NORTH HAVEN, Conn. (WFSB) - A special event is coming up this weekend that’s very personal for a local man. He went blind while he was in college, but now he’s making a mark by making a difference for others.

Sometimes in life, you have to take a leap of faith. For 50-year-old Aaron Vnuk, it’s more like a leap of “blind” faith.

Aaron lost his vision when he was 19. He was a baseball player at Central Connecticut State University when he was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa. Soon, it was total darkness.

“There was no cure. I had no choices. You know, there was nothing anybody can do. I literally had to exchange my baseball bat, you know, for this white cane,” said Aaron Vnuk of Blind Faith CrossFit.

But that hasn’t stopped him.

With his wife Lauren by his side, they run a CrossFit g

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