Weekend Warriors-A pack of dads leads the way in diabetes fund-raising

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GEOFF KASE HAS WANTED a cure for diabetes for as long as he can remember: Both his father, Jim, and son, Aidan, 9, have type 1 diabetes. So to raise awareness of diabetes and money for research, Kase called in some fathers for reinforcement. Kase, 46, of Berwyn, Pa., is the founder of Kase's Corner, a nonprofit organization and team of cyclists (kasescorner.org) working to support people with diabetes. In 2007, Kase first learned about the Tour de Cure~R ride in central Pennsylvania. "That's what I like to call my get-up-off-the-couch moment," he says. "It wasn't like I wasn't already engaged, because the moment your son is diagnosed, you're all over it. I thought [the Tour] was a great way to have a public and visual reminder that there are other people out there and other people looking to help him."