The Public Defender’s Office presented a check for $910 to the Morocco Shrine Temple to help transport underage burn victims to care facilities. Staffers at the office collect the money every year instead of buying a Christmas present for Public Defender Lou Frost
“What we do for children who are less fortunate is amazing,” said Frost, who is a Shriner. “One hundred and fifty-four million a day is spent on the care of burn victims, children with spinal injuries and research at no cost to the patient or their family.”
Other humanitarian efforts by the staff include cooking and serving food at the I.M. Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless during the holidays and feeding an impoverished family Thanksgiving dinner and giving them Christmas toys. In a competition between the public defender and the state attorney’s office, $6,167 was raised by the Public Defender’s Office for the United Way. The State Attorney’s Office won the competition this year by a few dollars a person. Additionally, the public defender’s staff raised $1,500 for the World Trade Center Fund.