This weekend is the Richard S. Caliguiri Great Race, named for the late former Pittsburgh mayor.
It’s been almost 40 years since Caliguiri died, but the annual event continues to raise money to fight the disease that took his life at age 56 — a disease few at the time had ever heard of.
“We had no idea what it was,” remembers Ron Klink. As an anchor and reporter for KDKA-TV News in 1987, he was among the many local journalists who had to learn how to pronounce “amyloidosis.”…