Police officers, firefighters face off to fundraise

BEREA, Ky. (LEX 18) — As we attack the extremity of the month, immoderate organizations are making last pushes for No Shave November donations.

There's a spot of a affable contention going connected successful Berea betwixt firefighters and constabulary officers. As always, their extremity end is inactive to support the community.

Both departments person assorted facial hairsbreadth policies. This month, connected the different hand, it's a spot lenient for a bully reason.

"These person been challenging times implicit the past year," said Chief Eric Scott with the Berea Police Department. "If there's thing we tin bash arsenic enactment implicit astatine our departments, it's to bring backmost amusive to the workforce."

Scott came up with the idea. Proceeds volition spell close backmost into the community.

"We effort to bash the champion we tin to rise arsenic overmuch money," Scott said. "And we figured if we're going to bash this, wherefore not marque it fun?"

The Berea Police Association and the firefighters each person their abstracted approaches to helping kids for the holiday.

"We coordinate with household assets networks for each schoolhouse and they find america a database of names and we spell that way," said Matt Kenney with the constabulary department. "Each kid gets a acceptable magnitude of wealth that we divided 60/40 of wants and needs."

"We inquire what the kid likes and we acquisition that arsenic a group, and past we springiness those to the parents to springiness to the kids, truthful our 2 organizations are different, but we're inactive going aft the aforesaid kids," said Chief Shawn Sandlin with the Berea Fire Department.

Scott says the meaning down the contention is two-fold, hoping to besides fortify different bond.

"We're truly genuinely trying to foster the narration betwixt instrumentality enforcement, archetypal responders, firemen successful the community," Scott said.

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