Newsletter
Retired Police Officer Council News
February 2012
Greetings from your Retired Police Officers Council Board members. We hope that you spent quality time with friends and loved ones during the past holiday season. We welcome 2012 with renewed expectations that our economy will improve and good health care will be enjoyed by all.
We continue to have our monthly informal buffet lunches on the second floor at Miccosukee Hotel and Casino, at 500 S.W. 177th Avenue, Miami, FL 33194. The 2012 lunch dates are at 11:30 A.M., on: Tuesday, January 17th, Wednesday, February 22nd, Thursday, March 15th, Thursday, April 19th, Monday, May 14th, Tuesday, June 12th, Wednesday, July 18th, Thursday, August 16th, Monday, September 10th, Tuesday, October 16th, and Thursday, November 1st, and none for December. Each attendee pays $11.00 per buffet lunch. All members and their guests are invited to attend. No reservations are necessary.
In keeping up with our social venue, please remember to make your reservations in a timely manner for our upcoming 2012 RPOC Reunion beginning Thursday, April 26th and ending after breakfast, Sunday morning, April 29th, at the beautiful Hilton Ocala. You can make your reservations now by calling 1-877-602-4023. Please mention that you are an RPOC member and be sure to ask for our special room rate. As always, the staff of the Hilton Ocala is standing by to help in any way possible.
Our membership continues to grow. A big “thank you” to Margarita Vasquez of the PBA for her continued help in making sure the new retirees receive our RPOC application forms. Our membership now exceeds 1,200. Welcome to our 83 new members who joined in 2011.
As of this writing, you should have received your annual dues notice and a reunion registration form. Please fill out the forms and return them, with applicable checks, to RPOC, P.O. Box 570790, Miami, FL 33257-0790 in the self-addressed envelope (please do not send to the office). For your convenience, you may include all amounts (dues, member assistance, reunion fees, etc.) in one check made payable to RPOC. Please be sure you have listed any and all changes, i.e. phone numbers, name changes, addresses, e-mail addresses, etc. on your annual renewal form.
Your Board of Directors is still in the process of reviewing new locations for our 2013 Annual Reunion. Thanks to those members who sent in suggestions of hotels for consideration. You have no idea how hard it is to find a first class hotel that can meet our specifications, some of which are competitive room rates, affordable food costs, rooms that are large enough to comfortably accommodate our functions and an easily accessible location for all members. Several hotels have submitted proposals that are currently under review and we should have a final selection very soon.
For those of you who were unable to attend the commemoration ceremony for the placement of our bench honoring Detectives Amanda Haworth and Roger Castillo, the inscription reads as follows “In memory of Miami-Dade Police Warrants Detectives Amanda Haworth and Roger Castillo who were murdered in the line of duty on January 20th, 2011. They will never be forgotten. Donated by the Retired Police Officers Council.” This bench has been placed in front of M.D.P.D. Headquarters in the butterfly garden at the main entrance. Chaplin Mary Walters did an outstanding job arranging for this bench and its inscription. I would like to thank Annette McCully for her assistance on this project.
We are sorry to report the passing of RPOC member Bob Worsham. Our thoughts and condolences go out to his family and friends.
Lloyd Hough
President
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Our email address is rpocpba@bellsouth.net or locally in Miami call (305) 594-2848, or toll-free call (866) 594-2848. Our mailing address is Retired Police Officers Council, Post Office Box 570790, Miami, FL 33257-0790.
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