N E W S L E T T E R JANUARY 2013

Inside This IssueChaplain’s Page ...............6DeKalb Co/Clayton Co Info ...5Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. ........9FOP Calendar of Events ....10FOP Lodge #64 Exec. Board..7FOP National Info .............2Ful Co Payroll Deductions ....9SAT/ACT Testing Info .........8Secretary Notes ...............3Sgt-at-Arms Message .........3Sick and Shut-ins ..............5Sympathy Notices .............2Training Information ..........4Updates from National ........2

Fulton County FOP Lodge #64 -- 29 Years of Service

“Remembering Our Past, Claiming Our Present,Preparing For Our Future”

I hope that everyone had a Merry Christmas and I wish each of you a HappyNew Year!!!! The Executive Board has been busy setting goals for our Lodgefor 2013. We are soliciting your input and involvement. We are looking for a fewgood men and women who would like to donate their time to help our Lodge bethe best that it can be.

Our Lodge stepped forward to ensure that our retired officers could maintain their certification by offeringPOST accredited classes on our meeting nights. Both retired officers and active officers can receive credit.We also offer our members a good free meal after our meetings.However, we do not want these perks tobe the only reasons for your attending our meetings. We want you to become involved in our Lodge’sactivities.

In order to increase our Lodge’s community involvement, we need more brothers and sisters to get in-volved. “Everybody doing a little beats a few doing it all.” Every effort that we have does not justhappen. Each effort is a result of a lot of hard work. Let’s take our Back-to-School bookbag event. forexample. Our Lodge gave away bookbags to needy childrenthroughout the County. It took five Lodge members several hourto prepare and pack the bookbags with school supplies. Justthink, if there had been twenty-five members to do the job, thetask could have been done in about twenty minutes.

For our efforts, all that we request is your TIME. “Time is yourmost precious gift because you only have a set amount of it. Youcan make more money, but you can't make more time. When yougive someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your lifethat you'll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why thegreatest gift you can give someone is your time...Words alone areworthless ...our love should not be just words and talk; it must betrue love, which shows itself in action. The best way to spell loveis T-I-M-E!’” -- Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: Whaton Earth am I Here for?

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Our Heartfelt Sympathy goes out to:~Bro. Robert McMichael during the passing of his mother, Mrs. AliceA. McMichael.

Please keep his family in your thoughts and prayers.

National FOP President Chuck Canterbury's Response toPresident Obama's Remarks on the National Public Safety Crisis"President Obama today began a necessary national debate on firearms violence, its causes,and how best to deal with it. We particularly welcome his support for an expansion of back-ground checks before allowing the acquisition of firearms, beefing up ATF, and providingdesperately needed funding for additional state and local cops on the street.

"We intend to be very active participants in the process going forward, and assisting in the crafting of solid improvementsin public safety policy."

I. Social Security Issues A. Support H.R. 1332/S. 2010, the "Social Security

Fairness Act"The FOP strongly supports H.R. 1332/S. 2010,which will restore full Social Security benefits for lawenforcement officers by repealing both the "WindfallElimination Provision" (WEP) and the "GovernmentPension Offset" (GPO).

B. Opposing any legislation that would require theparticipation of public employees in Social Secu-rityThe FOP also vehemently opposes legislation whichwould mandate participation in Social Security for cur-rent or newly hired public employees who participatein their own retirement systems and do not pay intoSocial Security.

II. Support the "Public Safety Employer-Employee Co-operation Act"The FOP strongly supports this legislation, which wouldguarantee the right of public employees to bargain col-lectively with their employers over hours, wages and con-ditions of employment. The bill mandates that each Statepass laws providing minimum collective bargaining rightsto their public safety employees and outlines certain provisions to be included in those laws. Strikes and lock-outs are prohibited by the bill and States with collective

