Lake County Deputy Sheriff's Association

11/13/2026

💙 Happy World Kindness Day!

Every November 13, people around the world make a point of being a little kinder. The day was introduced in 1998 by the World Kindness Movement, and it's the perfect excuse to say thank you to the people who show this association kindness all year long: our supporters.

Small kindnesses count more than people think. Researchers at the University of Chicago and UT Austin found that people consistently underestimate how good a small act of kindness makes someone else feel. Your support means more than you know.

Some of our most loyal supporters choose to give a little every month. If you'd like to share some kindness with this association, as a one-time gift or a monthly one, we'd be grateful for your support here: https://lakecountydsa.com/donate?utm_source=facebook_helpers&utm_medium=post&utm_term=com

11/11/2026

🇺🇸 15.7 million Americans have served in our armed forces, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Today is for every one of them.

They come from every generation. Nearly a third served during the Vietnam era. Almost as many served after September 11, 2001. And 1.7 million of them are women.

Veterans Day falls on November 11 every year, the anniversary of the 1918 armistice that ended the fighting in World War I. Unlike Memorial Day, it is mainly a day to thank the veterans who are still with us.

Members of this association who served know a sincere thank you goes a long way.

11/10/2026

251 years of Marines, and the birthday cake still gets cut the same way. 🎂

At Marine Corps birthday celebrations, the first slice traditionally goes to the guest of honor. The next goes to the oldest Marine present, who passes a piece to the youngest Marine in the room, handing experience down to the next generation.

It all goes back to one day: November 10, 1775, when the Continental Congress resolved to raise two battalions of Marines. The birthday ceremony was formalized across the Corps in the 1950s.

To the members of this association who wore the eagle, globe and anchor first, happy birthday.

10/31/2026

Before there were pumpkins, there were turnips. 🎃

In Ireland and Scotland, people carved scary faces into turnips and set them in windows to frighten off a wandering spirit called Stingy Jack. The Irish came to call him Jack of the Lantern, then simply Jack O'Lantern. When immigrants brought the tradition to America, they found pumpkins far easier to carve, and the rest is porch history.

The members of this association hope your night is full of candy.

10/29/2026

10/28/2026

📬 Our Fundraising Letter Is Here, Just in Time for National First Responders Day!

October 28 is National First Responders Day, recognized by the U.S. Senate since 2017. It's a day to thank everyone who runs toward the call, paid or volunteer, around the clock, including the members of this association.

This week our official fundraising letters are landing in mailboxes across our community, and yours may already be waiting. Every gift, big or small, means a great deal to us.

If you'd like to celebrate the day with us, there's no need to wait for the mail. Whenever you're ready, our giving page is here: https://lakecountydsa.com/donate?utm_source=facebook_helpers&utm_medium=post&utm_term=com 💙

10/17/2026

Today is National Move Over Day. Flashing lights on the shoulder mean one thing: move over.

If you can safely change lanes away from a stopped emergency vehicle, tow truck or road crew, do it. If you cannot, slow down, well below the posted limit, until you are past. That is the law in all 50 states.

It is also a law a lot of drivers do not fully know. In the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety's 2025 survey, fewer than half of drivers who knew the law applied realized it also means slowing down. More than two thirds thought drivers who ignore it are unlikely to be caught.

The cost of that gap is measured in people. The Emergency Responder Safety Institute counted 36 roadside responders struck and killed in 2025, and at least 26 more so far in 2026.

Saturday, October 17 is National Move Over Day. Our members will be on the shoulder that day, same as every day.

10/07/2026

National Coffee with a Cop Day started with a simple problem. Most people only ever met the police on the worst day of their week.

In 2011, Chief Keith Kauffman and John Dixon of the Hawthorne Police Department in California tried something different. They set up at a local coffee shop, with no agenda and no speeches, and let residents walk up and ask whatever they wanted. By 2016 the idea had spread to all 50 states.

It is now held on the first Wednesday of October every year, which this year is October 7.

The format has not changed, because it does not need to. A table, a cup of coffee, and time to talk about the things that never come up during a call. Parking. School traffic. Why the sirens were out on Tuesday night.

Members of this association know the most useful conversations rarely happen in an emergency.

09/27/2026

In 1917, an Army captain named Robert Queisser designed a small flag for a window.

He had two sons serving overseas. The flag he patented carried a blue star for each family member in service, and families across the country began hanging them where neighbors could see. It was a quiet way of saying that someone from this house is out there.

If that person did not come home, the family sewed a gold star over the blue one.

That is where the term comes from. Not a medal. Not a designation handed down by an institution. A mother with a needle, covering a blue star, in a window on an ordinary street. In 1918 the practice was formalized when the Women's Committee of the Council of National Defense asked President Wilson to approve a gold star for mothers who had lost a child in the war, and he did.

Gold Star Mother's and Family's Day is observed on the last Sunday in September, this year on the 27th.

Members of this association know Gold Star families in the communities we serve. Most of them will not say so out loud.

If you know one, they do not need a speech. They need to know their person is still remembered by name. Share this post in their honor.

09/18/2026

Last year, 231 missing Americans came home.

That is the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency's fiscal year 2025 count. 165 from World War II, 58 from Korea, 8 from Vietnam. It was a record, and the first time since 2019 the agency exceeded the 200 identifications Congress asks of it.

It also barely moved the number. More than 80,000 Americans are still unaccounted for from past conflicts. Roughly 38,000 of them are assessed as recoverable. Most of the rest were lost at sea.

Those two facts sit together uncomfortably, and they should. The work is painstaking, it is slow, and it is still producing results eighty years after the fact. Somewhere last year, 231 families got a phone call they had stopped expecting.

Today is National POW/MIA Recognition Day, observed every year on the third Friday in September by presidential proclamation.

The flag says You Are Not Forgotten. The 231 is the proof.

Share this post in their honor.