PAX Centurion - Summer 2014

www.bppa.org PAX CENTURION • Summer 2014 • Page 31 281 Neponset Ave. Dorchester 617-265-2665 Full Day Preschool – $37.00 Secure Play Area 4,000 sq. ft. 3 Classrooms 2 yrs. 8 mo to 6 yrs. Massachusetts Early Education License #291031 • Daughter of a BPPA Retiree Neponset Preschool www.NeponsetPreschool.com N o, not the Red Sox vs.Yankees, this was the Boston Police vs. the NewYork City Police ice hockey team. I still recall the headlines in the Boston Herald and the Boston Globe sports pages. It was in the early 1980s, I was a night detective inAreaA-l and my partner Detective Richie Ross came up with the idea that we should challenge the NewYork City Police ice hockey team to a game to benefit the Jimmy Fund here in Boston. We sent out invita- tions for tryouts within the Boston Police Department and we had over 40 guys show up to skate with us. We would skate two teams an “A” team and a “B” team. Elliott Feldman, who now heads up the PoliceAthletic League would coach the “A” team and retired Deputy Superintendent EddieWalsh would coach the ‘B” team. The president of the Boston Police Emerald Society, retired Detec- tive John McManus, who along with his partner the late detective Arnold James were both shot while responding to a bank holdup in Mattapan Square several years ago volunteered to sponsor the teams. He gave us two sets of emerald green Boston Police jerseys for both teams. Northeastern University rented the ice hockey arena on St. Botolph St. to us for the back-to-back games. Wow, I played four years of high school ice hockey there for the legendary coach Bill Stewart while attending English High School. It was on a Saturday night, and the “B” teams played first, Detec- tive Eddie Dominguez set up detective Kevin McGill for the first goal of the game. NewYork came back in the second period and scored their only goal. Our goalie, Jimmy Carnell was outstanding in the net for us. Kevin Buckley scored the winning goal for us late in the third period, off a nice set-up by Neil Murphy and we won 3 to 2. Sorry to report, but the “A” team who played after us lost to the NewYork City Police team. We all went out for a few beers after the game to TheArk on Beacon Street, outside of Kenmore Square. cept a myriad of BS assignments like the “Walk-Against-This” or the “Run-Against-That.” The summer will be full of City Hall Festivals, Caribbean days, assorted parades, road races, protests, etc., etc. The BPD expects that you should sacrifice your time with your family in deference to the good of the kind and beneficent City you work for. (Yes, the same City who sent us to arbitration for an expired contract of 3½ years and then fought us all the way through the City Council….) Make your decisions based on what is good for you and your family, not what is good for the City. A birthday for a child or a sum- mer family barbeque that you do not attend is lost forever, and you will not receive an award from the City for foregoing it. It is unlikely that discretionary days, C-days or other days owed will be granted during the summer, as the department has already indicated. Enjoy your own summer vacations, and remember who is important – you and your family. Shorthanded patrol force prepares for long summer… From Shorthanded on page 10 Eire Pub 795 Adams Street Dorchester, MA 02124 Salutes the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association