WHAT:     MDA Fill the Boot 

WHEN:     Thursday, August 21^st, D-shift (off going A-shift) 

TIME:       A-shifters- morning after shift, members who live locally-afternoon, all day, or even one hour.  It all helps. 

You choose WHERE:                                                                               

(Please call the contact person of the location you would like to volunteer.) 

     · Mercer St & Fairview Ave (Theresa Purtell 253.221.8093)

     · NE Pacific St. & Montlake Blvd NE (Dallas Baker 206.780.3650)

     · 10 Ave E & E Roanoke St (Erina Queen 206.852.4809)

     · 15 Ave NW & NW Market St (Brandon Smith 206.999.1466)

     · Greenwood Ave NW & NW 85 St (Stephen Eney 206.604.3243)

     · Queen Anne Ave N & N Boston St (Mark Frazer 253.853.4243)

     · Fauntleroy & 35 Ave SW (Dennis Karl 206.550.1418) 

WHY:     Our fundraising efforts help to ensure MDA clients, in our local community, receive life-enhancing and life-saving services, as well as benefit from advances in neuromuscular research.                

For example, some of the funds we raise help send local clients to the MDA Summer Fun Camp in North Bend. I can report first hand that these funds change the lives of our local clients, their families, and the volunteers that help at the summer camp. Spending a week with a 6-year-old boy afflicted with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) was life changing for myself and Kristine Gill (FMO) who also volunteered at the camp last summer, spending a week with a 7 year boy with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD).  

IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger announced the union's endorsement of Senator Barack Obama for president of the United States August 14 during the IAFF 2008 Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada.

 Praising his support of fire fighters and working families, Schaitberger said, "On every issue important to fire fighters, Senator Obama is and has been in our corner. The IAFF is the most bipartisan union in the AFL-CIO, and we support those who support us. We can't overlook Senator McCain's service to our country, but we also can't overlook his poor record on issues critical to the financial security of our 290,000 members."

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