County, Syracuse Police Officers Raise Money For Area Schools’ Unpaid Lunch Assistance
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Several of the 53 participating Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department deputies returned to the Justice Building Thursday evening to end their month-long “No Shave November” event.
Sheriff’s deputies, confinement officers and reserve deputies had been allowed to grow beards during November by Sheriff Rocky Goshert. The Syracuse Police Department also participated this year in the event with multiple officers to aid in the fundraising.
Officers were asked to donate $20 to participate, which culminated in the deputies raising over $1,000 to present to local schools to offset unpaid lunch balances at those schools.
The schools that were presented with the donation for the unpaid school lunches were Syracuse, Leesburg, Madison, Eisenhower and Claypool elementary school. All of the schools are assigned locations for daily patrol by the officers who participated in the event.
Local barbers Bob and Nelson Conley provided officers with a free shave Thursday evening.
Cpl. Mike Fowler originated the event, and is already making plans to continue to grow the event next year to continue aiding the community.
Goshert expressed his pleasure with the outcome of this year’s event and was happy to accompany Fowler to several schools on Monday to present the unpaid lunch assistance to those locations.