bargaining laws already on the books will be exempt fromthe Federal statute.III. Support H.R. 1789, the "State and Local Law En-forcement Discipline, Accountability and Due ProcessAct"The FOP strongly supports H.R. 1789, legislation whichwould create a "bill of rights" for law enforcement officerswho are, in a number of jurisdictions, denied their due pro-cess rights by police administrators and management in non-criminal proceedings. There is a need for a minimum level ofprocedural protections for law enforcement officers accusedof administrative wrongdoing because of the gravity of po-tential harm to officers created by this lack of uniform safe-guards.IV. Support H.R. 324The FOP strongly supports legislation giving certain Federallaw enforcement officers employed by the U.S. Departmentof Defense statutory arrest authority.V. Support H.R. 327/S. 985, the "Law Enforcement Of-ficers' Equity Act"The FOP supports legislation which would provide 6(c) ben-efits to approximately 30,000 Federal law enforcement of-ficers who currently do not have them.

For more information, please feel free to contact the Na-tional Legislative Office at (202) 547-8189 or via e-mail.

Top Legislative Priorities for the 112th Congress

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Benefits

Notes from the SecretarySec. Cynthia Dunn-DuHart

You should receive your membership card in a timelymanner after you join. If not, please notifiy thesecretary.

When you join the FOP and you request that webill you for your dues, please be advised that themembership process is not completed until yourdues have been received.

***Members or Members’ Family Members Who are Deceased, Sick or In Distress ****

So that the Lodge can respond in a timely manner,please notify the chaplain or any board member If:•You, or a member of your immediate family, be-comes ill or in distress.•A member of your immediate family dies.•You know of a fellow brother/sister, or their imme-diate family member, who is deceased, sick or indistress.

New Member Information

A Message from Our Sgt-at-Arms-- Bro. Albert Garrett

Are You Signed In?At our meetings we have two (2) sign in sheets -- one for our POSTtraining and the other for our Lodge. If you attend the training class,please ensure that you have signed in on both sheets.

Don’t forget to bring your new membership card for 2013 to our meetings.If you do not have a membership card, please ensure that you are amember in good standing or see the secretary.

Payroll Authorization

If you have signed up for payroll authorization andyour dues have not been deducted, please notifythe secretary.

Changes in Your Work Status

If you have been paying your dues via payroll authori-zation AND:you RETIRE, just contact the secretary to

change your status and for your dues payment.

resign from Fulton County to go and work for another law enforcement agency, you can still

maintain your membership with the Lodge, justcontact the secretary to change your status.At that time you can pay your dues forward oryou can elect to pay them on a monthly paymentplan via Paypal.

INFORMATION UPDATEIf ANY of your personal information changes, i.e.name, address, telephone number, please notify thesecretary of the corrections or you can log on to theNational website (www.fop.net) and make thechanges yourself. If there are any changes in yourbeneficiary information, please notifiy the secretaryand she will mail you out a new form.

Philadelphia Police Officer Isabel Nazario Memorial Softball TournamentThis first ever softball tournament honoring Philadelphia Police Officer Isabel Nazario,killed in the line of duty on September 5, 2008, is being planned for March 2013. It willbe held on the island of Puerto Rico.

Isabel, a native of Puerto Rico, became a Philadelphia Police Officer, but maintained ahome in Mayaquez, PR and still has extensive family on the island. The tournamentwould be run in conjunction with the Police of Puerto Rico. (see NAZARIO pg. 4)

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2012 TRAINING & RANGE DATES(TBA)

(You must present your membership card for Range Qualifications classes.)

Your FOP Membership card AND pass-word are your passports to our Lodgemeetings. You must be a member ingood standing for Use of Force andRange Requalification classes.

Also, if you re-ceive a friend in-vite from Sec. C.

Dunn-DuHart or 2nd VP Ron Burgess, please ac-cept so that you can receive information up-dates from the Lodge.

LODGE TRAINING INFOOn our Lodge meeting nights, a block of training willbe offered. This training will be start at 1700 hours.Please be advised, you must:

1. You must be present at or before 1700 hours to receive POST credit hours for the training.2. Sign in on the C-12 sheet3. You must enter your State OC# on the sign in sheet.

