Region One Flash – Volume 3, No. 9 – September, 2005
Texas Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association – Region One
P. O. Box 741515, Houston, Texas 77274-1515
Charles Billingsley, Houston, Editor and Publisher (713-729-1546)
President – Carroll Bagley, Liberty County (936-334-3398)
Vice President – Tom Lane, Houston (713-771-0016)
Secretary – Jeanne Canales – Sugar Land (281-530-2733)
Treasurer – Joyce Beeson – Lake Jackson (979-297-5909)
Directors – Leo Waltz, Webster (281-316-2255); Delores Gant Pearland (281-997-1015); Vacant
The September Region One meeting will be at the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Citizens Academy Alumni Association in Conroe on Saturday, September 10, 2005 at 10:00 A.M. at the Clint Peoples Training Academy, #1 Criminal Justice Drive. The program will be on “Shattered Lives.” Take I-45 North to North Loop 336 Exit. (Be sure you go to North 336; there is a South 336 before you get to North 336). Turn right (East) on 336 to First Street and turn right on First Street. Continue on First Street till you cross the railroad tracks (the road will wind to your left and cross over the railroad tracks where you will come to a stop sign) and continue on Hillbig Road (you will pass the drivers license office) to Criminal Justice Drive and turn right on Criminal Justice Drive. The Clint Peoples Training Academy is at the end of Criminal Justice Drive. Thomas Bach’s cell phone is 936-443-6535 in case you get lost. Come early for refreshments.
The October Region One meeting will be in Pearland on Saturday, October 8, 2005. Mark your calendar and make your plans.
Note from Brenham:
The Brenham CPAAA would like to thank all who made the trip to Brenham for the Region One meeting on August 13th. We hope you enjoyed yourselves and took in some of the Washington County sights and Blue Bell Creamery. We look forward to seeing all in Montgomery.
Bob Armour, President, Brenham CPAAA
We would like to increase our attendance and show our appreciation to the sponsoring CPA’s. Please try to have at least one member from your Alumni at Region One each month. Keep in mind that the meetings have been changed to 10:00 A.M. to allow for late risers to attend.
Members in good standing in 2005 as of July 31, 2005 are Alvin, Angleton, Austin County, Brenham, Deer Park, Dickinson, Galveston, Galveston Sheriff, Houston, Kemah, Lake Jackson, League City, Liberty County, Matagorda County, Montgomery County, Pasadena, Pearland, Richmond, Rosenberg, Sugar Land, Texas City, Tomball, Webster and Margaret Hooper, Individual (Harris County Sheriff). If you have not paid your Region One dues for 2005 of $30.00, you may pay at the September meeting or mail to Joyce Beeson, 413 Huckleberry Drive, Lake Jackson, Texas 77566-4318. Welcome to Margaret Hooper of the Harris County Sheriff and Deer Park as new members in good standing.
At the meeting in Brenham in August, David Jusiewicz from Mansfield, who is on the board of the state organization and is one of the prime movers in getting state organized, presented an opportunity for any member of a CPAAA in good standing to be a charter member of the state organization by contributing to a “seed money” fund for the startup of the state organization. This money would be used for administrative costs – printing, postage, office supplies, etc. – and none would be used for overhead, salaries, fees, etc. If you wish to contribute $10.00 or more to become a charter member, send your contribution to David Jusiewicz, 712 East Dallas Street, Mansfield, Texas 76063-2048. David’s phone number is 817-477-3218.
Schedule for 2005:
January 8 - Webster
February 12 – Lake Jackson
March 12 – Houston
April 9 – Angleton
May 14 - Dickinson
June 11 – Liberty
July 9 – League City
August 13 – Brenham
September 10 – Montgomery County
October 8 – Pearland
November 12– Texas City
December 10 - TBA
Treasurer’s Report (submitted by Joyce Beeson):
Balance 6-30-05 $1,896.46
Receipts:
Dues 90.00
Sale of Pins 25.00
Sale of Shirts 30.00
Disbursements:
Refund of Dues – Amelia Collins (10.00)
Balance 7-31-05 $2,031.46
Balance in Scholarship Fund at 6-30-05 $883.02
Interest .76
Balance 7-31-05 $883.78
The Region One Newsletter and the Region One Bylaws are on the Webster CPAAA web site, courtesy of Leo Waltz, Region One director. The new officers of the Texas State CPAAA are also on this site. The site is www.orgsites.com/tx/wcpaaa Look for the new state bylaws on the state website – www.tcpaaconvention.org/TCPAAA .
The Galveston CPAAA is having a Giant Yard Sale on October 8, 2005 at a location to be announced. They need items donated for sale and if you can help or have items to donate or for further info, call Jack Danner at 409-762-2526.
The Lake Jackson CPAAA is having a golf tournament on October 8, 2005 to raise funds for a Child Identification System live scan fingerprint system. For further information, contact Gene Brannon, 979-297-7939, gbrannan@houston.rr.com or Faye Burke, 979-297-8696, fbvb1976@swbell.net .
Directories. Region One Directories are now ready and if you didn’t pick yours up at Brenham, you may pick it up at the September meeting in Montgomery County.
