Operation: Back the Blue
This week Patty Valentine and a team of volunteers help spread some encouragement to police officers in Fredonia, NY. They put together and delivered over 300 bags throughout the county. Patty said about the effort: “There are many ways to describe the job of a police officer, some would say thankless, but as a child I watched my father work and retire from the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Department and as an adult my brother.” She added, “I would say now, thankful, prideful, one whom would put their lives on the line for a complete stranger, justice, humanity, service, and on and on. Given the times today I felt the need to let these men, women, and K9 officers know ‘We care,’ they are needed, they are loved and appreciated.”