For Range Dates and the training for this month contact: Bro. Greg Winds at (404) 867-6083 or Sis. Sherry Grant at (770) 861-1649.

TRAINING at 5:00 p.m.Please Be On Time!!! NO LATE ADMITTANCE!!!

PAYPAL IS UP AND RUNNING

PayPal is up and running. Simply go to ourwebsite and click on the PayPal page for instruc-tions. All of your information is between youand PayPal ONLY. Our Lodge is not priviledgedto any of your personal information.

NAZARIO (cont’d from pg. 3) Officer Rivera, Philadel-phia Police, assigned to Isabel's unit, is looking for teamsthat would like to participate in this charity event. Moneyraised would go to FOP Lodge 5 Survivors' Fund and tohelp Agent Carlos Hernandez from Puerto Rico's StatePolice. Agent Hernandez's son, Carlos Jr., is battling can-cer and is now facing mounting medical bills and furtherexpensive medical treatment.

More information can be obtained by contacting OfficerRichard Rivera, Philadelphia Police Narcotic StrikeForce, at 267-348-7888 or by e-mail at:richardrivera2164@comcast.net.

Fulton County FOP Lodge #64 29 Years of Service

“Remembering Our Past,Claiming Our Present,

Preparing For Our Future”

NEWS FROM ...

COUNTY PRISON - Corrections Off II - $37,354CREW WORKER - $22,727POLICE/ADMIN. - Police Officer I - $35,543 Police Officer II - $37,354POLICE/COMM. - Comm Dispatcher I - $32,181Required: 30 wpm

Please remember our sick and shut-in broth-ers and sisters in your prayers. Don’t forgetto visit, call or send a card to them.

Our Known Sick and Shut-Ins

For more info call: (770) 477-3239 Website:http://www.claytoncountyga.gov/depart-ments/human-resources

Fulton County Lodge #64Fraternal Order of Police

Newsletter Editor:Sec. Cynthia Dunn-DuHart

Email: captjailbird@fop.netPhone: (404) 310-5475

in Our Thoughts & Prayers

Let’s Keep Our Members in the U. S. Armed Forces

Bro. Moncina Smith, FCSOBro. Cecil Pace, FC SolCol. Arthur Reid, FCSOBro. Raymond Johnson, FCSOBro. R. E. Orr, Ga FOPSis. Yvonne Fears, FCSOBro. Alvin Lee, FCSOSis. Hazelene Jenkins, FCMO

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Police Captain - $4,354.00 - $7,076.00 MonthlyPolice Chief - $8,240.00 - $13,551.00 Monthly

For more info go to: http://agency.governmentjobs.com/dekalbga

Detention Officer I - For more info call: 404-298-8100 or go to: http://www.dekalbsheriff.org/web/employment

If you have not received your 2013 mem-bership card AND have paid your duesor have payroll authorization, pleasecontact the secretary at (404) 310-5475.

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Happy New Year!!!! Welcome 2013 -- A new year. A time of new things. Some of us are lucky enough to get new patrolcars. Some of us got a new Sheriff. There will be new Super Bowl, World Series, and NBA champions. Some of us havemade new New Year’s resolutions and some of us have renewed New Year’s resolutions that were not kept last year. Andfor me…a new puzzle book.

There are times when I enjoy doing pencil puzzles, and the idea about what to share this time out came as I was holding anew “Dell Pencil Puzzle.” One type of puzzle I’ve discovered in the last year is called Tanglewords. It’s similar to a cross-word puzzle in that you fit words into a pre-defined grid. It differs in that you fill in the blank with words from a provided listof words rather than working from definitions. The grid has some black squares that you work around, and the startingletters of each word are filled in for you. There are multiple words of varying lengths for each letter supplied. The object,then, is to decide which word comes off of each starting letter and in what direction…up, down, or diagonal. You have astarting letter in a particular square; all around that square may be lines of squares 8 or 10 squares long, and you might have5 words in the list starting with that letter that are all 5 to 8 characters long. Any one of them would fit in any one of theavailable spaces. You have to look for clues as to which is the right word. Sometimes if you move to a different startingletter and get a word from there, it becomes more apparent which word fits with the other letter. Some words fit in easily;many take more study and thought.

