Fill the Boot--- Thanks to the Round Lake Firefighters

The Round Lake Area Union firefighters was collecting donations for the Muscular Dystrophy Association at the intersection of Cedar Lake rd. and Route 134. This is thier 3rd year collecting and over the last 2 they have collected over $14,000.00 for this charity. The Organization they belong to is the I.A.F.F. International Association of Fire Fighters and has been collecting for MDA for over 50 years and this is the biggest charity that they collect for besides making donations to the area burn camp. Just some history for you when you see signs that say Fill the Boot for MDA they collect donations in firefighters boots just like they did when they started collecting 50 years ago.

The union and its members have given back to the community in many ways also besides the MDA collection. They have made monetary donations to the cancer charities for one of the fire district employee'’s in her memory and the same for a dear friend that was a Grayslake firefighter who also passed from this terrible illness.

Last year they adopted a local family whose daughter has some major medical problems and her parents weren'’t working for this we collected several hundred dollars from thier own members and used the money to buy Christmas gifts for the parents and their children. They have participated in Habitat for Humanities for the last 3 years.