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Children ‘Shop with a Hero’
Published December 11, 2009
LOGANVILLE — Public safety officials got to show their compassionate side Saturday for the annual Shop with a Hero program.
As in previous years, the Church at the Grove partnered with Wal-Mart and some other businesses in the area to give children considered to be “at risk” the opportunity to share a shopping experience with a member of law enforcement.
“We were able to shop for more children this year,” said Loganville Police Chief Mike McHugh. “The Loganville Fire Department helped raise the extra money with a boot drive and we’ve got members from several other agencies represented here.”
As well as the Loganville Police Department, the Loganville Fire Department and the Walton County Sheriff’s Office, there were also members from the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office, the Gwinnett County Fire Department, the Monroe Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Gwinnett Rental Center donated a large tent.
“These children are chosen specifically because it’s been determined they might not have had a positive experience with law enforcement in the past,” McHugh said. “The economy also plays a role, but it is more to let them see another side of law enforcement.”
The children were each given $75 to spend on themselves and family members and were escorted through Wal-Mart by a member of law enforcement. They were then given an opportunity to have the gifts wrapped so there is something under the Christmas tree for the child and his or her family.
Resurrecting Hope, another project that works with members of The Church at the Grove, has a similar project scheduled for Dec. 20 at the Stone Mountain Wal-Mart — the annual AUM Mission Christmas Project.
“It is similar to the Shop with a Hero Project in that we raise money to help Atlanta’s homeless women go shopping for their children at Christmas,” said Dave Crewey, president of Resurrecting Hope.
Crewey said this year there are even more homeless mothers and children making for a more difficult task but he was confident the organization would prevail, “as it always does.”
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