Deen & Tate End of Watch Memorial Ride

5619 Highway 42,Hattiesburg MS 39401

01 October, 2022

Description

Join us at Chain Park, for 55-mile police escorted scenic (Motorcycle & Jeep) ride through Forrest and Lamar Counties, which will encompass the Deen & Tate memorial site, as well as the Benjamin J. Deen Memorial Highway, and ending at Paul B. Johnson State Park for lunch. The proceeds from the event with be split between the Hattiesburg Police Department Benefit Fund, as well as The Greater PineBelt Community Foundation’s Benjamin J. Deen & Liquori Tate Memorial Scholarship Fund The Greater PineBelt Community Foundation (PineBelt Foundation), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, was formed as a charitable organization to receive gifts to support non-profit organizations or charitable causes in the Pine Belt. The organization was formed in 1997 by local civic leaders, and is governed by a strong Board of Directors. It is one of 750 community foundations in the United States today. The PineBelt Foundation accepts a wide variety of gifts, including: cash, stocks, life insurance, property, and bequests – all providing donors’ great flexibility and maximum tax benefits. Giving back to those that sacrificed: The Benjamin J. Deen & Liquori Tate Memorial Scholarship Fund was established to provide scholarships to full-time sworn Pine Belt law enforcement officers and their family members in cases where the officer is killed in the line of duty or sustains a career-ending permanent injury in the line of duty or while acting in an official capacity as substantiated by the appropriate investigating agency responsible for clearing the incident. Eligible family members include the officer’s or non-sworn employee’s spouse, children, step-children, other legal dependents of the officer at the time of injury. Recipients must reside in the Pine Belt area and be a full-time or part-time student at any community college, college, university, vocational school or police academy.