CMP Employee “Jailed”
for Muscular Dystrophy Association

By Dale Miles, CMP Staff Writer

Recently, there was a slight disturbance at CMP South Headquarters in Anniston, Alabama. It seems that the Civilian Marksmanship Program had been harboring a person of questionable character for quite some time. CMP Clerk Sharron Wautelet was taken into custody by authorities and soon locked away for good deeds done helping the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

Local authorities rounded up CMP employee Sharron Wautelet last week in an effort to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Sharron’s efforts and giving of her time raised $2517 for the MDA.

Wait a minute? Locked up for GOOD deeds? Sharron, as part of a recent effort to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association sponsored by the Anniston Chamber of Commerce, volunteered to have herself locked up behind bars. To free her from her cell, bail had to be raised in the form of donations to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. While in the slammer, Sharron could make more than one phone call…calling the good folks at CMP Headquarters, CMP Board Members, her doctor, her minister, as well as friends and family to raise her bail. And she was successful! All together, Sharron raised $2517 to be donated to the MDA.

Sharron's mug shot from behind bars.

“It really wasn’t that bad,” said Sharron, “they fed me and when I was released I got a limo ride back to work.”

No stranger to good deeds, Sharron is actively involved in her community. Besides the work she does for the CMP, Sharron is active in her church, volunteers her time as a Big Sister to underprivileged children and even gave up her vacation to help others. Along with the youth group from her church, she traveled South of the border to Matamoras, Mexico where she worked with AIM Adventures and Missions to construct a new roof for a small, rural church as well as other projects for the less fortunate people of that area. It seems helping people is just part of who Sharron is, and she doesn’t intend to stop.

“I would love to get locked up again,” Sharron stated, “any time you have the chance to help so many children by doing something so simple it is very worth doing.”

For more information about the Muscular Dystrophy Association as well as to find out how you can help this worthy cause, go to http://www.mdausa.org/home.html.