WACO, Texas – AUGUST 1, 2011 – The Muscular Dystrophy Association will put Waco’s “Most Wanted” business and community leaders “behind bars” for having big hearts on Thursday, August 4 for the Telethon Executive Lock-Up.
Though “jailbirds” are “locked-up,” this penitentiary is actually a fun-filled networking event. Beginning at 11 a.m. on the day of the Lock-Up, the McLennan County Sheriff’s Association will “arrest” jailbirds and escort them to Allen Samuels Dodge Chrysler Jeep for “holding.” Upon arrival, each jailbird will raise bail by calling on friends and family in the Waco area to donate $1,600 to the Association, the cost to send two children to MDA Summer Camp. District Attorney Abel Reyna will be a jailbird, and Allen Samuels Dodge Chrysler Jeep General Manager Ted Teague will act as the celebrity judge for the event.
Jailbirds will be released with a clean record and MDA’s sincerest appreciation for raising funds to help the 250 Central Texas families affected by neuromuscular disease. Funds raised at the Lock-Up support an MDA Clinic at Hillcrest Family Health Clinic and send children to MDA Summer Camp at Camp John Marc in Meridian.
Allen Samuels Dodge Chrysler Jeep will host an MDA Sale-a-thon between August 20 and September 3, where $75 of each car sold goes to MDA. The Lock-Up and Sale-a-thon are preliminary events for MDA’s annual Labor Day Telethon, which will be broadcast in the Waco area Sunday, September 4 from 5:30 p.m. to midnight on News Channel 25.
MDA is the nonprofit health agency dedicated to curing muscular dystrophy, ALS and related diseases by funding worldwide research. The Association also provides comprehensive health care and support services, advocacy, and education. Up-to-date information on MDA can be found at www.MDA.org.
For more information, please contact Cherise Hawkins Myatt at 254-399-8221 or Kelsey McGonigle at 972-480-0070.
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