Occasionally, I mess it up badly enough that I give up. In either case, I turn to anew page and there’s a new puzzle waiting for me – a new grid and a new set ofwords to place in it. It dawned on me that there are similarities between our livesand the book containing Tangleword puzzles. In a sense the new puzzle bookrepresents a new year in our lives…a new year containing new puzzles, newchallenges, new opportunities. The puzzles themselves are a picture of our lives.If we look at our lives – at the future – we’ll see that we have a “blank grid” which we fill in with the little details of life.

The “word list” that we have to work with is comprised of our priorities and the things that make up our life, such as work,family, friends, entertainment, recreation and possessions. It’s up to us to fit these things into our lives so that the puzzle iscomplete. Each word has a particular place to fit as they intertwine to form a satisfying (completed) puzzle. And of course,just when we get the puzzle complete…everything fitted just right, we turn the page, and there’s a new puzzle facing us. Thelist of words for this new puzzle may or may not contain all of the same words as the previous one. It may containpromotion, a new job in a different agency, a new home, a new health problem, or change in a friendship.

Like with the puzzle in the book, some words in our lives are obvious where they fit…others we have to study on to figureout just where they fit. Unlike the puzzle in the book, however, in real life we sometimes try to put in words that aren’tsupposed to be in there. When we get things wrong, the puzzle won’t work. Sometimes too, words are deleted by eventswhich may be beyond our control, and they leave empty places. When that happens, as hard as it may be, we have to turnthe page and start on a new puzzle with “heartache” and “memories” in the word list. But giving up and throwing the bookaway should never be an option.

For some, all the words can be fitted into the puzzle grid, but there are some areas that have no letters in them. If you lookcarefully, those places are probably three letters long. You can’t leave “God” out of the word list and truly have a completedpuzzle. And as we place the words into our puzzle, we need to periodically keep checking in the back of the book (theBible) to see if we’re doing it right.

As we go into this new year, I pray that you are successful in completing your puzzle(s). And don’t forget to keep God inthe word list and check with Him often to see how you’re doing. Thanks for “riding along.” Blessings to you and yours.

by Chaplain Bill WolfeLlano County Texas Sheriff's Department

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President - Howard Billingslea ........... (770) 861-0912 ..............billingsleah@bellsouth.net1st Vice President - Sherry Grant........ (770) 861-1649 ...............sherrycmf@comcast.net2nd Vice President - Ronald Burgess......(404) 713-6685 .........,......rcbugres@bellsouth.netSecretary - Cynthia Dunn-DuHart .........(404) 310-5475 ...................captjailbird@fop.netTreasurer - Gregory Lauth .................(404) 314-9997 ..............captgdlauth@hotmail.comSgt.-at-Arms - Albert Garrett ..............(770) 634-9657.................ajgarret@bellsouth.netChaplain - Frank Wildy ......................(404) 454-3784 .........................fwildy@aol.comState Trustee - Gregory Winds ............(404) 276-2787.......................Majwinds@aol.comLodge Attorney - Derek Jones, Esq. ......(404) 549-3036/(770) 716-1306

Our 2012 Executive Board

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2012 Atlanta Walk for Lupus

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First responders living in the path of HurricaneSandy need you. Just as so many in the communities theyserve, law enforcement officers are not only standing guard,many are also left homeless.

Long Island Beach, NJ, a coastal community, wasdevastated by the destructive forces of Hurricane Sandy.Our National Secretary, Patrick Yoes, stated that for fourdays he worked alongside dedicated volunteers from theDC FOP Lodge and Florida State FOP Lodge who werecollectively providing assistance to those in need. He wit-nessed firsthand the hardships of so many, but also noted asolid sense of pride and a sense of community from a strongand resilient people who will overcome this adversity.

