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Lodge
#1 Sioux Falls was chartered on September 12,1941 with 51 members. In the
1960's, the lodge purchased a one-room school house in East Sioux Falls to
use as a club house. In 1982 we erected the present building on the
school house site. We now have 375 members - policemen, deputies,
troopers, state agents, federal officers, and many retired officers.
President: Tom
Lien Sioux Falls, SD 57103, SFPD
V. President: Doug
Flora, Brandon, SD 57005, SFPD
Secretary:
Richard Dickey Sioux Falls, SD 57110 retired
Treasurer: Andrea
Kelly, Sioux Falls, SD, SFPD
Lodge Email: tlien@siouxfalls.org
and dickeysf@sio.midco.net
Lodge #2
Rapid City
was
chartered on January 12th, 1999 with 14 names on the application
for charter. 92 members were sent in with the First Membership
Report of which were employees of the Rapid City Police
Department. Since that time, we have grown to over 130 members
who are from county, state, and federal agencies. Many of the
members of the newly formed lodge were also members of the Rapid
City Peace Officer’s Association, which has been in the Rapid
City area for many years.
On 1/27/05 at a
general membership meeting, the membership of both organizations
voted on a motion to merge the Rapid City Peace Officer’s
Association and the Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 2. We are
pleased to announce the approval of this merger. The renamed
lodge is the Rapid City Peace Officer’s Association Fraternal
Order of Police, Lodge #2, South Dakota, or Rapid City POA FOP
Lodge #2, SD. This name change was then approved by the South
Dakota state lodge and then by the Grand Lodge.
The majority of
our members are officers with the Rapid City Police Department.
Our department is unionized through the FOP and that is lodge 2A.
Rapid City Police Department employees are represented in a
bargaining process for working conditions, contracts, legal
defense, and a grievance process. Members eligible to be with the
union are officers with the rank of Sergeant and below. All
members are eligible for legal defense coverage. We are currently
in contract negations with the city as our current contact expires
12/31/05.
The Rapid City
Police Department, Pennington County Sheriff’s Office, and the
Pennington
County
State’s Attorney are currently undergoing building expansion and
remodeling at the Public
Safety
Building at 300 Kansas City St. The Pennington County Jail, 603
2nd St., is also expanding next door. We are looking forward to
the completion of the multi-million dollar project.
Rapid City is the
largest city in western South Dakota and the second largest in the
state. We are on the eastern edge of the Black Hills
National Forest
and northwest of the Badlands
National Park.
We are 25 miles from Sturgis,
SD
which host the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in August. In
addition to the normal volume of summer tourist, several hundred
thousand visitors from across the nation and the world come to the
Black Hills area each year for the week of the rally. We welcome
you to come visit us as we know you will enjoy your stay in the
beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota.
We
continue to support our local charities with at least several
hundred dollars each. Those groups include: Boys Club, Girls
Club, Big Brothers, Big Sisters, CASA, Boy Scouts of America, and
various other groups that may approach us. This is very much
appreciated by the kids of our community and we get to have a very
positive influence on how these kids see law enforcement. We have
had a couple of tragedies that we have been able to help out with
also. Maria Allen who is the secretary for the law firm
representing our lodge lost her home to a fire in the Rapid Valley
area. We were able to give her some money to help her and her
kids (single mom) out with getting her back on track. We assisted
in helping the widow of school teacher. Andrew Crocker was a
schoolteacher who was killed in a hit and run accident by a drunk
driver while he was out for his morning run. Members of our
organization got together and helped her finish the house her
husband had been working on. We are really proud of our members
who pitched in to help this woman. These are just a couple of the
examples of what we have been able to accomplish.
Lastly, we try and
support our membership by giving them something back from the
lodge they so faithfully support. We send flowers to members who
have suffered loss or gained a new little life to their family.
We may give them a gift card to a restaurant for some deserving
member to go out with his/her significant other. We have hosted a
summer fishing tournament every year and a winter ice fishing
tournament. We have various barbecues which we contribute to for
our agencies. We continue to have a Christmas party which
normally has a couple of hundred people in attendance and we enjoy
listening to a comedian and dancing to music provided by a DJ. We
have hosted many Super Bowl parties in the past and will continue
to do so this year. We also have our clubhouse. The clubhouse is
a special place for our members to use at their discretion. It is
used for social events including weddings, graduations, retirement
parties, family reunions, baby showers, barbecues...etc. The
clubhouse is also used as a training facility for Law Enforcement
Agencies in our area. Agencies that have used the clubhouse are
the Rapid City Police Department, Pennington County Sheriff’s
Department, South Dakota Game, Fish, & Parks, South Dakota Highway
Patrol, and the Rapid City Fire Department. Police officers need
a place to kick back and relax. We have a wonderful facility and
try to make the most of it.
The clubhouse’s
windows were in need of repair and we were very fortunate to have
Dan Warren of Warren Window and Supply donate these windows to the
Lodge. Dan donated these windows in memory of Supervisory Deputy
United States Marshal Doug Ludovissie. Doug passed away in 2004
from a long battle with cancer. Doug served on the Board of
Directors of the Association and was in charge of the clubhouse
for over a dozen years. We have missed Doug.
In
May of 2005, our lodge was blessed with the opportunity to
accompany the Bechtold family to Washington D.C. for the Law
Enforcement Officers Memorial. Because of the gracious support
given by the state lodge, we were able to provide for the family
in a way that made the experience that much more meaningful. This
was truly an honor to represent the State of South Dakota as well
as Law Enforcement in general, during this time.
These are just a few
examples of what our lodge has participated in or accomplished in
2005. We look forward to another great year. Please send us any
information about events that you may be hosting in the upcoming
year and we will plan to do the same. Until next time, we wish
the best to all of our brothers and sisters in law enforcement.
God bless all of you in 2006!
President:
James Hansen Rapid City, SD
V. President: Kyle
Fees Rapid City, SD 57701,
Secretary: Spencer
O’Bryan Rapid City, SD 57701,
Treasurer: Wayne
Keefe Rapid City, SD 57701,
Sec. Email:
han_2284@yahoo.com &
spencer.obryan@rcgov.org
Fraternally Yours, Lodge 2
Lodge
#4 Aberdeen is made up of approximately 80 members from various agencies consisting
of the Aberdeen Police Department, SD Game Fish and Parks, Federal Game
and Fish, SD Highway Patrol, Brown County Sheriff's Office, FBI and the US
Marshall's Office. We hold our monthly meetings at our lodge located on
the south side of Aberdeen.
Lodge
#4 holds a fund raising concert once a year in Aberdeen. Proceeds from our
concert help fund lodge-sponsored events throughout the year such as:
Lodge
#4 is actively involved in community service in Brown County. This
involvement allows officers to interact with the youth, and all of Brown
County, in a positive setting.
President:
Brian Koens, SD 57445, Brown Co. S.O.
V. President: Arika
Dinkmann, Aberdeen, SD APD
Secretary: Brooke
Brown Aberdeen, SD,
Treasurer:
Nick Cochran, Aberdeen, SD, GFP
Lodge. Email:
Brook.Brown@state.sd.us and
brian.koens@brown.sd.us
For
more information please e-mail brian.koens@brown.sd.us
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