Heroes step up for local kids

Members of the Pine Bluffs Police Department, Laramie County Fire Districts #1 and #5 and the Laramie County Sheriff's Office stepped up to be heroes for underprivileged kids last Saturday. Through private donations and inter-department funds raised, local heroes were able to make Christmas a little better for 13 Pine Bluffs kids. Each child was given $100 to spend at Walmart in Cheyenne and afterward, there treated to lunch at Pizza Hut by LCFD1.

"We took 10 (kids) and we shopped for 13," said Deputy Char Madden. "We had one boy who couldn't make it, so we gave him a gift card so his parents...