THE GARDA NEWS CELEBRATING 21 YEARS OF CAMARADERIE AND SERVICE Los Angeles Police Emerald Society August / September 2014 Editor - Dennis P. Sullivan President - T. Keleher Los Angeles Police Emerald Society WEB SITE: www.emeraldsociety.net Los Angeles Police Emerald Society FaceBook: www.facebook.com/PoliceEmerald 2014 Los Angeles Police Emerald Society Board Tom Keleher LBPD, President 562-810-6907 [email protected]Mike Vela, LA County DDA, Vice President 562-972-1778 Dennis P. Sullivan LBPD, Treasurer 562-818-6969 Sean Carrion LASD, Sgt.at Arms 562-577-6716 Erin Colleen Sullivan LBHP, Quartermaster 562-760-5142 Please Remit 2014-2015 Dues. $25.00 per year $300.00 Life Time Member Upcoming Events: John McBride (LBPD). Los Angeles Police Em- erald Society Charter Member & 2xSgt. at Arms: A Rerement Hooley will commence on Friday September 12, 2014 5PM at the Long Beach Police Officers Associaon Park 7390 Carson St., Long Beach, Ca., 90808. There will be food, music, bagpipes, and refreshments. John, always the classy professional is picking up the tab. A $5 to $10 dollar donaon would be greatly appreciated. The park is located behind Lowes in the Towne Center. Come out and support a fellow Emerald Socie- ty member who has been there for this organizaon since 1992. Trooper Thorn –September 14 3PM-PM at member owned The Harp 130 E. 17 th St., Costa Mesa, Ca, 92627 (Will Co-Founders, Past Presidents Ma Mulvihill, Bill McNeely and Bill Murphy be in aendance? NCLEES Boston Fall Meeng Septem- ber 25, 2014 thru September 28, 2014. Represenng California will be 14 members from our Los Angeles Police Emerald Society (LAPES), San Diego Law Enforcement Emerald Society (SDLEES) and San Fran- cisco Bay Are Law Enforcement Emerald Society (SFBALEES). Trooper Thorn: Friday September 26, 2014 at 7PM. Member owned Gallagher’s Pub & Grill 2751 E. Broadway, Long Beach, and Ca. 90803 Member Griffin Healy has just returned from Ireland. He will shortly arrange for a private tour of the USS Iowa for our society members. Follow us on Facebook for further details. Irish 66ers: Arrive in Santa Monica on October 2, 2014. They consist of GARDA, acve and rered, who ride mo- torcycles from Chicago to Los Angeles via Route 66. De- tails will follow. Los Angeles Police Emerald Society Charter Member Mike Falvo (LAPD) is having a rerement Hooley. November 7, 2014 at 6PM. Ports O’ Call Village 1199 Nagoya Way, San Pedro, Ca. 90731. Ticket are $40.per person, in advance only. We are reserving Los Angeles Police Emerald Society tables. Please contact Tom Keleher at [email protected]for seats at our tables. Tickets are going fast… November 29, 2014. Los Angeles Police Emerald Soci- ety Annual ND vs USC Game. Party, food, beverage… Save the date, details to follow… Our 2015 Annual St. Patrick’s Day Dinner Fund Raiser. Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 6PM. Los Alamitos Joint Forces Train- ing Base, Los Alamitos, Ca. Save the date. Los Angeles Police Emerald Society Charter member Jim- my Leen (Rialto PD) L-R, Sgt. Chris Sullivan Rialto PD (Ret)., Chief Mike Visser Hunngton Park PD (Ret.). , President Reagan, Deputy Billy O’Connell, LASD Ret). and Det. Jim Leen Rialto PD (Ret). In early 1993, I was invited to meet former President Ronald Reagan at his office in Culver City, Ca. by Fred Ryan, Reagan’s Chief of staff. I brought with me three friends and members of the LA Emerald Society, we presented President Reagan with an Emerald Society jacket, a patch and Honorary Membership to the LA Emerald Society. We also gave President Reagan a Police Chiefs badge, which he turned and said, “look I’m now a Policeman”. Reagan talked about his admiraon for law enforcement officers and his Irish heritage. This was a meeng I will never forget. Cheers, Jim Leen Los Angeles Police Emerald Society Newsletter
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THE GARDA NEWS CELEBRATING 21 YEARS OF CAMARADERIE AND SERVICE
Los Angeles Police Emerald Society
August / September 2014 Editor - Dennis P. Sullivan
Please Remit 2014-2015 Dues. $25.00 per year $300.00 Life Time Member
Upcoming Events:
John McBride (LBPD). Los Angeles Police Em-erald Society Charter Member & 2xSgt. at Arms: A Retirement Hooley will commence on Friday September 12, 2014 5PM at the Long Beach Police Officers Association Park 7390 Carson St., Long Beach, Ca., 90808. There will be food, music, bagpipes, and refreshments. John, always the classy
professional is picking up the tab. A $5 to $10 dollar donation would be greatly appreciated. The park is located behind Lowes in the Towne Center. Come out and support a fellow Emerald Socie-ty member who has been there for this organization since 1992.
