Greendale fire fighters hope to raise more than $11,000 during their annual street side collection for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
The fire fighters will remove their boots to collect money from motorists and pedestrians at 76th Street and Grange Avenue on Friday, from 2:30-7 p.m. and Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
All donations will benefit local MDA clients and services like sending children and young adults to MDA Summer Camp in Camp Lake, funding clinic visits at Froedtert Memorial Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, and financing wheelchair repairs.
The department raised more than $10,000 last year and hopes to surpass that during this year’s collection to benefit more than 700 families that benefit locally from the money raised in South Eastern WI from the fill the boot drives.
MDA’s Fill-the-Boot program is supported by the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) and non-union fire departments across North America. Last year, Wisconsin fire fighters raised $610,000 for MDA.
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