FIRST ANNUAL MDA ONLINE AUCTION

DALLAS/FT. WORTH, TX, August 20, 2007 – The Muscular Dystrophy Association is hosting it’s first-ever MDA Telethon Online Auction in the DFW area. The auction will be held in conjunction with the MDA Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon and will be open for bidding in one month on August 20 through September 6, 2007. Items already donated to the auction include vacation get-a-ways, a 2007 Jeep Wrangler, a $10,000 catered dinner on the Cowboys field at Texas Stadium, season tickets to the 2007 Dallas Cowboys home games, and a “Vespa” Scooter. Sponsors of the event include Sonic, Kroger, and KXAS-TV, NBC 5.

If you’re interested in participating, MDA is still seeking great packages for the online auction. If you would like to donate an item or wish to become a sponsor, MDA will link your company’s website to the online auction site, which is being emailed out to over 120,000 people in DFW. The online auction will also be linked to the NBC 5 website at www.nbc5i.com. To check out the preliminary MDA Telethon online auction or to donate items visit www.mdadfw.cmarket.com.

This year marks the 42nd annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon and MDA hopes to make the MDA Telethon Online Auction a continuing tradition as well. The funds raised from the online auction will enable MDA to provide the very best in patient care and services, including clinic visits, orthopedic equipment, support groups, summer camps, and a worldwide research effort seeking treatments and cures for the 43 neuromuscular diseases covered by the association. In North Texas alone there are over 3,000 families who are affected by neuromuscular disease.

MDA ( www.mda.org ) is a voluntary health agency working to provide programs of worldwide research, comprehensive services, and far-reaching professional and public health education for neuromuscular diseases. For more information about the MDA Telethon Online Auction, which goes live August 20 through Sept. 6, 2007, please contact Carmen Holmes at cholmes@mdausa.org. Also, don’t forget to watch the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon, broadcast on Sept. 3, 2007 on KXAS-TV, NBC 5.