“We be walkin’!” is the slogan of Dee Patterson — known as Deputy Dee in the foothills — and Wendy Fehringer as they prepare to walk 25 miles in two days in February to support the C.O.P.S. Foundation.
C.O.P.S. stands for Concerns of Police Survivors, and the organization provides support for families, friends and colleagues who have lost an officer in the line of duty.
Patterson and Fehringer will be walking in COPSWalk Southwest Feb. 24-26, deciding this year to walk in honor of Dillon Vakoff, a 27-year-old Arvada police officer who was shot and killed responding to a disturbance on Sept. 11, 2022. Vakoff’s motto was “That others may live,” and Patterson said that stuck with her.
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