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Volunteers Melissa Linday Cross-Hall, left, and Gay Byers organize gifts at the Sweet Home Police Department Thursday, Dec. 17, for distribution to families, below. Community Services Officer Sean Morgan said that 61 packages were distributed and that donations from individuals during the department's Dec. 12 Shop With a Cop program enabled organizers to buy more. Morgan said people were "dropping $100 bills" and that one couple donated $500 for the Sharing Tree program. "People are very generous this year," Byers said. "Everybody stepped up."