As many as 5,000 law enforcement officers are expected Saturday for the funeral and motorcade for fallen Elyria police officer James Kerstetter.

A group of Kerstetter’s friends and community members who have organized to help the Kerstetter family would like to give each of those law enforcement officers a thank you card.

The community is invited to make or purchase thank you cards and leave their own personal messages in them. Cards can be dropped off in The Chronicle lobby, 225 East Ave., Elyria, or the Elyria Schools administration building, 42101 Griswold Road, Elyria, until 3 p.m. Friday.

According to The Chronicle’s Katie Hildebrand, a personal friend of the Kerstetter family who helped come up with the idea, “It’s too late to thank Jim, but at least we can thank the rest of them.”

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