Trooper Thorn –September 14 3PM-PM at member owned The Harp 130 E. 17th St., Costa Mesa, Ca, 92627 (Will Co-Founders, Past Presidents Matt Mulvihill, Bill McNeely and Bill Murphy be in attendance?
NCLEES Boston Fall Meeting Septem-ber 25, 2014 thru September 28, 2014. Representing California will be 14 members from our Los Angeles Police Emerald Society (LAPES), San
Diego Law Enforcement Emerald Society (SDLEES) and San Fran-cisco Bay Are Law Enforcement Emerald Society (SFBALEES).
Trooper Thorn: Friday September 26, 2014 at 7PM. Member owned Gallagher’s Pub & Grill 2751 E. Broadway, Long Beach, and Ca. 90803
Member Griffin Healy has just returned from Ireland. He will shortly arrange for a private tour of the USS Iowa for our society members. Follow us on Facebook for further details.
Irish 66ers: Arrive in Santa Monica on October 2, 2014. They consist of GARDA, active and retired, who ride mo-torcycles from Chicago to Los Angeles via Route 66. De-tails will follow.
Los Angeles Police Emerald Society Charter Member Mike Falvo (LAPD) is having a retirement Hooley. November 7, 2014 at 6PM. Ports O’ Call Village 1199 Nagoya Way, San Pedro, Ca. 90731. Ticket are $40.per person, in advance only. We are reserving Los Angeles Police Emerald Society tables. Please contact Tom Keleher at [email protected] for
seats at our tables. Tickets are going fast…
November 29, 2014. Los Angeles Police Emerald Soci-ety Annual ND vs USC Game. Party, food, beverage… Save the date, details to follow…
Our 2015 Annual St. Patrick’s Day Dinner Fund Raiser. Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 6PM. Los Alamitos Joint Forces Train-ing Base, Los Alamitos, Ca. Save the date.
Los Angeles Police Emerald Society Charter member Jim-my Leen (Rialto PD)
L-R, Sgt. Chris Sullivan Rialto PD (Ret)., Chief Mike Visser Huntington Park PD (Ret.). , President Reagan, Deputy Billy O’Connell, LASD Ret). and Det. Jim Leen Rialto PD (Ret).
In early 1993, I was invited to meet former President Ronald Reagan at his office in Culver City, Ca. by Fred Ryan, Reagan’s Chief of staff. I brought with me three friends and members of the LA Emerald Society, we presented President Reagan with an Emerald Society jacket, a patch and Honorary Membership to the LA Emerald Society. We also gave President Reagan a Police Chiefs badge, which he turned and said, “look I’m now a Policeman”.
Reagan talked about his admiration for law enforcement officers and his Irish heritage. This was a meeting I will never forget. Cheers, Jim Leen
THE GARDA NEWS CELEBRATING 21 YEARS OF CAMARADERIE AND SERVICE
Los Angeles Police Emerald Society
August / September 2014 Editor - Dennis P. Sullivan
President - T. Keleher
Recent Events:
The Big Irish Fair LAPES Membership News:
The first ever Big Irish Fair held in Long Beach was a great success according to Emerald Society mem-bers Terry Andersen and Griffin Healy. Terry is the President and Griffin a director with the fair. They have been putting this fair on for 32 years in the LA-OC area. Two of our
Los Angeles Police Emerald Society mem-bers were honored at this year’s fair. Long Beach City Councilman Patrick O’Donnell was honored on Saturday and LAPES Charter member Chief Jim McDonnell was honored on Sunday. The Los Angeles Po-lice Emerald Society Pipes & Drums performed each day. We had
more members volunteer on Saturday and Sunday than we’ve ever had before. We needed the help. We all but sold out of all of our wares. It was a record setting recruitment weekend. We recruited more new members in one weekend, then in the last
three years combined, at all the various fairs. The weekend was a great success for our organization. We shared camaraderie with our fellow Em-erald Society members; show cased our Irish culture, Irish com-munity and our law enforcement community. It was a very posi-tive public relations experience with the community as a whole. Thank you to our volunteers, Mike Vela, Dennis and Erin Sullivan, Mark Guardado, Katie Bergman, Mike and Jean Head, Patrick Devine, Sean Magee, Paddy Eagan, Laura Patti, Michael Murphy, John McBride, Kristine Kiesling, Rene Escobedo, Sean Deaton, Ed Moscoso, John Garry, John Garry Sr., Jeff Litzinger, Ed O’Reilly,
Keith Mortensen, Tara Yeats, Erin Scott-Haines (McNulty School of Irish Dance), Ciaran Gallagher, and S. Megas. Thank you to our hosts Terry Ander-son and Griffin Healy. A special thank you, to past president, charter member, and founding member, Commander Bill Murphy for his assistance.
