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Mar 9, 2021
A rendering of the patch. Photo courtesy: Calib LaRue
The Wareham Police Department is raising money for the Boston Children’s Hospital through the sale of special Irish-themed Wareham Police patches.
The patches will be for sale at Stone Path Malt from March 17 to March 20. Each $10 patch purchase will include a $5 donation to Boston Children’s Hospital.
For each patch, customers will also get a $5 credit toward their bill at Stone Path Malt.
On March 19, Mike Hynes will be playing Irish music at Stone Path Malt from 4 to 9 p.m. Stone Path is open from 4 to 9 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturdays.
The Wareham Police Department, community members, High Point Treatment Center and Fight Back: Addiction and Mental Health Counseling have teamed up to form a new Wareham Community Outreach Program to provide resources and support to those struggling with addiction and their families.
The Wareham Police Department noted in a release that the addiction crisis has worsened during the pandemic, with overdoses nationally up 42 percent per month as compared to 2019.
“The Wareham Police Department is committed to ‘Wake Up’ our great community in an epic fight to bridge the gap between substance use, support, treatment, and recovery by providing the highest quality of training and support on a community level for substance users and their families to fight any type of addiction,” read a press release.
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