A group of people- really a whole nieghhborhood- let the Williamson County Sheriffs Department know on Tuesday just how much they are appreciated.
At about 3 p.m. parents, their children and anyone and everyone else from the Canterbury subdivision in Thompson’s Station came up to the Williamson County Detention Center to deliver a donation, lunch and appreciation.
The genesis for the act of kindness and civil appreciation came about because one citizen, Katie Grey, realized she wanted to show her appreciation, and her sentiment spread.
“So I am from Dallas, and I was there until last week, at my moms and it was just a couple miles from where the shooting took place and I saw just how awful it was that people were targeting police officers, so when I got back home I posted on our neighborhood Facebook page, saying,”Hey let’s get together and do something to let them know how much we appreciate what they do,'” said Katie Grey, a resident of the Canterbury subdivision in Thompson’s Station.
“I said, let’s make cards, because have tons of kids in our neighborhood, and we can pay it forward and teach the kids kindness and respect for our officers. So that is how it started, and here it is just eight days later and we have more than $600 in donations for them, and we sent them Chic Filet trays for each shift today, and custom cookies that we made. And then the kids came up and said thank you.”
Grey and her neighors made a banner, and this past weekend they took it out to the pool and had as many kids sign it as were splashing in the pool. The purpose of the event Tuesday afternoon was to present the Sheriff’s Department deputies with the banner.
The Sheriff’s, duly appreciative of the thanks, hung the banner up in the training room at the Detention Facility at 408 Court
“We have had some bad situations in our neighborhood, people just going through breaking into cars and just taking whatever, breaking windows, these officers here they just- they caught them- and we were so happy,” said one resident. ” I just can’t say enough for how much it meant to us to know they are out there for us.”
She asked if her name could not appear in this story, because as she said, “This is about saying thank you to the officers, and I don’t want any credit for that. It all goes to them, and to Katie Grey for organizing this. Just, thank you, Williamson County law enforcement.”
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