FOP elects new officers

Cherokee County Lodge No. 20, Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) has elected new officers. They are Pete McBride, president; Cherokee County Sheriff's Deputy Danny Tippett, vice-president; Blacksburg Police Officer Johnathan Gash, second vice-president; S.C. Highway Patrolman Jeff Martin, treasurer-secretary; Blacksburg Police Officer Andy Walker, chaplain; and Dennis Boan, retired officer and currently a bailiff for the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office, Sergeant-at Arms.

Among its many projects, FOP provides food, clothes and toys with its annual "Christmas With a Cop" fundraiser.