Paws-itivity

GCSO welcomes Nitro to the office

EPHRATA – Nitro, a 6-year-old German Shepherd, is putting his paws to work by being a peer support dog for the Grant County Sheriff’s Office. “We started looking into what are regulations, what does it take for a peer support dog and he either met or exceeded what was required of a medical facility,” said Josh Sainsbury, Chief Deputy of Emergency Operations at the Sheriff’s Office. “And we are not as strict because it is not a medical facility,” Sainsbury explained that he attended a conference at the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs last year that talked about the need for law enforcement to have more support within their departments due to the rising number of suicides in the profession...