BERWYN – The women of Old Fashioned Candies, 6210 Cermak Road, are known to have a sweet tooth. Through a raffle at the store Friday, they’re showing their sweet side, too.

Old Fashioned Candies will raffle off a 3-foot-tall, 20-pound chocolate bunny named Giant George at their store Friday, with the proceeds of the raffle going to support the Muscular Dystrophy Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated to finding treatments and cures for muscular dystrophy.

A minimum donation of $1 is required to participate in the raffle. Participants can write their name on an Easter cutout that will be displayed in the storefront’s windows.

Old Fashion Candies owners Lynn White, Donna Greenwald, Sandra Figatner and Karyn Downey said they’re doing the raffle to support a good friend of their shop Paula Nagle.

Nagle’s nephew, Mike McAdam, 26, of River Forest was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a muscular disorder resulting from a mutation on the X chromosome.

Nagle went to the candy shop looking for sponsorship for her team May 16 at the Muscular Dystrophy Association Muscle Walk in Wheaton.

“We make George every year and Paula [Nagle] asked us if we would be willing to donate him and do a raffle,” owner Lynn White said of the store’s involvement. “He’s worth about $225 – and that’s a deal when you considered what a Hershey bar costs.”

To date, Nagle’s team has received $12,000 in contributions for the walk, and her friends at the candy store have raised $700 thus far for the raffle of Giant George.

“We are so thrilled,” Nagle said. “People have responded so well to this.”

The MDA Muscle Walk will begin at 10 a.m. May 16 at Cantigny Park, 1s151 S. Winfield Road, Wheaton.