EASLEY, SC (WSPA) – Easley Police Department School Resource Officer Ron Winegard caught our attention with his work at Lakes & Bridges Charter School.
It wasn’t for what he does on his feet, but what a photo posted on social media showed us. It was Winegard tying the shoes for a young student.
“(A teacher) brought one of the kids and said he didn’t want to tie a shoe,” Officer Winegard told us. “I said, ‘you know how to tie your shoe?’ He said, ‘no.’ So, I said ‘here, let me help you.’”
Lakes & Bridges Charter School Principal Heidi Bishop remembers. “When I saw that moment, I took that picture, just because it really touched me as a principal to see somebody doing that for one of our kids.”…