Hoops for Hope

Tracey Wolfe/Grainger Today

The Grainger County Sheriff’s Department and Doyle’s Auto Parts faced off in a basketball showdown Saturday, January 14, raising $6,640 for the Shop With a Cop Program. The event was sponsored by Doyle’s Auto Parts, Jets Pizza (Morristown), Modern Woodmen, Grainger Farmers Co-op, Down Home Restaurant, Clinch Mtn. Bakery & Restaurant, Federated Auto Parts, Parker Bail Bonds and Grainger County Farm Bureau.  

A benefit basketball game featuring the Grainger County Sheriff’s Department against Doyle’s Auto Parts that took place Saturday, January 14 raised $6,640 for the Shop With a Cop program. The game raised $4,135 with an anonymous individual donation of $1,505 given just prior to the game. Modern Woodmen has offered a matching funds donation up to $1,000.