Fundraisers for Bakersfield dispatchers bring candygrams for sweethearts and veterans
0A card, a candy bar and a special note is all it takes to make someone special smile for Valentine’s Day, and this year Bakersfield Police Department’s Communications Department hand delivered their homemade candygrams to help raise funds for National Dispatchers Week, held the second week in April. “We do a few different fundraisers throughout the year so we can raise money to celebrate all of our dispatchers,” said Rachelle Beeson, Communications Supervisor for Bakersfield Police Department. “For Valentine’s Day we make these candygrams, we do them again for Veteran’s Day, we have raffles and this year we are going to…
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