Now this is a great story to take us into the New Year! Chester County South Carolina Sheriff, Alex Underwood, has a program where he offers to take kids hunting/fishing each year, right here in South Carolina. After hearing about this offer, 9 year old Alex Collins wrote a letter asking if he could go hunting. Unfortunately, Alex Collins lives in Chester County, PENNSYLVANIA! The 9 year old explained that he does not have anyone to teach him and that his mother is very ill. After Alex and his mom contacted the wrong Sheriff in Pennsylvania, Carolyn Welsh, she had no idea what they were talking about. But with her research and determination to help, she reached out to the South Carolina Sheriff and they agreed to get 9 year old Alex down to South Carolina so that he could go hunting!

The two Sheriffs and their deputies all chipped in for Alex’s transportation and to purchase his hunting and fishing gear. Sheriff Underwood took Alex to his favorite but very secret hunting location, somewhere along 500 acres of Chester and Fairfield county.