MDA Lock-Up today

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One of my co-workers just got “arrested”. Any one else getting taken to the stadium today?

From May 12th’s Jaxdailyrecord.com

The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) has issued arrest warrants for 250 Downtown community leaders who will be “Locked-Up” to benefit MDA May 28 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

The “jailbirds” have been charged with having big hearts and must now do the time that suits the crime. Upon apprehension by MDA officers, bail raisers will be booked and processed and their sentence is to serve time at MDA’s maximum appreciation jail site at the West Club of Jacksonville Municipal Stadium. The goal for the event is to raise $150,000.

Funds raised by the “Lock-Up” give MDA, a voluntary health agency, the means to continue providing direct services, research, and professional and public health education to children and adults with neuromuscular diseases in North Florida and South Georgia. MDA provides assistance in the purchases of wheelchairs, leg braces and communication devices for its clients and offers several support groups. Individuals can also visit MDA’s clinics in Gainesville at Shands Hospital or in Jacksonville at Nemours Children’s Clinic and Mayo Clinic. This year’s MDA summer camp, Camp Love, will take place at Epworth by the Sea in St. Simons Island, Ga. June 13-19.

MDA (www.mda.org) is a nonprofit organization funded almost entirely by individual private contributors and is the number one provider of neuromuscular research. The voluntary health agency works to defeat more than 40 neuromuscular diseases through programs of worldwide research, comprehensive services and far-reaching professional and public health education. MDA also has more than 200 offices across the country, 230 hospital-affiliated clinics and supports nearly 400 research projects around the world.

For more information about “Lock-Up” events or MDA, contact Brittany Duke at 296-7434, or visit the Web site at www.mda.org.

[Captain Zissou]

My sister is currently "locked up".  As of last night she was pretty close to making bail, so I hope she will only have to do a couple hours in the slammer.