President's Message

I wish to take this opportunity to thank Commissioner James H. Lawrence (NCPD) for honoring us as our guest speaker at our Sept. meeting. It was great to see him acknowledge the many members that he worked with while with the NYPD. The Commissioner also assisted us with the presentations of our P.O. of the Month awards, for this we sincerely say "Thank You".

As mentioned in the last edition of the Call Box, we will implementing some changes in our scholarship program, one of the changes will find us presenting our awards at the June general meeting from now on. The award winners in June 2006 will be chosen from the 2005 & 2006 eligibles. Full details with applications will follow in the first Call Box of 2006.

As promised the application for our 2005 Children's Holiday Party is on page # 11 of this paper. Sean and Jennifer are hard at work, again putting together another fun filled party for our member's children and/or grand children.

Just a note; The Castle Harbor in the Bronx, home of many retirement parties and great roast pork is out of business. The building is now the site of The Odd Fellow's Home.

Don't forget, there is still time to get tickets for our dinner/dance scheduled for Saturday, October 29, please give us a call @ (516) 799-3944, using the mail would be cutting it close.

The upcoming October 27th meeting will be the start of our annual Christmas toy drive for under-privileged children. Please bring a toy and help us get off to a great start.

Don't forget, Tuesday, November 8th is Election Day. Get out and vote, there are people fighting overseas to protect our right to vote !