Food baskets coming Thursday from Sheriff’s Benevolent Association

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Dallas County Sheriff’s Lieutenant Adam Infante bore gifts Tuesday to round out the baskets in the Dallas County Sheriff's Benevolent Association's annual Christmas Food Basket program. Baskets will be delivered Thursday.

With another successful Shop with a Cop season complete, the Christmas Food Basket program is next in line to deliver happiness to people across Dallas County. Baskets will be delivered Thursday.

From their staging grounds at the Dallas County Extension offices on the fairgrounds in Adel, volunteers from the sheriff’s office and various public safety agencies from cities around Dallas County will load their vehicles and fan out to area towns and farm houses, bringing meat and potatoes, bread and milk and eggs, blankets and toys “and various other foods and sundries” to county families, according to the Sheriff’s Benevolent Association.

Now in its 22nd season of holiday helpfulness, the sheriff’s office holiday benevolence dates unofficially to origins in 1990, with the delivery of small, private gifts, and the program has slowly grown since then. As few as eight or 10 baskets were delivered countywide in the early years, according to Perry Volunteer Fire Department Fire Chief Chris Hinds, a longtime Dallas County Deputy Sheriff.

“A few of us would fill our patrol cars with food,” Hinds said. The program became an officially organized event of the Sheriff’s Benevolent Association in 1995, and the Perry Volunteer Fire Department has participated since 2009, the year of Hinds’ retirement from the county force.

This year’s delivery team of Perry volunteers will deliver baskets to families in Perry, Bouton, Dawson and Minburn. Donations from volunteers and local business are the backbone of the Benevolent Food Basket program, with dozens of local companies generously contributing, according to the Sheriff’s Benevolent Association.

The Dallas County Sheriff’s Benevolent Association held its annual Shop with a Cop program Dec. 2-3 at the Jordan Creek Wal-Mart, with valuable assistance from a Wal-Mart Customer Service Manager appropriately named Mary.

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