There are many things I’m grateful for about living and working in Westfield. One of them is that our parish is across the street from the police station. Not because it affords us extra security but because it allows me to say that there is grace opposite law. It also means that I’m handy to vouch for a member of the parish who may have spent the night in a police cell and needs me to attest to their good character. Which I was called on to do earlier this summer.