WRRV's Shop with a Cop is Back & Here's How You Can Help

WRRV is teaming up with local law enforcement, local businesses, and you to help give kids in the community a very special Christmas. Here is how you can be a part of it and support a great cause.

DONATE NOW TO WRRV'S SHOP WITH A COP

It's hard to believe but it's already November and the holiday season will soon be upon us and so comes another year where we get ready to help out kids right here in the Hudson Valley get presents.

A week before Christmas we will pair up a local kid with a local police officer and let them shop together at the Poughkeepsie Galleria with a gift card that can be used at any store.

Chuck Merrihew

For the last four years, we've been collecting funds for a great cause. WRRV's Shop with a Cop is a great way to give back to kids in the Hudson Valley whose families may not have the financial means to have a good Christmas this year. This will be our fifth year for the event and we hope to make it bigger than ever.

We've partnered up with the Town of Poughkeepsie PBA along with Sherwood Tile and Granite and Profex Inc. in Newburgh to ensure that this year we help out more kids than before.

We'll be collecting money until mid-December and all proceeds will help fund Shop with a Cop for 2021 and future holiday seasons.

If you would like to donate monetarily, here's how:
1) CLICK HERE to make a donation to the WRRV Shop With A Cop. All donations are handled directly through the Town of Poughkeepsie PBA.
2) Mail a check to: WRRV Shop With A Cop, 2 Pendell Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601. Donations received after December 12, 2021, will be applied to the 2022 event.

Thank you so much for your support year after year in making this a huge holiday tradition for WRRV.

Chuck Merrihew

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