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Volume 10 Issue 1 - February 1999
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S.H. 249 Store Front
Northwest Community League News
Paulann Alleman, Executive Director
Many lives were touched by the Sheriff Deputies of the
S.H. 249 Store Front with the support of the Northwest Community League.
We are proud to announce that we had 60 K.O.P.S. graduate from the S.H.
249 Store Front in the year 1998. There was a total of 186 R.A.D.
graduates. The North District of the Sheriff’s Department has had
18 more Citizen’s Police Academy (CPA) graduates to complete the course.
The equipment has arrived and the instructors have been
trained. The Store Front Deputies have begun the R.A.D. for Kids
classes. The plan is to have 12 classes this year - one class per
month.
We started the year with three deputies, R. Cunningham,
A. Lemon, and L. Peterson. Deputy Peterson left the Store Front to
assume her new duties with Crime Prevention. The “new” Store Front
Deputies that joined the “S.H. 249 Store Front staff are: J. Herndon,
J. McGowen, K. Hardin, S. Cerda, and D. Esquivel.
The Northwest Community League takes great pride in the
success of the S.H. 249 Store Front programs and accomplishments.
The most recent being the Adopt-A-Family 98 for the holidays. This
program was a great success. The many generous donations from the
community, the time of the volunteers, and the hard work of Deputy Lemon
made a nicer Thanksgiving and Christmas for many of our neighbors.
Thank you to the Store Front Deputies who helped Deputy Lemon shop, sort
and deliver dinners and gifts. Great team work is what it is all
about.
Thanksgiving. A total of 24 families received a
fully cooked, 10 -12 lb Butterball turkey, cornbread dressing, giblet gravy,
cranberry nut salad, one dozen dinner rolls, and one apple pie. Also,
each family received two dozen eggs, peanut butter, bread, milk, juice
drink, fruit and nut basket. The two larger families (8 or more people)
also received a Ham dinner with a pumpkin pie and double the extra groceries.
Christmas. On December 6th, Ashbury’s 60 Bar &
Java House had a fund raiser for Adopt-A-Family 98 Project called Neighbor
helping Neighbor. On December 7th, the league was presented with
a cashier check for six thousand four hundred and sixty four dollars from
Ashbury’s. Each child on the Adopt-A-Family list, received one or
more gifts from their wish list instead of a “token gift” that we had originally
planned. Thanks John Gregg and the patrons of Ashbury’s 60’s Bar
& Java House for a most generous donation.
Deputies Lemon, Herndon, McGowen, Kim Warhol (President
of CPA Alumni) and Paulann Alleman, (President of NCL) met at Walmart several
days at 7:00 AM to shop for the children. The gifts were taken to
Klein Forest High School where we were met by the Klein Forest High School
Drill Team,(the Gold Dusters) and the Klein Forest High School Student
Council. They wrapped and labeled all of the purchased gifts to be
given for the children. This was truly a community effort of neighbor
helping neighbor.
Each family was delivered Christmas wrapped gifts for
the children, a family gift, turkey dinners, and a Poinsettia plant.
The Board of Directors of the Northwest Community League
met and voted to purchase the gifts on the last 20 cards that the Sheriff’s
Office was holding for Bank One. Paulann Alleman, Peggy Porter, John
Williams and Deputy Herndon went shopping and delivered the gifts to Bank
One.
The generosity of the Willowood Water Board to put Northwest
Community League, Inc. as a volunteer donation on the water bill allowed
the League to concentrate their energy toward assisting the deputies in
community programs instead of orchestrating fund raisers. Thank You WCID
#133 and the residents of Willowood Subdivision for support the S.H. 249
Store Front in 1998.
1998 was a good year. We are projecting for 1999
to be even better. |
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