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Kids fill Christmas lists with shopping help from Gainesville cops
About 25 youngsters get $200 to spend at Gainesville Wal-Mart
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Brian Altis, 10, pushes the bike he picked out while shopping with officers Chris Letson and Dusty Adams during Shop with a Cop at Wal-Mart Supercenter in Gainesville on Friday. The bicycle was the item that Brian was looking forward to getting the most during the event. - photo by Erin O. Smith
Amid the buzzing crowd of Christmas shoppers, 9-year-old Yalanni Gomez led Gainesville Police Department Officer Larry Sanford to the large stand of Barbies. The trip around the Gainesville Wal-Mart was calculated, her grandmother Wendy Singleton said. “She had it planned: five toys and the rest clothes,” Singleton said.