By Edgar Kelley, The Inter-Mountain
ELKINS — Randolph County Sheriff Rob Elbon is always looking for ways for members of the Sheriff’s Office to bond with area youth, and last year he and some of his fellow deputies came up with a plan they hoped would work.
The Sheriff’s Office took a chance on printing out a group of trading cards that featured 18 different deputies and the department’s K-9 officer, Twix. The plan was for deputies to hand out the cards while visiting schools or when they ran into children at public events.
The response to the cards was overwhelming and led to the Sheriff’s Office coming out with a 2024 edition of the cards, which was released just this week.
“The kids love them. Even after we gave them all out last year, they kept asking us if we had any more,” Elbon told The Inter-Mountain. “We would be out in public somewhere and they would come running up and ask you if you had any cards. We hated it that we didn’t have any more to give them when we ran out of the ones for 2023.”
Read more: https://www.theintermountain.com/news/local-news/2024/11/new-deputy-trading-cards-released/
