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Suitcases for Kids program
Any used suitcases, book bags, athletic bags will be collected on AUG 30--31. Please donate and help a kid. We all know that we have items around our homes that can help others. Drop off at Wende Van near front gate, before you come to work.

Leave Donation:
Lyn Fralick- Business Office- is in need of time donations. If you can help-please do so taday

Retirement
Wendy Jensen is retiring after 37++ years. When you see her in the hallways-wish her well.
Party Sept 21 4:00pm till ???
Pine Lodge
164 Clinton St.
Cowlesville NY
Donation of $10--cash bar

IG INVESTIGATIONS
never, never see IG on your own. We have UNION reps to accompany you to any IG investigation.
We had an Officer yesterday that was in so much of a hurry to get to work that he was interviewed by IG by himself and then refused to talk with McKeel afterward because he was in a hurry to do his job. In the meantime it is not known what was said to IG. 2nd Officer had Union Rep. but had no way of knowing what was asked of 1st Officer. Lets stick together. I will not post this CO's name on this page, but remember to watch who you are working with, before you do anything. Cover Your Ass. The Officer in question here is a fine CO, but a real workhorse who does not want overtime-as it makes him look bad that he can't complete his job in 8 hrs.

Hang tough and watch each others backs.

Officer in need

Officer Wilbur Green needs time donations. He is awaiting a kidney transplant.
Rally together around one of our own, and give him some time and our prayers.
I have contacted Correctional Peace Officers Foundation for cash assistance.
They have helped many of our Brothers and Sisiters at Wende. However they do it behind the scenes, so as not to embarrass anyone.
Consider joining this fine organization
www.CPOf.org
The minimum donation is $5 a month ($2.50) taken directly from your check.
It is non-profit and your donations are TAX EXEMPT
Many Officers at Wende belong-if you need more info conact me.

Condolences go out to Officer S.Browne and his family on the murder of his brother in Buffalo.

Congrats to Sgt. Lucas on being promoted to LT.

Sgt. B, the 3-11 shift will not be the same.

Hope everyone had fun at Goords retirement bar-b-q
They didn't have the best Bar b q sauce because Officer Simmons was not asked to supply his!
www.bubblesqsauce.com

Hang tough and watch each others backs!

Uniform allowance update

I just found, on
a fully legalese version of our paybill. It's much longer & confusing than the 'edited' version the Comptroller had posted on his web site.
But, it clears up something that has many of us pretty upset.

Here's the real poop:

each such employee who is on the payroll on the first day of November preceding the annual effective date shall receive an allowance for cleaning and maintenance at the rate of $575 per year effective December 1, 2003, at the rate of $625 per year effective December 1, 2004, at the rate of $725 per year effective December 1, 2005, and at a rate of $875 effective December 1, 2006 in accordance with the determination made by the public arbitration panel. Those employees entitled to the foregoing benefit and who work in a shock incarceration camp will receive an additional $50 on each of the effective dates in accordance with any such determination made by the public arbitration panel. Such amounts, for all of the above, shall be offset by payments already received as uniform allowance in each year and the remainder shall be calculated as part of a retroactive payment. Effective March 31, 2007, the uniform allowance of $875 shall be increased for such unit members to whom the provisions of this section apply to $1,075 and shall be added to the basic annual salary of those employees in payroll status on March 30, 2007. Effective March 31.

Now, this is the actual language of the bill that went before the state senate & the state asembly and was passed...
You can read the whole stinkin' thing here: nysosc9.osc.state.ny.us/.../$FILE/LAWS%20OF%20NEW%20YORK-2006-CHAPTER%20113.doc

The real hero was the one who was shot

This appeared in the Buffalo News 8/20.
Seeing that it's about an escaped inmate, I thought I'd post it here..

By DONN ESMONDE
I am not amused.
None of us should be amused. There is nothing to be amused about.
Burn the "Run Bucky Run" T-shirts. Stuff the Bucky Burgers in the dumpster. Spare me the photo of the fugitive wearing a state trooper cap. End the idea that this is a romantic, "Thelma and Louise" flight for freedom.
Any suggestion that Ralph "Bucky" Phillips' saga is worth more than dirt and spit ended the night a bullet tore into state Trooper Sean Brown. Tests on the recovered gun put Phillips' finger on the trigger. That violent moment two months ago blew apart any notion that this is a perversely amusing fox-outsmarts-the-hunters tale.
The ongoing story is not about a career criminal, chronic loser and violent menace named Ralph Phillips. It is not about a guy who spent most of his adult life behind bars because he was too dangerous to mingle among ordinary folks. It is not about an escaped felon hiding in the woods, stealing cars and apparently getting food and shelter from wrong-headed folks.
No. The story is about Sean Brown, who was protecting us when police say Phillips put a bullet in his abdomen. As Brown fell, badly wounded, Phillips fled into the night - for all he knew leaving a corpse behind.
By the grace of God, the bullet did not obliterate a vital organ, did not cut Sean Brown's spinal cord or sever a prime artery. By the grace of God, Sean Brown recovered from his wound. On Aug. 8, in a milestone far bigger than any Bucky antic, Brown strapped on the gun and went back to work.
Whether he still has the nightmares that naturally come after you lay gut-shot on the road, only Sean Brown knows. I just hope that his psyche healed with his wound. I'd tell him so, except Brown is limiting media contact.
I know this much: Brown is married, 30, with two small children. When the call came for volunteers to help Katrina victims, he was first on the list for New Orleans. He helped put together the memorial park honoring trooper and barracks-mate Andrew Sperr, shot dead last March.
"He's the kind of guy," said friend and fellow trooper Mark O'Donnell, "who puts other people first."
The real story is about a decent guy doing a dangerous job. Any pity, sympathy, prayers, cards or casseroles should be sent Brown's way. The T-shirts ought to read "Welcome Back, Sean." The diner menus ought to list a Brown Burger. The Bucky brand is junk food.
Apart from the rest, Phillips' desperate run is costing taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars. The months-long manhunt pulled troopers off road patrol, forced countless hours of surveillance and put police helicopters in the air. It also stuck a bull's-eye on every man and woman who wears a badge - and maybe on anybody who spots Phillips and reaches for a cell phone.
"He is costing taxpayers a lot of money," O'Donnell said. "But if we pull out and he shoots somebody, we take the [blame]."
Chasing an expert woodsman like Phillips means putting your life on the edge. The family of every trooper lives in fear of the phone call that says a husband, father, son or daughter will never come home again. That is the legacy of Ralph Phillips. That is the lens through which this story should be viewed.
Phillips reportedly won't go back to jail. If cornered, he may choose "suicide by cop." It is the coward's way out - and it would force a police officer to shoulder the emotional burden of ending a man's life, however justifiable. It is not right; it is not fair. None of this is.
Stop running, Bucky. You are no hero.
Sean Brown is the hero. You are just a long-lost guy with blood on his hands.