“Boo for our Blue” to raise money for Helena officer injured in wreck – Shelby County Reporter

By NATHAN HOWELL | Particular to the Reporter

HELENA — Neighbors within the Sugar Creek Subdivision just lately got here collectively to create “Boo for our Blue,” a Halloween Trick-or-Deal with fundraiser that may assist Helena officer David Rollan, who was just lately hospitalized.

Chase Rogers, Sugar Creek resident and organizer, mentioned that neighborhood had been doing group occasions that everybody may safely take part in and so they figured they might do this on Halloween and assist assist one in every of their very own by means of the fundraiser.

“It’s a accountability of everyone in the neighborhood to assist out a neighbor going by means of one thing like that. We will’t have true group if we all know that a few of our neighbors are hurting,” Rogers mentioned. “Officer Rollan has meant a lot to the group and the youngsters, and with one occasion that was gone. There’s a piece of us lacking and we need to be good neighbors and assist.”

The occasion will begin round 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 31 and performance as common trick-or-treating however with a form of social-distanced block social gathering really feel to it. Everyone seems to be invited to return and get some sweet, scorching chocolate and fellowship with others.

Additionally they plan to have a spooky Halloween film for teenagers to take pleasure in.

Neighbors will likely be accumulating money donations from those that come to trick-or-treat, and Rogers mentioned additionally they plan to have Venmo data accessible for many who want to make digital donations.

Rogers mentioned that this occasion was initially simply going to be a approach to save Halloween from the pandemic, however once they realized somebody of their group was harm, they knew they might flip it into one thing else.

“We saved considering we needed to try to do one thing for Halloween,” Rogers mentioned. “It hit us when our neighbor officer Rollan went by means of his accident, and we needed to determine a method to assist him out.”