Perhaps Rip Wagner should have been a mailman instead of an educator. Snow, rain, heat, nor gloom of day stays the former elementary school physical education teacher from completing one of his daily appointed rounds: a trek over the Causeway on foot while navigating the challenges of Huntington’s disease.

“They have found that movement and exercise really helps with slowing the progression,” Rip’s wife, Janice Wagner, said. “And Rip takes it very seriously.”