Brookshire Grocery Co. employees and customers raised money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association through the annual Check Out A Cure program in which cashiers sell $1 paper icons.

The effort raised more than $92,000 to provide healthcare, equipment and summer camps for children with neuromuscular diseases throughout Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi.

Pictured are Rick Rayford, president and CEO of BGC, Meredith Honeycutt, MDA program coordinator, Blake Bowden, MDA ambassador

and fourth grader at Athens Intermediate School

(with canine companion, Obi) and Brian Johnson, vice president-district 1 manager.

A check for $80,000, which represents donations from the East Texas Check Out A Cure program in the amount of $27,000 and the Aisles of Smiles program sponsored by Acosta Sales and Marketing in the amount of $53,000 was issued to the MDA.

Published 11/4/08