{"id":15862,"date":"2018-07-17T14:14:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T19:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=15862"},"modified":"2018-07-17T14:14:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T19:14:44","slug":"milton-firefighters-raise-87k-for-fill-the-boot-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=15862","title":{"rendered":"Milton Firefighters Raise $87K For Fill The Boot Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Alpharetta Patch<\/a>) \u2013\u00a0\u00a0The generosity of the Milton community is evident, as the Milton Fire-Rescue Department raised more than $87,000 during the 2018\u00a0\u2018Fill the Boot\u2019 fundraising campaign to support the Muscular Dystrophy Association.<\/p>\n

Milton Fire Chief Robert Edgar and members of the Milton Fire-Rescue Department officially presented the donation to Abby Ruffner, Executive Director for MDA at the July 9 City Council Meeting. The mayor and members of the Milton City Council issued a proclamation formally recognizing the fire department for their philanthropic commitment to Georgia families struggling with muscular dystrophy.<\/p>\n

Several local MDA families attended the council meeting to personally express their appreciation for the department\u2019s boot drive efforts. The proceeds collected benefit the\u00a0Camp Twin Lakes<\/a>\u00a0in Rutledge. Each year, firefighters collect at central Milton intersections every other Friday from April through late May.<\/p>\n

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(Alpharetta Patch) \u2013\u00a0\u00a0The generosity of the Milton community is evident, as the Milton […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15864,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15862\/revisions\/15864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}