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August 20, 2009

Donating to police Mounted Unit

The head of communications for the Baltimore Community Foundation has let me know that people can donate money to the city police Mounted Unit online. He also notes that a contact person I've included in numerous postings is on vacation, so calls to her might be piling up in her voicemail.

Here are some further instructions:

Thanks so much for including the info on how to give on your latest post about the Police Mounted Unit. We have had tons of calls this week from people who say they’ve spent way too much time calling around trying to find out where to send their contribution!

One correction, please. It is not necessary to contact Laurie Crosley – people can send a check as you’ve explained, or they can give online at www.bcf.org/police , which is the online giving page for the Baltimore Police Foundation Fund at BCF.

Poor Laurie is on vacation this week and I’m afraid she’s going to come back to the office and have dozens of phone messages about this!

I appreciate all the attention you’ve given to this story. The response has been tremendous.

Best regards,

Gigi Casey Wirtz
Director of Communications
Baltimore Community Foundation
2 East Read St., Baltimore, MD 21202

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Peter Hermann started covering news for The Baltimore Sun in 1990, first in Anne Arundel County and, starting in 1994, reporting on the Baltimore Police Department. In 2001, he was assigned to Jerusalem as the Baltimore Sun's Middle East correspondent. He returned in 2005 as an assistant city editor overseeing crime coverage. In 2008, Peter returned to the beat as a daily reporter and blogger. A recent BBC report featured him in a segment on the harsh realities of covering crime in Baltimore.

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