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Leesburg Police Spread Holiday Cheer

The local department, in partnership with the Leesburg Police Citizen Support Team, gave ten children $200 each, to spend freely at the Leesburg Target.

 

Ten children from the Town of Leesburg got a chance to do something different on Dec. 19...shop for Christmas presents with a Leesburg Police Officer.

This is the first year that sponsored the event due to Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #70 closing its doors this year. Officers of the department wanted to make sure those children less fortunate than others would have the chance to go shopping for Christmas.  

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The department sponsored their own “Holidays With the Cops” in partnership with the Leesburg Police Citizen Support Team. The initial goal was to raise enough money for five children shopping and let them spend two hundred dollars.  

Support was so strong that ten children, identified through the Leesburg Parks and Recreation “ROCK “ program, got to go shopping and spend two hundred dollars on whatever they wanted. 

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The department sponsored a “pre-shopping party” that was attended by the officers, the children and many volunteers that were there to help wrap the presents. Wegmans and Chick-fil-a donated much of the food and drinks for the party. 

During the shopping event, children were escorted to the Target in Leesburg, where they paired up with an officer and shopped to their hearts content. Items purchased included bikes, toys and clothes. One child even bought his family a Christmas tree while another bought sodas for the officers to drink since he had a little money left over. All of the children received gift bags from Target and Pillow Pets donated by a private citizen.

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