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Condolences and Updates

Condolences and Updates

Please join me in offering condolences to the Handler Family and Friends, who held a Celebration of Life for Rich Handler on October 12th. Rich passed earlier in June, and was the middle son of of longtime member Roy Handler (CPD) who passed in 2015. The Handler...

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Condolences and Updates

Fall 2024 newsletter

Time flies when you’re having fun, and the past several months offered fun to those who attended our Association events so far this year. In May we participated in the Chicago FOP Ethnic Meeting, bringing out several tasty food items for our Law Enforcement Ethnic...

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Condolences and Updates

Spring 2024 Newsletter

Greetings, In a recap of the 2023 year, it was a year of sor- rows and joy for the Ger- man American Police As- sociation. Several of our families personally experi- enced loss of loved ones, or endured medical or finan- cial difficulties. Our Associ- ation was no...

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Timothy O. Schaefer

Timothy O. Schaefer

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of longtime member and our President of the German American Police Association, Tim Schaefer. Please keep Tim’s family and friends in your thoughts and prayers during this time.

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Spring 2023 Newsletter

Spring 2023 Newsletter

Guten Tag! Wow, what year so far. To think we are in April already. 2023 is starting to fly by but we are trying to stay ahead of things: your officers and board members are all working hard to plan upcoming events. The first item that GAPA will be participating in is...

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Winter 2023 Newsleter

Winter 2023 Newsleter

President’s Message Guten Tag and Frohes Neues Jahr (Happy New Year) Starting out I would like to give you an update on our Trip to Milwaukee for the Cubs vs Brewers game. I’m sure by now you have heard that our trip was unsuccessful. The Cubs blew it and we had to...

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Spring 2023 Newsletter

Fall 2022 Newsletter

President’s Message Guten tag! I hope everyone is enjoying their summertime with their family and friends. The Board and Officers have been hard at work keeping GAPA current during these summer months. Once again a big thank you to Rita Geoghegan (I spelt her last...

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Spring 2023 Newsletter

SUMMER 2022 NEWSLETTER

President’s Message Guten Tag! Welcome to summer and some interesting weather. I hope everyone is enjoying themselves. As I looked back over the last six months and my last article, I realized how many things I left out of it. First, many thanks to Rita Gehagen for...

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