Police officers from around the county made a special delivery to Rady Children’s hospital Tuesday – 50,000 teddy bears.
For the 20th year in a row, officers turned on their sirens and made the delivery to sick children waiting patiently outside the hospital.
“It means it’s going to be a Merry Christmas,” said eight-year-old Ryan, a patient at the hospital. Ryan has been there for over two weeks, while recovering from surgery. He called his bear, “pretty cool.”
The drive was started 20 years ago, when Coronado police officer Brian Hardy brought 12 new teddy bears to children spending the Christmas holiday in the hospital.
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