Kiest Park Community Group members served police officers at the Dallas Police southwest substation in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, TX on Aug. 10, 2016. Food was provided by Cane’s Chicken, Cretia’s Eatery and Emporium Pies. The "Help Feed SW DPD For a Day” event happened a month after a mass shooting in downtown Dallas. Three of the five slain officers were based in the southwest police substation on Illinois Ave. Credit: Danny Fulgencio

Photo by Danny Fulgencio

Kiest Park Community Group members served police officers at the Dallas Police southwest substation in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, TX on Aug. 10, 2016. Food was provided by Cane’s Chicken, Cretia’s Eatery and Emporium Pies. The "Help Feed SW DPD For a Day” event happened a month after a mass shooting in downtown Dallas. Three of the five slain officers were based in the southwest police substation on Illinois Ave. Credit: Danny Fulgencio

Photo by Danny Fulgencio

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Kiest Park area neighbors wanted to do something for the Dallas Police Department’s Southwest Division, which lost three officers in the July 7 shooting Downtown.

They started raising money about three weeks ago with plans to put on a buffet for the officers. They’d raised $400 when Raising Cane’s on South Hampton at Wheatland volunteered to provide the food.

Neighbors had raised about $400, says Judy Brooks of the Kiest Park Community Group Neighborhood Association. So she approached Cretia’s and Emporium Pies, with the idea to buy desserts. But then those establishments decided to donated sweets instead.

Those donations, plus neighbors’ homemade desserts, resulted in two huge spreads for officers, and volunteers served food at 11:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. With the donated money, neighbors bought a truckload of Gatorade for the division, which has about 300 officers, and the remainder will be donated to the Dallas Fallen Officer Foundation.

Here is Brooks thanking the officers before lunch Wednesday: