Shop with a Cop is a holiday tradition for local law enforcement and COVID-19 wasnât about to get in the way of the giving.
If anything, the program received an even bigger response from the community, according to Ludington Police Officer Chad Skiba.
With the assistance of school counselors, children are selected each year from Mason County schools to pair up with local law enforcement and shop for Christmas items for themselves and their families.
The event is run by volunteers and made possible through community donations and fundraisers like the pie auction hosted by the police department.
âItâs fun to do it,â said Skiba, who has organized the event for the past seven years. âIt runs like a greased wheel at this point. The school counselors do a lot of the work behind the scenes.â
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SCOTTVILLE â Four candidates are vying for an open spot on the Mason County Central Board of Education, and a new trustee will be selected Monday.
Oscar Davila, Steven Griswold, Tom McLouth and Rebecca Frederick have each submitted letters of interest to fill the vacancy left by long-time trustee Jeff Barnett on Nov. 16.
The board will hear from each of them during an interview session from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. prior to the start of the regular meeting at 7. Both the interviews and the regular meeting will be held via the Google Meet video-conferencing, due to the ongoing pandemic.
The public can access the meeting by visiting www.meet.google.com/dve-ivkc-uxa. To join by phone, call (419) 718-1353, and enter 534724436 as the PIN.