By Guy Chapman
Early mornings are not for everyone. But for the folks who showed up at the Chamber parking lot on North Twelfth Street on Tuesday morning, there was plenty to be thankful for
Community leaders hosted the fifth annual Appreciation Breakfast for National Police Week, drawing a solid crowd of police officers and first responders despite the hour.
Breakfast ran from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m., with food hand-cooked and served by hand from the event organizers.
Organizer Barbara Kelley and Curran Oakley, coalition coordinator of Impact Communities, were among the many who put this year’s event together. Both women came to it with some history.
“Barbara and I are former dispatchers, so the police have a special place in our hearts, so we got together and decided to start doing this,” Oakley said. “And it has just grown and grown.”
Within those last five years, the impact is apparent. Kelley, Oakley, Mari Worley, Johnny Guerra, Kamar Chambers, Crystal Richardson and representatives from VERO Fiber, Navarro College and Dutch Bros. Coffee all had a hand in putting the meal together Tuesday morning.
“We just get together and honor the lives of our officers, and the ones that we’ve lost as well,” Kelley said.
The theme, as in years past, was simple: “Honoring Heroes Past & Present.”
National Police Week runs May 11-17 each year, set aside to recognize law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty and to honor those still serving.
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