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Police plan benefit lunch Friday to help officer pay medical bills.

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| September 10, 2006 | This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Steve Lyttle

Sep. 10--A group of Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers has a recipe to help a friend with her mounting medical bills -- hamburgers, hot dogs and soft drinks. They'll be serving up that lunch Friday at the Law Enforcement Center in uptown Charlotte to raise money for cancer-stricken Janice Ballard, a police officer for 27 years. The cost is a donation, organizers say. Janice is having a really tough time with this, and we're trying to do what we can to help," said Detective Kimberly Pyle, who works in the department's Armed Robbery Unit and is a friend of Ballard's. "Her medical bills are unbelievable." Ballard was diagnosed with breast…

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