Collection wins boy trip to first baseball game
Nine-year-old Orion Lohr did what no other kid in Midland County did this summer: He collected all 35 Midland Police trading cards.
Officers got the cards over the summer after a donation from the Exchange Club and announced a contest to collect them all, with the winner to be awarded tickets to a Great Lakes Loons baseball game.
With a name like Orion, it isn't a surprise that he was able to hunt down all 35 cards.
Greek Mythology humor...Does it get any better on this blog?
The way he found out that he won was kind of odd.
The fourth grader really didn't know what to do when community relations Officer Matthew Berchert and Lou E. Loon popped in at Eastlawn Elementary on Monday to say hello.
"I brought someone who wants to say 'Hi' to you," Berchert told the confused-looking little boy. Lou E. -- pretty energetic for a cold, rainy day -- ran up to Orion, one hand in the air awaiting a high five. The waterfowl wasted no time diving into the plastic bag that held the collection and fanning out the cards before writing Orion a note: "You should ask to sit in the dugout! Tell 'em Lou E. sent you!!"
The pair then went off to cruise the school at recess and lunch time, making Orion the most popular kid of the day.
Of his collection, Orion's got his favorites, including Officer Jai Mahabir sitting on the back of an alligator and holding him by the mouth, and Officer Greg Tait's because his Lou E. Loon is in the photo.
"He really liked the SWAT one," Laya said. "He kept asking 'What does SWAT mean?'"
Special Weapons And Tactics! Does no one remember the Robert Urich series?!?!?!? One of my classmates at St. Thomas Aquinas had a S.W.A.T lunchbox. It was really cool.
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