Students from Sacred Hearts School traveled to Yarmouthport to deliver a donation for the Sgt. Sean M. Gannon Police Training Center. (Courtesy photograph/Yarmouth Police Department)
Students from Bradford’s Sacred Hearts School headed to Yarmouth late last week to hand over a $400 donation to help fund the Sgt. Sean M. Gannon Police Training Center in memory of the Yarmouth Police Department K-9 officer killed in the line of duty last April.
Dropping off their donation during a visit to Camp Wingate Kirkland in Yarmouthport, students impressed Gannon’s police department colleagues by explaining that they each saved up their own money to make the donation. The Yarmouth Police Department told WHAV that all donations came specifically from the children, not parents.
“Whenever Sacred Hearts visits a community, they give back,” the department said in a social media post touting the school’s Sept. 27 visit. “What a beautiful gift and lesson for us all.”
The new $1.2 million training facility that bears Gannon’s name is expected to include an obstacle course for K-9 and police training, an enclosed training gun range and an interactive training room, which is already under construction in the basement of the town’s police station. Private donations and contributions to the Yarmouth Police Foundation, established in 2013, are being earmarked directly for the new construction.