Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Yard Sale Garners Money that will bring Christmas Cheer to needy Children
Pikeville - Last year the Pikeville Police Department had a vision.
That vision consisted of smiles on children’s faces. Children who otherwise may not have gotten everything on their Christmas wish list. So the Pikeville PD instituted their own version of the Shop with A Cop program to be able to take underprivileged children out for a Christmas lunch and then on to Wal-Mart where they are allowed to buy whatever their young hearts desire.
Last Year the program was able to fund shopping sprees for ten children, but officials with the police department didn’t feel that those were enough children.
So this year the Police department decided to hold several fundraisers throughout the year in order to garner what they hope will be enough money to be able to send at least twenty children shopping this year.
According to Officer Tony Conn, this year’s car wash put on by the police department was a resounding success with over one hundred vehicles getting a scrub down with all of the money going to the departments funds to be able to take the children shopping.
After a smaller yard sale was held earlier this year, officials decided to go all out and hold a gigantic yard sale on Saturday September 30, with people lining up to go shopping before the yard sale even got started.
According to Sgt. Eddie Sword, the Pikeville Fire Department, who hosted the yard sale at their Chloe Creek Department, was calling over to the Police Department around 7:30, waiting for officials to arrive with goods that ranged from a wide variety of clothing items, tools and many other household odds and ends.
That vision consisted of smiles on children’s faces. Children who otherwise may not have gotten everything on their Christmas wish list. So the Pikeville PD instituted their own version of the Shop with A Cop program to be able to take underprivileged children out for a Christmas lunch and then on to Wal-Mart where they are allowed to buy whatever their young hearts desire.
Last Year the program was able to fund shopping sprees for ten children, but officials with the police department didn’t feel that those were enough children.
So this year the Police department decided to hold several fundraisers throughout the year in order to garner what they hope will be enough money to be able to send at least twenty children shopping this year.
According to Officer Tony Conn, this year’s car wash put on by the police department was a resounding success with over one hundred vehicles getting a scrub down with all of the money going to the departments funds to be able to take the children shopping.
After a smaller yard sale was held earlier this year, officials decided to go all out and hold a gigantic yard sale on Saturday September 30, with people lining up to go shopping before the yard sale even got started.
According to Sgt. Eddie Sword, the Pikeville Fire Department, who hosted the yard sale at their Chloe Creek Department, was calling over to the Police Department around 7:30, waiting for officials to arrive with goods that ranged from a wide variety of clothing items, tools and many other household odds and ends.
# posted by Justin Mullins @ 1:19 PM 
