GRAND FORKS, ND (KFGO) - Deputies with the Grand Forks County Sheriff''s Office will be wearing special badges throughout Oct.
Sheriff Bob Rost says the pink-colored badges are designed to highlight Breast Cancer Awareness Month. "We will be wearing pink badges in support of breast cancer awareness month", Rost told "It Takes 2" with Jack and Amy on KFGO.
Rost said employees of his department paid for the specially designed badges. "Each one of the guys in the department bought their own, so we did not, no taxpayer dollars are involved in this thing at all," the sheriff said.
Rost says he's aware of two county employees who have breast cancer and a former employee who is also fighting the disease.