{"id":175898,"date":"2024-02-16T04:57:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T09:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=175898"},"modified":"2024-02-17T00:07:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T05:07:13","slug":"fop-lodge-62-enjoys-successful-dinner-and-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/02\/16\/fop-lodge-62-enjoys-successful-dinner-and-fundraiser\/","title":{"rendered":"FOP Lodge 62 holds dinner and fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a sellout event and by all accounts, it was a very successful night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert FOP (Fraternal Order of Police) Lodge 62 held its annual police community dinner and auction fundraiser at Willow Bend Country Club last Saturday. 175 tickets were available and all 175 were sold. The night featured wine, beer and bourbon tasting, a buffet meal, silent and live auctions for an assortment of items, along with various drawings and raffles. A special drawing was held to honor active and retired military members, plus a separate special drawing for active and retired law enforcement personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was a full house at Willow Bend Country Club for the Van Wert Lodge FOP Chapter 62 dinner and fundraiser. Photo submitted<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

According to Van Wert Police Department Lt. Steven Boroff, who serves as an FOP Chapter 62 trustee, preliminary figures show this year\u2019s event raised just over $22,000 through the auctions and raffles. He also said it was a bit different than previous years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe decided we were going to move it in a different direction and try to make it more family-oriented and try to get the associate members there and open it up to the general public,\u201d Boroff explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boroff also praised the staff at Willow Bend for making the night a big success, dozens of businesses and individuals that made donations, along with the members and spouses who volunteered their time to coordinate and work the event. He also noted that funds raised from that night will be distributed to various charities and organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe decide on this during our monthly board meetings,\u201d Boroff said. \u201cThe president, vice-president, trustees and the rest of the officers meet once a month to discuss plans for future events, how we want to donate the money, what\u2019s going on the community that we can donate money toward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He cited the Van Wert 4H Club\u2019s annual light show at the fairgrounds and the Van Wert County Sheriff\u2019s Office\u2019s \u201cChristmas With Kids\u201d program as just a couple of examples for previous donations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Like many organizations, businesses and families, COVID-19 hit Lodge 62 hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMembership started to decline and we couldn\u2019t get out and get things done, so we want to make the F.O.P. Lodge 62 here in Van Wert an organization that\u2019s thought of when charitable events are going on and when things are going on in the community,\u201d Boroff said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A membership drive began last summer and Boroff said the organization has taken on a lot of members, including returning members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Fraternal Order of Police is an organization made up of active and retired law enforcement officers, sheriff\u2019s deputies, probation officers, judges and prosecutors. The organization also has associate members who are voted on by FOP members and they include local business owners, spouses or family members of the FOP and others. Anyone can apply to be an associate member if they\u2019re not active law enforcement personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey can reach out to me or any of our members or associate members to get membership paperwork, or they can check out Facebook page (Van Wert FOP Lodge 62) for contact information or to leave a message.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor It was a sellout event and by all accounts, it was a very successful night. Van Wert FOP (Fraternal Order of Police) Lodge 62 held its annual police community dinner and auction fundraiser at Willow Bend Country Club last Saturday. 175 tickets were available and all 175 were sold. The night featured […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 01:21:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175898"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175965,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175898\/revisions\/175965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}