Retired sheriff’s employee gives thanks to friend for kidney

PHOENIX (AP) — The Pima County Sheriff’s Department is celebrating an employee who donated a kidney to a former coworker.
The Arizona Daily Star says Chad Avery, a civilian employee at the department in Tucson, volunteered to be tested to see if he was a match with his former boss and longtime friend, Jim Anderson, who is diabetic and needed a kidney.
A year later, surgeons in Phoenix performed the transplant. Both are doing well.
Anderson was Avery’s boss at the Pima County De