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Last Updated: Nov 14, 2008 - 12:49:26 PM |
By the time that you read this article, fire departments everywhere will be in the midst of this year’s Fill the Boot campaign. This one endeavor raises monies for research and resources for those stricken with muscular dystrophy. The hope is that a cure will one day be found, but until then the search continues.
With this in mind, as you see your firefighters in the many venues, don’t walk to another entrance; instead, help us to help others. We take pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half dollars, dollar coins, dollar bills, five-dollar bills, ten-dollar bills, twenty-dollar bills, fifty-dollar bills, hundred-dollar bills, and beyond. We will even take a non-bouncing check written to the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
I wish that all of you could meet Virginia’s Good Will Ambassador for MDA, Rebecca Denius. Rebecca suffers from a form of muscular dystrophy, but works hard to encourage firefighters to keep on plugging for funds to help her, and others like her. Her smile brightens any room, and each of us feels privileged to know her. Rebecca has allowed us to put a beautiful face to those that we have sought to help for so many years. Rebecca has asked each of us to keep on filling the boot, even if she dies before a cure is found.
The economy has affected all of us, but we cannot let that stop us in this cause. I have had people want to make donations to the fire department for every reason under the sun. Well, this is one of those times that we will accept your money. I would love for this year to be the last year that we would have to “Fill the Boot,” due to the fact that a cure had been found, and muscular dystrophy had been eradicated from the face of the earth. I pray that this will be the year that we raise far beyond what has been raised in the past. God bless each of you as you give from your heart.
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