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Home > Blogs > Things to do in Butler County > Archives > 2009 > March > 24 > Entry

Local FOPA and Riverbank Cafe team up for a night of awareness and appreciation

By Richard O Jones | Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 03:00 PM

The Riverbank Cafe has teamed up with the Fraternal Order of Police Associates Lodge 19 (FOPA) in Hamilton and Butler County for a fund-raising and awareness-raising event, 6 to 10 p.m. Friday, March 27.

“We’re inviting all law enforcement personnel to come down and meet the public in a friendly atmosphere so we can all get to know each other better,” said FOPA president Tim Spoonster.

The general public is also invited to come and socialize with local law enforcement officials, and 15 percent of the revenues for the evening will be donated to the FOPA. “Sometimes, society is a little distanced from the officers,” said Dennis Kurlas, owner of the Riverbank Cafe. “This is a place where we come to have fun while these guys are out living in danger protecting us.”

The band 99 IQ will perform during the event.

The FOPA, Spoonster said, is an organization of community members that come together to support the efforts of Police and Law enforcement personnel throughout the state of Ohio.

“Our State Lodge provides funds to the State Fraternal Order of Police to give assistance to the families of fallen policemen, scholarships to officers and their children and support for the offices of the FOP,” he said.

On a local level, FOPA Lodge 19 supports law enforcement agencies including the Hamilton, Fairfield, Oxford, Ross Township, Oxford Township and Miami University police departments, along with county officers in the prosecutors, coroners and bailiffs, and Butler County Park District Rangers.

FOPA funds have been used for police retirement and recognition activities, an annual Halloween candy distribution and the Christmas Caravan, which distributed food and presents to 25 families last holiday season.

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