News at Eleven: During a recent conversation about his passion

for poetry and getting things done, the 67-year-old Moose Jaw man [Gary Hyland] interjects: "To be brutally realistic, I've got maybe six months of life, and I may be bedridden for three or four of those." While resigned to his fate, he's frustrated at being forced to slow down.

The man who helped his hometown become a federally designated 2007 Cultural Capital of Canada was diagnosed at the start of the year with amyotrophic lateral sceloris (ALS), known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

from The Leader-Post: Final chapter in Hyland's life story takes turn for worse

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