Sweeter side: Local kids spend the day making cookies with Chippewa Falls Police
A police officer wearing an apron and rolling dough is definitely not an intimidating sight.
And that is the main idea behind the Chippewa Falls Police Department’s Cookies with Cops program, held Saturday afternoon at the Trinity Methodist Church.
“We want to show kids we’re not that bad,” Chippewa Falls Police officer Deb Brettingen said. “We can have fun too.”
Cookies with Cops is a new project for the police department this year, spearheaded by Brettingen. She said police Chief Wendy Stelter wanted to have a day where police officers could interact with kids who may not have a positive image of law enforcement.
The idea for baking cookies came from Brettingen.
“I was driving around on Christmas and I thought about the cookies I used to make with my family and how much fun that was,” Brettingen said.
She was right. The kids, fitted with chef’s hats, name badges and gloves, wasted no time rolling out the dough and filling pans with cut-outs of badges, squad cars and stars. These unique cutters were ordered specially by the department, Brettingen said.
These kids were specially selected by the police department for the event, mainly through recommendations of the Chippewa County Family Support Center and the Chippewa Falls Marriage and Family Health Services.
Some kids were also selected through the elementary and middle schools, Brettingen added.
Skye Burlum and her son Eirik were among those who were invited to make cookies. She said she was contacted through River Source Family Center.
“The police called me and asked if it was OK to invite Eirik and I said definitely,” said Burlum, who stayed at the event to help her son make cookies.
A handful of police officers — in full uniform — as well as other department employees used their day off to make cookies with the kids and also handle the “grown up” tasks, such as mixing the dough and baking the cookies.
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