Convention dates and locations have been announced for 2006! The Texas Citizen Police Academy Alumni Convention will be in Garland/Richardson on July 19-22, 2006, “Common Ground”. Details are available on their web site - www.TCPAAconvention.org The National Citizen Police Academy Association Conference will be in South Bend, Indiana, the home of Notre Dame University, on May 10-12, 2006, “Citizens and Police partnering together for a safer community…one academy at a time”. Their web site is www.nationalcpaa.org . These promise to be two great conventions. Why not make your vacation plans for 2006 to include one or both?
Region One Officers and Directors are soliciting suggestions about how to make the Region One meetings better in order to increase attendance. Call any of them with your suggestions.
For those who are going to present activities for your Alumni at future meetings, please prepare your write up in advance and give the secretary a hard copy and a disc so she won’t have to retype. If you do not submit a written report, it will not be included in the Flash. A good shortcut to get your news in the Flash is to send it directly to CharlBill@AOL.com in the body of an e-mail or as a MS Word attachment to an e-mail.
An association can only be functional and vibrant through the attendance and participation
of it’s members. Please plan to attend the Region One meetings whenever possible.
AUGUST MEETING. We were graciously hosted by the Brenham CPAAA on August 13th. After a welcoming greeting by the Brenham Chief Petrash and Liaison Officer Tommy Nettle and Brenham President Bob Armour, an excellent program on Accident Reconstruction was presented by the TEEX Training Coordinator. A special guest, Mr. David Jusiewicz of Mansfield, gave an overview of the state organization, its new bylaws and the progress being made in establishing the new organization. Many questions were asked about the future of the state convention and the state organization and were answered by David. One interesting point that was brought out was that an Alumni member may become a member of the state organization by going to the convention where $10.00 of his registration fee is for state membership or by paying $10.00 for a membership fee if you do not go to the convention. A motion was made and approved that profits from the sale of pins and patches would go to the scholarship fund. Region One needs to elect one civilian member and one officer as delegates to the state organization. They must be willing to attend the board meetings whenever possible. To nominate a civilian or officer, e-mail Jeanne Canales at ladybugjean@sbcglobal.net . The resignation of director Billie Richey of Houston was accepted and a motion was made and approved to leave the post vacant until the election of new officers in November. There were 40 Alumni members present representing 12 Associations.
ALUMNI NEWS
Angleton. 10 Angleton Alumni and 2 Angleton PD staff attended the CPAAA state convention in Waco. All agreed it was a great conference with informative classes and round table discussions. Even though no one got to yell “BINGO” we all had fun. Let’s do it again!!! Thanks Waco for ordering that perfect weather we had. Capt. Katherine Davis announced that the next CPA class will begin September 15, 2005. This will be our 14th class. Angleton will award at least (2) $500 scholarships this semester. On October 15th the Alumni will participate in the Annual Brazoria County Fair parade. Alumni member Heather Fenter is chairing this event. We’ll begin advertising the Blue Santa program within the next 6 weeks. Angleton recently completed their first Junior Citizen Police Academy. 18 young people, between the ages of 14 and 18 graduated.
Submitted by Dottie Duby
Brenham. June 2nd we held our annual Garage Sale which is one of our two fund raisers. June 18th the COP's worked the Juneteenth Parade. July 16th was our annual picnic with a cookout and swimming at the local Gun and Rod Club. July 20th was Kid's Day at the local High School where the CPA's and COP’s assisted with kids ID's. July 27 thru 30 we attended the Convention in Waco. August 2nd was National Night Out with the theme this year "Fiesta" with members dressing up in costume and riding with the police officers. August 13th we will host the Region One meeting. August 20th we will partner with the Fire Department for the "GUNS and HOSES" Blood Drive. September 14 thru 17 we will man the gates at the Washington County Fair. This is our second and largest fund raiser. Submitted by Bob Armour
Deer Park. 4 members attended the Waco convention. Made Victims Assistant Sheets. Tim Miller from Equisearch came to train all members. We have 36 members. Currently working with the police dept. by calling on warrants. Working on cookbooks for Christmas. Stuffed and delivered information sheets, misc. police information, and coloring books to each host at National Night Out. Working on changing the town’s ordinance to allow CPAAA to begin handicap enforcement. Class 14 begins September 1st.Meetings are 1st Thursday of each month. Submitted by Sylvia Garlowich
