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Although my chosen profession was in public safety, I still found occasions when I could channel my artistic creativity. For
example, in the mid ‘90’s I applied for a special state traffic safety grant; my idea was to make 9 custom-designed street signs
encouraging folks to wear their seat belts. The $500 grant was awarded, the special signs were made, and public works put them
on posts in 9 strategic locations where I directed them to. Twenty-five years later, five of the signs were still up and a couple had
even had their posts upgraded from wood to metal; they look like they’re going to be up for quite a while longer. I’d say the state
got their money’s worth from that expenditure.

Over the years I also designed three different challenge coins for the PD; the first one was in 2014. They were minted in batches
of 200 or 300 and I sold them to my coworkers at cost. Two versions were metal and one was porcelain, like a poker chip:

Here’s a multi-agency logo I designed; it wound up on t-shirts and mousepads: