 2015 Boston Marathon. By MARK MAYNARD / AFA BOSTON — The 119th Boston Marathon is history and history-making for Amy Compston, who ran her fastest marathon ever – by 25 seconds. Here’s a look at [...]
Compston sets PR in Boston Marathon despite conditions
By MARK MAYNARD The Daily Independent It wasn’t exactly ideal weather for running, but that’s never stopped Amy Compston. The marathon runner from Ashland — and the face behind the Amy For Africa mission — still managed to set a personal record during the 119th running of the Boston Marathon on [...]