Dickinson. WE HAVE 6 BRICKS PURCHASED FROM MEMBERS FOR THE ENTRANCE TO OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT. CARING HANDS SENT SYMPATHY AND BIRTHDAY CARDS TO OUR POLICE PERSONNEL. CITIZENS ON PATROL HAVE HAD 23 PATROLS SINCE THE 1* OF THE YEAR. LIAISON CINDY PAGE MET WITH CAPTAIN KRONE ON OUR NATIONAL NIGHT OUT ON AUGUST 2. OUR CPAAA CLASS 11 STARTED JULY 14.th. WE HAVE 55 PAID MEMBERS AS OF JULY 19. WE HAD A BARBEQUE FUNDRAISER JULY 30. OUR STUDENT CPAAA GRADUATED AUGUST 3 AT 6;30 pm AT THE V.F.W. WE HAD A BOOTH AT THE CONVENTION IN WACO. OUR CHIEF RON MORALES AND HIS WIFE, OUR PRESIDENT CAROL SUDERMAN AND HER HUSBAND, AND 12 MEMBERS WERE IN ATTENDANCE. OUR PAST PRESIDENT BEN HERNANDEZ WAS NOMINATED AND ELECTED PRESIDENT OF OUR NEW TEXAS CPAAA. OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT OFFICER OF THE YEAR WAS OFFICER WAYNE STEWARD AND OUR MEMBER OF THE YEAR WAS WILENA CATO. Submitted by Calvin Walker
Harris County Sheriff. Harris County CPA has 5 districts. District III gives a birthday card to each deputy in its district, along with a gun cleaning cloth. Last year the gift was a pair of handcuffs. District IV does finger printing once a year at a chiropractor. This will be the 4th year, probably in October. On September 24th, we will be participating in “Law Enforcement Day” at Greenspoint Mall (Highway 45 & Beltway 8). Local, county, state, and federal law enforcement agencies bring statistic displays, booths, etc. to interact with the public. Anyone wanting a booth, contact Margaret Hooper. Booth must be pre-registered, cannot just show up. For the first time in my knowledge, officers from the Harris County Sheriff’s office attended a state CPA Convention. Both Major Robert Van Pelt, Bureau Commander of the Patrol Support Services Bureau Central Command, and Lieutenant Randy Casteel, under Major Van Pelt, who will be arranging the CPA classes and looking into what the CPAAA can participate in, attended the Waco Convention. They were both impressed and excited about the prospects of utilizing the Harris County CPAAA in future endeavors. Both are new to the CPA. Submitted by Margaret J. Hooper
Houston. Houston will start CPA Class 37 on September 8th and all Spanish Class S-36 on September 7th. Both classes will graduate in a joint graduation on November 17th. Houston will hold it’s election for officers and directors for 2006 on September 1st and they will be installed on October 6th. Submitted by Charles Billingsley
Lake Jackson. Ways and Means Committee, especially Fay Burke, Laura Brandes, and Horace Driskill. - the hard work paid off! We were awarded a $25,000 grant from Dow chemical Company to help with the purchase of the fingerprint machine for the police department!. Class 23 of the Lake Jackson Citizen Police Academy starts September 8. We helped with National Night Out on 8-2-05, helped serve drinks and food and passed out apps for next CPA class. We participated in an Alzheimer’s Class on 7-28-05 by Brenda Carr of the Alzheimer's Association of Houston and Southeast Texas. We videoed the program for future training sessions. It was a very informative program presented by a dynamic and compassionate speaker who gave us some important tools in dealing with victims of this disease and their families. Planning a golf tournament for October to help raise more funds for the Blue Santa Program.
Montgomery County.
August. Youth Bass Club for Kids at April Plaza Marina in Conroe. Shots Across Texas at Peet Jr. High School. Class of 2005 began. 36 people have signed up for this years class. Aug 2: Members helped with the National Night Out in The Woodlands. Aug 6: Conroe Outlet Mall - finger printing and car ID Vin Numbers. Aug 11: Our 8th class started for the Citizens Academy. Our Alumni is sponsoring the 2005 class. Volunteer's helped put manuals together for 2005 class. Alumni is sponsoring the class. Volunteer's have logged 50 plus hours from Feb to date.
September. Sept 10: Host for the Region One meeting. Speaker will be Mike Valdez of the DA’s office. Our program will be on "Shattered Lives". Location address: #1 Criminal Justice Dr. at the Clint Peoples Training Center, Conroe, Texas. This is our first time to host a meeting and we are very excited about this. We hope to see everyone there. ALSO on this day we are helping with a FUN RUN to help East County Pet ‘s to raise money for their "Santa's Kids Project". Our meetings are the 3rd Monday of each month.
Submitted by Jeanette Graff and Rita Crosby
Pearland. National Night Out-Great Success. Class 21 Starts August 18th . Meet the City will be in October.
Pearland will host Region I in October. Purchase of Digital Camera & Breathlizer Test.
Sugar Land. The police dept. had about 130 parties signed up to visit at National Night Out. Some of the board members and officers rode with the police to some of the parties. Some of the members worked a booth at Slockett Park, named after Officer Slockett, who was killed in the line of duty, located in Barrington Place with all of the food, activities for children, the Boy Scouts, karate organization, music, and it was put on by the Barrington Place Home Owners Association. Our Next Class to be announced. We are in the middle of Chief changes, further plans to be announced later. Our board meets on the 1st Tuesday of the month and the General Meeting is on the 2nd Tuesday.
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Tom Lane – Houston
Carroll Bagley – Liberty County
Bill Kubenka – Rosenberg
Georgie Benavides – Webster
Ruth Hance – Deer Park
Rita Crosby – Montgomery County Sheriff
Evelyn Phillips – Liberty
Vickie Butler – Tomball
Robert Bertrand – Matagorda County
Andrew Danner – Galveston
Craig Lauck – Galveston
Thomas Bach – Montgomery County