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Annual Fill The Boot Drive Tops $22,000
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Jennifer Cannon pours money from turnout boots into a collection bucket at a previous Fill the Boot drive to benefit the Firefighters Burn Institute. Times File Photo
With a limited number of volunteers – but plenty of willing donors – the Escalon Fire Department’s Fill The Boot drive netted over $22,000 this past weekend. Coordinator Jennifer Cannon said she was extremely pleased with the effort, both from volunteers who collected the donations and the motorists who provided them. Firefighters, in their turnout gear and armed with boots in which to collect the donations, were stationed at the main intersection of Escalon-Bellota Road-Highway 120-McHenry Avenue for several hours on both Saturday and Sunday, April 28 and 29.