Sheriff Pohlmann was a sponsor of the fund-raising boxing matches for Norm’s Gym in Arabi

As young fighters box in the ring behind them, Sheriff James Pohlmann is shown with Norman VanCourt, who runs the boxing program at Norm’s Gym on Community Street in Arabi. The sheriff was one of the sponsors of Saturday night’s “Hittin Hard in St. Bernard’’ boxing card which was a fund-raiser for the boxing program. The event, which drew a large crowd numbering in the hundreds, also raised money for the family of fire-fighter Tommy Ashby of St. Bernard Parish, who was once a boxer at Norm’s Gym and was killed recently in an auto accident in Long Beach, Miss.