SANDPOINT — It is a disease with no known cause, no definitive method of diagnosis and no cure. Nevertheless, Parkinson's advocate A.C. Woolnough of Sandpoint is determined to help shut it down.

Woolnough, who has the neurological disease, recently returned from the Parkinson's Action Network annual conference in Washington, D.C., where he and other grassroots volunteers from 40 states strategized and met with elected officials.

"I'm retired. I still have the energy, and I'm determined to stop Parkinson's within my generation," said Woolnough."

He said that PAN is "the umbrella organization that does the political work. (At the conference) we have a couple days of training and listen to speakers. Then we dress up and spend the day in the Senate and House office buildings."

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