The Greater Jacksonville Optimist Club, Inc.

Scenes from previous Shop-With-A-Cop programs

(l to r back row) Carol Dunstan, Ann Lane, Sue Gilmore, Mike Borowtiz, Barbara Crain and International Vice-President,Dennis Lane.

Optimist Sue Gilmore, Santa and Club President Carol Dunstan

The Shop With a Cop Project is scheduled for Saturday, December 22, 2007, at the new Wal Mart Super Center on York Road in Cockeysville. 

Optimists will meet at 8:00 AM to prepare for the arrival of the Police Officers and children.  They will arrive in Baltimore County Police vehicles, one child per Police Officer, around 8:30 AM.Members of the Cockeysville, Greater Jacksonville, Hereford, and Timonium Optimist Clubs will greet the officers and children as they arrive at Wal Mart. The officers will assist the children with their shopping and the Optimists will bag their purchases as they checkout at registers assigned to the Shop With a Cop shoppers. Following shopping the children and Police Officers will go to the Outback Steakhouse in Hunt Valley Towne Center where they will be served breakfast by Outback employees who have volunteered to come in early to participate in the project.  

Greater Jacksonville Optimist members should wear their purple Optimist shirts for this activity.  We need a list of members who would like to participate.  Please contact Barbara Crain at 410-785-0410 or bcrain@jhmi.edu. to add your name to the list of volunteers

Shop-With-A-Cop is a local program that makes a Christmas wish come true for some kids.  Optimist Clubs raise funds so that the kids can go on a $100 shopping adventure, a couple of weeks before Christmas.

Our goal is to have 100 children participate. The children, who were selected by the Baltimore County Police Department through the PAL centers throughout Baltimore County, each will be able to spend $100. The number of children we can serve depends on the amount of funds which are raised by the participating Optimist Clubs through fundraising project and solicitation of donations.  

For 2006-2007, The Greater Jacksonville Optimist Club donated $1,000.00 to the Shop-With-A-Cop program!

If you have any questions about this program, please contact Barbara Crain at (410-785-0410 or bcrain@jhmi.edu.

Maybe you could help out this year!

Scenes from previous Shop-With-A-Cop programs

These are the 100 police vehicles that, along with 100 police offices, escorted the kids to Wal Mart.

Hereford Optimists also helped out.

Santa's Helpers in front of Wal Mart