WEST COLUMBIA, SC (WACH) — The West Columbia Police Department has partnered with Walmart and Midlands schools to support families affected by the government shutdown.
Assistant Chief Matthew Deas emphasized the importance of alleviating children’s worries about food, saying,
Kids should not have to be worried as simple as what they’re going to eat. If we can take that worry off their plate and off the plate for their parents, and allow them just to be kids then that makes us really happy…