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Officers grateful for show of support

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When a group of Ramona High students delivered a stack of letters and a banner to the sheriff’s Ramona station last week, expressing their support for local law enforcement, officers at the station were elated.

Lt. Rich Williams was amazed as he looked through the 140 letters that expressed gratitude for law enforcement’s service and sacrifices, and wished officers’ safe and fun holidays.

“Those letters were awesome,” Williams said at the sheriff’s Citizen Advisory Group meeting Nov. 19. “Some of those kids invited us to turkey dinner.”

The letter-writing campaign was the brainchild of three students in Ramona High’s Associated Student Body Leadership class, according to Mona Snodgrass, teacher and student government director. Those students, Jacob Powers, Brandon Hankins and Jillian Hermes, were among the ASB students who brought a banner stating “Ramona Students Support Law Enforcement” to the sheriff’s Ramona station on Nov. 17. Powers’ father works for the San Diego Police Department, Snodgrass said.

In a spirit of cooperation, students and officers from the sheriff’s department and California Highway Patrol worked together to hang the large banner on the station’s gate facing Montecito Road. The station is at the corner of Main Street and Montecito Road.

The 140 letters were only a portion of what the ASB students had gathered.

The goal, Snodgrass said, was 300 letters.

They exceeded their goal, collecting 418 letters from students at Ramona High, Olive Peirce Middle School and Barnett Elementary School.

The ASB students also delivered letters to the ASTREA helicopter crew of the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department and to the southern division of the San Diego Police Department.

With a lot of negative coverage about law enforcement today, Williams said the show of support is very much appreciated.

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