By Brett Milam
Editor
A Union Township woman brightened the days of those in blue with wooden badge ornaments and badge-shaped sugar cookies.
Cheryl Beaudion, who does custom crafts, CB Creations, as a side business run through her Facebook page, decided earlier this month to utilize her Glowforge 3D laser printer to cut out the wood in a show of support to the Union Township Police Department. The at-home 3D printer can do any pattern she wants, and for the department, she cut the wood into badges with each of the 63-member police force’s badge numbers and names on them. The badges also came with string to be made into an ornament.
In a letter to the department, she wrote, “Just a small token of our appreciation for all the hard work you put forth in protecting and keeping this area safe for all. Please enjoy the homemade cookies and handmade individual badge ornaments. You are appreciated more than you realize.”
It was a team effort, though. Her husband, George, cut the wood necessary for the ornaments and painted it (so she didn’t have to paint after the laser printing), and her son’s girlfriend, Sam Griffith, who runs Cake Envy in Amelia, a hobby-turned-job of making fun cakes and cookies, helped to make and donate the 63 sugar cookies, also shaped like badges.
Others who helped on the project included Becky Prince, who donated the money necessary to construct the ornaments, and her son, Cory Collins, and Leslie Reynolds, both of whom also helped to construct the ornaments. The further construction after laser printing the badges involves gluing all the pieces together. It’s more “man-hours” than anything, Beaudion told The Sun in a follow-up interview..
To do 63 of them, she said it took about a day to cut all the top and bottom pieces, and the little name and number plates, and another two days to put them all together, bag them, and put the cookies in.
On Dec. 6, Beaudion delivered the wooden badges and cookies to the department. Ken Mullis, a detective with the department, who Beaudion worked with on the roster of names, helped bring them into the facility due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Beaudion said they [the police] work really hard for us and they take their lives in their own hands every day when they leave their house and their families.
“It’s just a little thing I do on the side and I love giving back to the community,” she said. “There was a lot of love that went into the project for them and I know they certainly appreciated it.”
Ron Swearingen, Beaudion’s father who lives in West Union, said the whole group came together to do something nice for the local community in Union Township.
“Just want people to know that somebody appreciates their work,” he said.
Swearingen said doing that is who his daughter is, saying she likes to help out people. He said he was proud of her.
“We both just like to see right stuff done. Tired of all the negativity going around and apparently my daughter felt the same way,” he said.
To learn more about Cake Envy, visit their Facebook page at facebook.com/CakeEnvy4.
To learn more about Beaudion’s CB Creations, visit her Facebook page at facebook.com/Lularoe.CherylBeaudion.
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