Shop with a Cop program brings joy to area youth

RITZVILLE – A dozen kids got to shop with a cop Saturday, Dec. 12. The program, organized by Police Chief Dave McCormick, has been going on for a couple decades, and while concessions had to be made this year due to COVID-19 restrictions, the event provided a great deal of joy, based on the smiles all around.

Etenia Slater-Burns, Sequoia Slater-Burns, Chaska Slater -Burns, Jaxon Duchesneau, Michealah Sherman, Samantha Cody, Erickah Cody, Lana Adamson, Aiden Instasi, Dante Reynolds, Tobias Reynolds, and Riker Miller were taken shopping at participating businesses Memories Hidden Treasures, the...