Golden Ranch Bar-B-Q was awarded a certificate of appreciation Wednesday for its fundraising efforts to benefit children and adults affected by muscular dystrophy.

The Selma Fire Department, which annually raises money to fight the degenerative muscle disease through its Fill the Boot program, and Muscular Dystrophy Association presented the award to the restaurant after it raised $750 in May.

The restaurant sold stickers customers could buy for $1 or $5 and displayed them prominently around the restaurant.

“We would ask every customer if they would like to donate a dollar,” Nick Stevens, co-owner of Golden Ranch, said. “We took their cards of $1 or $5 or whatever they asked to donate and we filled up the walls. It was wall-to-wall MDA stickers for a whole month.”

Angie Jordin, executive director of the South Alabama office of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, said it was incredible how much money Golden Ranch was able to raise over such a short period of time.

“It is a huge deal. That’s probably $20 or $30 a day,” Jordin said. “The folks here were really pushing the program and driving it hard.”

The money is going to the Muscular Dystrophy Association, which is the world’s leading nonprofit health agency dedicated to saving and improving the lives of anyone with the disease.

The Fill the Boot campaign first started in 1953 and raised $5,000 in donations.

In 2013, the nationwide campaign raised a total of $26.2 million, and more than 100,000 fire fighters participated.

The Selma Fire Department has teamed up with MDA since 1998 with its Fill the Boot campaign, where firefighters stand in front of area stores and encourage shoppers to donate money to help fight the life-threatening muscle disease.

This year’s Fill the Boot campaign started in May and will run through the end of June.

The Selma Fire Department will be raising money at Walmart Friday, June 13 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday, June 14 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Saturday, June 21 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Friday, June 27 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.