Lowe's Home Improvement to Hold Carnival this Weekend

 

A big box home improvement store and an international organization are coming together in San Angelo on Saturday for a few hours of fun and fundraising on behalf of the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA).

The annual event will feature a carnival in the Lowe’s parking lot with games, cotton candy, popcorn and an appearance by the local Bandits indoor football team. A drive to raise funds for the MDA will serve as the event’s backdrop, with a goal of raising money the organization can put toward offering flu shots, support groups, therapy sessions, sending children to summer camps and other services.

MDA is a global organization that  seeks to find treatments and cures for nine main forms of muscular dystrophy and more than 30 other neuromuscular diseases. The nonprofit supports nearly 250 research projects worldwide and provides services through 103 field offices in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

Donations made at Saturday’s event will go toward providing services for those with muscular dystrophy on the following breakdown.

A $30 contribution will purchase a flu shot; $100 will cover one support session; $150 is enough for one occupational, physical, respiratory or speech therapy consultation; a $300 contribution will take care of professional fees related to initial diagnostic work-up at an MDA clinic; $500 will cover the annual repairs of durable medical equipment; and $800 will send on child to a weeklong MDA summer camp.

The MDA carnival at Lowe’s Home Improvement will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 21. 

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SanAngeloisLOS…, Sat, 03/21/2015 - 15:15

Sounds like welfare for the good'ole boys,
Or a bunch of empty boot peddling, rattle snake oil slinging, uniform wearing, law inforcement code infringing bunch of horshite

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