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Show (-' - 1 , - - f J I ... , L Panguitch Police Chief Martin Nay took these Panguitch youngsters to Cedar City to participate in K-Mart's Shop-With-A-Cop program Saturday. Officer Kevin Moore assisted Nay with the day's activities so that happy kids could enjoy it all. Five Panguitch Youngsters Shop-With-A-Cop Or Two PANGUITCH Five youngsters young-sters from Panguitch were among 35 young people ages 2 to 15 who were included in the one-day "Shop-With-A-Cop shopping event in Cedar City at K-Mart. Similar events were taking place throughout Utah and the rest of the U.S. as the K-Mart-originated project was repeated re-peated in communities nationwide. Panguitch Police Chief Martin Nay and Officer Kevin Moore made arrangements for Panguitch area young people to take part. Company Com-pany representative Cherie Judd, who coordinated the event at the Cedar City said it has become so successful that it has many imitators imita-tors everywhere. Judd worked with Nay and officer offi-cer Moore in readying the five young Panguitch shoppers selected to take part in the program. Their day started with an exciting ride to Cedar City in the official police vehicle. ve-hicle. In Cedar City, with sirens screaming and lights flashing, they were treated to breakfast at JB's, an area restaurant that joins hands with K-Mart in sponsoring the special day. Later, At K-Mart, each youngster young-ster received a personal gift and a S40 gift certificate to spend in the store. Accompanied by the officers and many of the store's "elves" on their spending spree, the five had lots of help with their decisionmaking. decision-making. Judd said she has often seen the officers dip into their own pockets for money when the See Shop With Cops Page 4 A . Shop-With-A-Cop From Page 1 youngsters spend their certificate money on other family members and have no money left for themselves. them-selves. "If they ever pulled me off this project it would take away my whole Christmas," said Judd". The first year of the "Shop-With-A-Cop" campaign, they sponsored 20 participants, the second year She also said this is "like the best Christmas present ever." Now in its third year, K-Mart works with local law enforcement officer locally and from surrounding shopping areas. They try to reach families that really have a "need" and try hard not to repeat families from year to year. The need is always al-ways great. This year had 35 young people from age 2 to age 15 that were included in-cluded in the one-day shopping event. First year of program they sponsored 20 participants; and last year, 30. K-Mart launches each year's project with a $500 in-store donation, and employees are responsible re-sponsible for raising the rest of the funds for their project. This year's pre-shopping fund-raisers yielded about $1,400 from such activities as their "Kiss-A-Pig" contest and stuffed pups which they sold. Local Lo-cal law enforcement personnel took part, along with Iron County Sheriff Sher-iff Ira Schoppmann and Iron County Attorney Scott Burns. |