Now, more than at any other time, it is so impor-tant to give to the FOP Foundation's Disaster Relief Fund.We need your help just as you did in Hurricane Katrina,Joplin, MO tornados and others. Please send your dona-

tions to the National FOP Foundation, 701 Marriott Drive,Nashville, TN 37214, and keep our FOP members and thecitizens affected by these tragic events in your thoughts andprayers.

When you see the devastation of these weather di-sasters on your television screen, know this - but by theGrace of God, it is not your family's misery or your shat-tered home shown on that screen. However, if it were, findcomfort that your brothers and sisters in blue would be therefor you as well.

Please note on your donations that it is for HurricaneSandy relief. Every penny donated to the FOP FoundationDisaster Relief Fund will support officers recovering fromHurricane Sandy.

The FOP has already distributed over $70,000 in di-saster aid to officers affected by Hurricane Sandy.

Retirees should expect to receive new health and dentalcards in the mail early in January. (If the mailing addresson your most recent benefit check stub is not correct, con-tact Pension Office staffer, Tonja Perry asap atTonja.perry@fultoncountyga.gov or 404-612-7229.) Vi-sion cards will only be distributed to new participants. Cur-rent medical and dental cards will not work on or after Janu-ary 1. If you do not have your medical and/or dental cardand you need to access care, please contact the Pensionoffice at 404-612-4228 or 404-612-7615. If you have

Blue Cross medical coverage, you will be provided with acopy of an electronic version of your medical card. If youhave dental coverage, you will be provided with your uniquedental member id# and the Aetna Dental customer servicenumber. This information can be given to your dental pro-vider in order to access care. If you enrolled in the MedicareAdvantage plan, your cards should arrive before January 1.

Reminder to all dental participants: Aetna Dental is ournew dental care administrator effective January 1.

2013 Fulton County Benefit Update for Benefit-Eligible Retirees

THE EXECUTIVE BOARDFULTON COUNTY LODGE #64FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE

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ATTENTION:ALL FULTON COUNTY EMPLOYEES

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In 2013, you can continue to have your duesdeducted via Payroll Authorization.

Both your dues AND the Legal Defense Plancan be deducted from your check.

If you have any questions, please contact the secretary.

Payroll Deduction

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honoring the dream ofDr. Martin Luther King

(January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)

Some kings rule their kingdoms sitting down Surrounded by luxury, soft cushions and fans But this King stood strong, stood proud, stood tall.

When the driver told Rosa, "Move to the back of the bus!" When the waiter told students, "We don't serve your kind!" When the Mayor told voters, "Your vote don't count!" And when the sheriff told marchers, "Get off our streets!" using fire hoses, police dogs and cattle prods to move them along This King stood strong, stood proud, stood tall.

Speaking of peace of love and children hand in hand free at last, free at lastWhen some yelled for violence ...For angry revenge An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth He stood his ground ...Preaching peace

And when some spit out hate He stood there smiling -- Spreading love -- Until it rolled like the sea across the land, Sweeping away Jim Crow -- Breaking down the walls Ringing the bell -- Joyfully for Freedom

Until standing on the mountain top They shot him -- Coldly Hoping to see him fall -- Hoping to put him away -- To bring him low.

But this King -- even in death -- even today Stands strong -- stands proud -- stands tall -- And We Remember!!!!!!!!!! -- by Jamie McKenzie

Fulton County Lodge #64Fraternal Order of Police2896 East Point StreetEast Point, Georgia 30344

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Fulton County FOP Lodge #64 meets on the 4th Thursdays of the month,except in November and December, at 6:00 p.m. POST Training Classesstart at 5:00 p.m.

January Meeting, Thursday, January 24, 2013.February Meeting, Thursday, February 28, 2013.March Meeting, Thursday, March 24, 2013.March, Officers’ Memorial Service, TBA

***Please Note OUR Meeting LocationUS Dining Hall on the Woodward Academy Campus (Rugby Avenue in College Park, GA) Please park in the parking lot. NO ON STREET PARKING PERMITTED!!!!!!

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