Shop With A Cop program will aid 120 kids in need

The Annual Shop with a Cop Program kicks off Saturday with area law enforcement authorities and volunteers from the base helping children from poor families buy Christmas gifts for their family members.

Shop with a Cop will begin at 7:30 a.m. Saturday morning with breakfast in the commons room at Mountain Home Junior High School. The local McDonald's in Mountain Home will furnish breakfast for the children and volunteers.

After breakfast, the children are given rides in police vehicles, fire trucks, military vehicles and other emergency service vehicles to the Mountain Home Walmart. The caravan, with sirens blaring, will travel from the junior high down South Sixth Street to Tenth East Street, then up to American Legion Boulevard to Walmart, where the children will shop for Christmas with their chaperone from 9-11:30 a.m.

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