Crime & Safety

To Ringo, With Love

A portrait of Ledyard's K-9 officer will be presented Friday to the Ledyard Police Dept. by the children of Ledyard, "in appreciation of the many demonstrations presented to area schools and organizations."

Marge Anderson, President of i5 Teaching Network, wanted to do something to say thanks.

"The Ledyard Police Department, and especially the K-9 Unit, has been very generous with their time and expertise, adding great value to the various forensic science lectures and programs for kids and adults that have been offered by i5 Teaching Network," she wrote in an email to Patch. "I wanted to do something special to thank them for their support of science education and for being great ambassadors for local police and role models for team work."

Never mind sending a card, or flowers, or baking a cake, though. Anderson had something really special in mind.

"I commissioned Serena Bates, sculptor and portrait artist in Westerly, to do a drawing of Ringo," Ledyard's K-9 officer. "I thought that this might be a special way to involve the local kids who have come to know and respect Officer Gagnon and Ringo as well as other officers and detectives at LPD."

The portrait will be presented to Ringo and his handler, Officer Dan Gagnon, at 4 p.m., Friday at the i5 Gallery in the Gales Ferry Community Center,
18 Hurlbutt Road (next to the Gales Ferry Library).

The portrait will hang in the i5 Gallery until Labor Day for public viewing and then given to the police department.


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