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NAMI Benefit Honoring Superintendent Cline - Thursday, Feb 24th

Dear Fellow C.P.D. / C.I.T. members-

Please check your social calendars- I just received word from Sgt. Bill Lange that on next Thursday evening, February 24th- our Superintendent Phil Cline is scheduled to be honored by N.A.M.I. of Greater Chicagoland as their Man of the Year (for his commitment to helping make possible our fine Crisis Intervention Team training sessions last year.) It's taking place at the Renaissance Hotel Chicago- One West Wacker Drive (at State Street.)

As this is a fund-raising benefit/dinner celebrating the 26th Anniversary of NAMI's Greater Chicagoland chapter- the normal price of tickets for the event is $135 dollars per person for the general public- but as C.I.T. trained C.P.D. Officers we are being offered the generous discounted rate of only $75 dollars to attend (I know, I know- we as coppers probably feel we should be getting "comped" AND be right behind the Super in the award line... ;-> ...just joking!)

But seriously- the money goes to a great cause and I'm sure the food and ambience and networking potential are far and away worth the price of admission! There is going to be a live, silent auction as well to benefit NAMI- sounds very interesting!

NAMI-gc's Suzanne Andriukaitis (the generous volunteer from our training sessions) was nice enough to confirm the details (below.) Her e-mail noted that it should be okay to pay at the door but that we should call their office at (312) 563-0445 to let them know of your intention to attend and to identify yourself as a CIT officer (she also noted that we contact them ASAP as the event is quite close to taking place.) I am not sure of the attire required but would assume that pretty spiffy would be the safest bet.

I hope you can find time in your busy schedules to attend this worthwhile event- and I hope the New Year finds you in good health and spirits! (I'm just getting over a terrible flu!)

Sincerely-

Officer Timothy O'Grady - 023

The Agents of 007 !

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They're HERE! Click to see all our CPD C.I.T. Class 2 Graduation Pix (so ably snapped by Suzanne Andriukaitis of N.A.M.I.)

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Ho Ho Ho!!! Santa and his Elves aren't taking any cr@p this Xmas! ;-)

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Happy Holidays to ALL C.I.T. Folks! ;-)

Who's Watching the Watchman? ? ?

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Moving the Haymarket Memorial Statue back to it's original site on Randolph by the Expressway was a BLAST guys! - I wonder if they've noticed yet...? ;->
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023's First Batch of Trainees...

(from memory- in no particular order... probably forgetting several folks! Let me know!)

Don Zalinski (who brought me into all of this!)
Bob Lottman
Trina Thomas
Steve Viggiano
Paul Lauber

Questions, Questions, Ideas, Suggestions...

04 December 04

Hello Folks-

A Couple -Three Questions for Jeff & Shelley & Suzanne... (and whomever else has some tips and clues!)

Do you folks (or anyone) have the list of the officers who attended the first training class (so that I may add them to our web log ( http://citt.blogspot.com/ )... and then maybe I can send a request via department mail to get the e-mails from those folks from the 007 half of the first class so that they might join the e-mail portion of the group at CITT@GoogleGroups.Com ...

Also- have those swell pictures Suzanne and that woman whose name escapes me who was wielding that pro-digi-camera "get developed" yet??? ;-) I would be happy to make a meet with somebody/anyone to pick up some digital versions and post them up on the web for all to proudly gawk at... ;-)

- Tim O'Grady (Class Clown of the 2nd class! ;-> ) writing...
SHADIGRADI@MAC.COM / TIMOTHY.OGRADY@CHICAGOPOLICE,ORG

P.S. -Also... (half-joking) GET SOME BETTER or DIFFERENT CHAIRS in the North Atrium! :-) (My back has been a bit out of whack ever since you guys blew our minds!) ;-)

P.S.II - Please call DATA Systems at (312-74)4-D-A-T-A if you dont already have a department web mail address... it's quick and painless and works quite well- it should only take a day for them to set you up during the week and you will be that much ahead of the game when the department starts giving us jobs to pick up via e-mail at home as more and more of our spots are outsourced across different oceans and we pilot the remaining hover-cars via remote cameras in our Blue pajamas at home in BED! ;-)

Congratulations to C.P.D. C.I.T. Class TWO ! ;-)

What a great week- hope this is just about everyone!


(in the order on the e-mail sheet...)

Phil Crosby
Brian Humphrey
Roger Terry
Pete Bella
Lt. Karl Schmitt
Margaret Murphy
Kim Hinkle
Mark Thompson
Danielle Kappel
Andria Randolph
Marlene Rivera
Luther Haynes
Kevin Paruszkiewicz
Alicia Troman
William Erickson
Dawn Greenwood
David DeMato
Jose Pedraza
Al O’Connor
Tim O’Grady
Frances Escovedo
Ron Gutkowski

and... last (but not least...)

Lt Jeff Murphy
Sgt Bill Lange
Shelley Daunis
Suzanne Andriukaitis
Catherine Grochowski
Bruce Handler

(Please e-mail me at SHADIGRADI@MAC.COM or CITT@GoogleGroups.Com if you would like to be added to this definitely unofficial listing!)

Thanks to all for the great week of training- good luck in the field- remember: safety first! ;-)

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