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'Time Is Not On Our Side': Beloved Restaurateur In Capital Region Seeking Kidney Donor 'Time Is Not On Our Side': Beloved Restaurateur In Capital Region Seeking Kidney Donor
'Time Is Not On Our Side': Beloved Restaurateur In Capital Region Seeking Kidney Donor A beloved chef and restaurateur known for giving back to the community is now turning to that same community in desperate need of help. Chef Yono Purnomo, founder of Yono’s Indonesian restaurant in Albany, suffers from kidney failure that has progressed to end stage renal failure. In early October, doctors told him he would need a live kidney donation. “It hit us both like a ton of bricks,” Yono’s wife Donna said on a Facebook page dedicated to the cause. “We knew based on his declining kidney function over the past few years that dialysis would become a life-saving necessity. We didn’t…

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by Michael Mashburn