The event brought out Atlantic City Mayor Donald Guardian to help distribute the Thanksgiving dinners.
“ You know if the local police department needs help that the residents must really need help,” he added.“ Working alongside brothers and sisters to unite as one and help so many people shows the strength in our numbers.”
Colligan noted that the turkey giveaway helped the PBA’ s grand plan of enabling the public to see officers in a different light – different than the shroud of the dark side a certain outgoing administration in Trenton has cast over them. Auble asserted that the event helped the community relations that Local 24 has worked to build the past couple of years. But Kovar pinpointed the outstanding residual of the event.“ It was cold that day and the wind was whipping,” he ex-
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