Baldwin County deputies get anonymous $200 gift

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — This is an individual shelling out it ahead to their local community. Recently, an nameless donor gave $200 to all 48 deputies at the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office environment, and none of them were being anticipating it. It all added up to just under $10,000.

We went to see their reactions and who helped the thriller man have out his strategy.

“When you wake up in the morning, you know you’re appreciated and you make a variation,” Ernesto Lopez claims.

Lopez has been a deputy at the Baldwin County Sheriff’s office for 10 decades and he thinks it’s the very best career out there. 

“There is often ups and downs, but at the close of the working day, you experience that you make a change,” he says. 

Ernesto had taken some time off, so when he arrived back again at the office environment, he was presented an envelope.

“I considered it was some thing little. Ordinarily, we get Chick-fil-A gift playing cards, you know– just a little something tiny — but when I saw it, I was surprised. I was not anticipating a thing like that,” he says. 

Lopez suggests that the revenue goes a lengthy way. He says it’ll go towards paying the charges, groceries, and gasoline. 

Deputy Reid White has been with the office for 8 several years. He is under no circumstances gained nearly anything like it in advance of. 

“When somebody offers you any form of recognition or a gift, or states ‘Thank you,’ or anything like that, to acquire an quantity of income as substantial as this, it was just truly neat,” he says. “Everybody listed here was just appreciative of that reward,” Lopez claims. 

Tori Kala, assistant vice president of Century Bank and Rely on in Milledgeville helped the nameless gentleman have out his program. 

“I fastened just about every envelope up, place a sweet tiny declaring in it that he preferred it to say, create their names on it, and supply it to the sheriff’s section,” she states. 

Kala says this prepare has been in the functions for the earlier 4 months. She states the donor is a man with a coronary heart of gold who has his intellect set on giving back again.

“He reported, ‘You know what? Legislation enforcement wants it for what they do. They defend us.’ He preferred to thank them for their support and guarding us,” Kala suggests. 

Sheriff Invoice Massee claims he knows who the donor is, but his lips are sealed. Massee says the full place of work appreciates the donation and thanks the particular person who gave it to them.

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