I attended Paddy Burke’s retirement party at the United Irish Cultural Center in San Francis-co. Paddy is a Cork, Ireland native. He was cofounder and past President of SFBALEES. He retired after pushing a black & white on the mean streets of San Francisco for 33 years. Past SFBALEES President’s and cofounders Val Kirwan (also a former CPOMF Board member), Mike Moran, and Joe McFadden were all on hand. San Francisco
Police Chief Gregory Suhr and SFPOA Presi-dent Marty Halloran were there. Emerald Society members from throughout Califor-nia attended. Representatives on behalf of Gerry Adams Sinn Fein’s were on hand. Irish Consul General Phil Grant and members representing AOH were all there. It was a who’s who of the Irish community on both sides of the ocean.
LAPES whiskey tasting & meeting was held in August at member owned Auld Dub-liner in Long Beach. Our host, owner David Copley went above and beyond
dishing out Irish hospitality. The meeting was very well attended. The whiskey tasting, even more so…
The 2014 Band fundraiser was a great success accord-ing to Michael Apodaca, President of LAPES P & D and Scott Walton former LAPES president and current Pipe major . I have attended this event since its inception 3 years ago. It improves each year. The LAPES board
bought a table to the event for the second year in a row. On a side note, the board responsibly took a limo to the event. On the way home the limo caught fire. Long night…
Membership News:
Bill Hallett is recovering from back surgery. Says he will be ready to march come St. Patrick’s Day.
Mrs. Marian Sullivan- O’Donnell (member), mother of LAPES members Patrick O’Donnell, Kate Wilson- O’Donnell & Dan O’Donnell, is home and recover-ing from her back surgery.
Paul Moran earned employee of the quarter on be-half of the Los Angeles County Probation Depart-ment’s Specialized Enforcement Operations. He is currently on loan to LAPD Hollenbeck Gang Unit.
Welcome Irish Consul General Philip Grant who has joined our ranks as a LAPES member. He is also a SFBALEES member.
Paddy Burke (SFPD, cofounder and past President of the San Fran-cisco Bay Are law Enforcement Emerald Society SFBALEES) has joined our ranks.
Welcome back Terry Casey (Fenians front man and AOH mem-
THE GARDA NEWS CELEBRATING 21 YEARS OF CAMARADERIE AND SERVICE
Los Angeles Police Emerald Society
August / September 2014 Editor - Dennis P. Sullivan
President - T. Keleher
ber). Terry was the first non-sworn (civilian), member allowed into LAPES. Back in the day, Terry and the Fenian’s played at our LAPES Pig Roast outside the Coliseum prior to the ND vs USC games. Man, did they play…
Brian Keranan (USMC) (right) newest corporate member: Bank of Manhattan Mortgage manager.
Matt Mulvihil (LAPES co-founder and past Presi-dent) retuned to the U. S. from his 22 month tour of Europe. We celebrated his birthday (Sept 1).
Don Mikami (OCSD) newest Lifetime member
Member Doug Haubert was reelected as Long Beach City Prosecutor.
Late Breaking Membership News
LBPD Officer Rich Mejia EOW 17 September 2014. It
is with great sadness that we report the death of
Long Beach Police Officer Rich Mejia who was tragi-
cally killed in a single car off duty accident. Although
not a LAPES member, many LAPES members worked with and
were friends of Officer Mejia who
was assigned to LBPD’s Port Security
Unit. Our thoughts and prays go out
to the Mejia family and the Long
Beach Police Department family.
LAPES October Meeting: Monday October 13, 2014. General
membership meeting 7PM. Board meeting 6PM. Meeting will be
held at member owned (Paul Hennessey)
H T Grill 1701 S. Catalina Av., Redondo Beach, CA.
Limited seating for meeting in great venue. PLEASE RSVP for
seating ONLY. A “debrief” will be held immediately following the
meeting in the restaurant/pub. The food is fantastic and happy
hour is 4pm-7PM. Come early for dinner. We will be finished by
halftime. October 13 MNF game is SF 49er’s vs St. Louis, Come on
