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‘Fill the Boot’ Event Saturday

CalFire firefighters will be out in the Brunswick Basin and South County on Saturday collecting money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. It’s the annual ‘Fill the Boot’ campaign, and Cal Fire’s Nevada-Yuba-Placer unit is participating for the tenth straight year. M-D-A Fundraising Coordinator Lorisa Nelson says the association covers a range of muscular illnesses, and great progress has made over the last few years…

Listen to Lorisa Nelson 1

The firefighters raised close to five-thousand dollars last year, but Nelson says the drive wasn’t as well organized as in previous years. They raised close to 32-thousand dollars in 2014…

Listen to Lorisa Nelson 2

They are hoping for a higher amount this year, with your help. The firefighters will be at the intersection of Brunswick Road and Sutton Way, and at Magnolia Road and Combie Road from 9am to 3pm.

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