For the past three years, the Green County Law Enforcement Administrators Association has sponsored a program in Green County providing back packs and school supplies to elementary students attending our area schools. This year, about 60 kids have been provided back packs, filled with supplies, through the efforts of our local police chiefs, the Green County sheriff and Green County Human Services.

The association would like to express its thanks and appreciation to the great folks at the Monroe Walmart, who put together the back packs and filled them with supplies proper for the school and grade. They also considered the back pack style geared to the student and school that the student is attending. They did a great job, and we truly are thankful to all Walmart associates.

Our intent, as administrators, is to provide more to the community and to help others, up and beyond what is normally expected of law enforcement agencies. We live in a great community, and we want to make it even better. Our programs to help the community would not be possible without the contributions and support from our citizens and businesses, and we would like to thank all of you for making our School Back Pack and "Shop with a Cop" programs the success they have been in the past, and will continue to be in the future.

- Bob Levitt, Albany police chief, and Steve Allbaugh, New Glarus police chief, are co-chairs of the Green County Back Pack Program.