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MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - While the vacation play is usually filled with cheer, the fiscal load of gifts and Christmas meals tin measurement heavy connected some.
For the tenth twelvemonth successful a row, the Madera County Sheriff's Office is stepping up to assistance those who whitethorn beryllium struggling by surprising folks with a small gift.
On Friday, alternatively of handing retired citations during regular postulation stops, deputies amazed drivers with a $100 bill.
This contented began successful 2019, acknowledgment to the concern betwixt the Madera County Sheriff’s Office and Agriland.
"They wanted to springiness america an accidental to spell retired and link with the assemblage connected a antithetic level, to humanize our deputies and to amusement them we're not similar the remainder of instrumentality enforcement crossed the country, oregon astatine slightest we're not however instrumentality enforcement is being portrayed astatine that time," said Madera Sheriff Tyson Pogue.
Each year, the deputies interaction the lives of truthful galore assemblage members, including Zulema Rodriguez.
"I spot it successful the quality and connected TV each the clip but I didn't deliberation it would hap to me," Rodriguez said. "Muchas gracias, muchas garcias."
Another driver, Mireya Espinosa, thought she was getting a ticket.
After speaking with her, Madera Deputy Michael Murphy realized she would beryllium a bully recipient.
Espinosa is simply a parent of 3 and she said that she and her hubby person been facing fiscal difficulties. On apical of that, she precocious graduated from nursing school.
"We person a batch of debt, it comes with it, you know," Espinosa said.
Deputy Murphy tin relate, arsenic his woman is besides a nurse.
Having participated successful Operation: Random Acts of Kindness for a fewer years, helium said that portion helium knows he’s making an interaction connected the community, but it besides touches him.
"The emotion that they get erstwhile they unfastened up the paper and inquire them to work it, it chokes maine up inside, I consciousness it, I consciousness what they feel, and past I enactment myself, if I was successful their shoes, however large of an interaction would that beryllium for maine oregon for that day?"
In total, $6,000 was talented passim the county.
