Elmer O Boyle took a break from flipping hamburgers as he watched two Shelby Police Department officers push away their plates, dash to their cruisers and rush to a call Saturday afternoon. And there they go, O Boyle said grinning behind his Back the Blue mask and turning back to his griddle. Go get them.
O Boyle and other volunteers fed more than a dozen law enforcement officers and nurses in the first hour of their Back the Blue cook out Saturday afternoon in the parking lot of the Cleveland County Courthouse.
For him, the cookout was a chance to recognize the mostly unsung work the county s law enforcement, firefighters, medics and first responders perform each day.