GROTON -- Despite a setback in his health, a local man said that he would not let a recent stroke slow him down for more than a couple of years before rejoining the annual Good Friday walk sponsored by the Devens-based charity, Loaves & Fishes.
"I'm not walking this year but I'm still asking for an appeal," said 91-year-old Bayard Underwood, a resident of Main Street. "I'm going to rest up for next year. What I'm doing instead of walking is manning the rest station at the half-way mark. It has an umbrella and some bottled water and I'll be at there checking off the mileage for the walkers."
A fixture of the Good Friday walk since its inception in the early 1970s, Underwood suffered a stroke last year that has forced him onto the sidelines.
"I was locked in the hospital and the nurses wouldn't let me out!" claimed Underwood as his reason for not making the walk last year.
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