Jamie Schlehuber of Standish helps her husband, Damon, cut the ribbon for the Maine Walk to Defeat ALS at Deering Oaks park in Portland on Sunday. “ALS takes our ability to walk, to talk, to take care of ourselves,” John Peffer, a patient from Kittery, told the crowd. Peffer wore a gold lanyard with a key on the end to identify him as living with ALS. Walkers honoring someone living with the disease wore blue key lanyards; those walking for someone who died wore white ones; and general supporters wore red ones. The Portland walk was the third ALS fundraiser of the weekend for Peffer.