(Atlantic, Iowa) – Atlantic Police Chief Devin Hogue reports the A-PD’s Family Dreams Christmas was held Saturday, Dec. 16th. The Chief says “This year’s program served eight full families of shopping at local businesses around town as well as four additional families with a visit through our toy room. Each family also received a box with all items needed to cook a delicious Christmas meal. This program was able to assist 37 children and 17 adults from 12 families. We were also assisted by the Atlantic Girls Basketball throughout the day.”

In addition, local authorities conducted the “Shop with a Cop” program on Sunday the 17th. Chief Hogue said “We had 27 individuals on hand to assist with shopping. They represented the APD, APD Reserves, Cass County Sheriff’s Office, Iowa State Patrol, Iowa DNR, as well as a couple of retired officers. We also had members of officers families join in to help. In total we took 35 children shopping during this program.

Together, these two programs assisted 72 children and 17 adults from 24 different Cass County families in having a much more joyful holiday this year. Neither of these programs would be possible without the generosity of our community. Thank you to everyone who donated and supported these two programs in 2023!!” (Photos provided courtesy of Chief Devin Hogue)