Melrose Police Chief Helps Raise $36,000 for Jimmy Fund

Photo Credit: Melrose Police

The Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association Foundation recently raised $36,000 for the Jimmy Fund following the completion of the 26th annual Ralph Lepore Jimmy Fund Golf Tournament.

Members of the foundation raised an additional $4,000 over last year’s total of $32,162. The tournament was held on Aug. 10 at Pleasant Valley Country Club in Sutton.

“It has been another successful year for golfers at the tournament, who took time out of their busy schedules to support the Jimmy Fund,” said Melrose Police Chief Michael Lyle, who has organized the tournament for the past two years. “We certainly appreciate all of the contributions, which go to support an extremely worthy organization.”

The Jimmy Fund is the primary charitable organization of the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association Foundation, where 100 percent of the proceeds are donated to the fund annually.

The following organizations sponsored the event:

Premiere Platinum Sponsors ($10,000) — MHQ
Double Platinum Sponsor ($5,000) — National Grid
Platinum Sponsor ($2,500) — Bartlett Consolidated, DataVis, Galaxy Integrated Technologies and PhRMA
Gold Sponsors ($1,000) — The Central Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association
Silver Sponsors ($500) — 24 Trauma, Commonwealth Financial Network /James Taylor Homefield Credit Union, The Savings Bank, TransCOR, Wegmans and Federal Signal / Rich Snyder

As well as the $100 Tee and Green Sponsors:

• Bay State Strategies Group, LLC

• John Guilfoil Public Relations, LLC

• Village Vault

• W.B. Hunt Co.

• Municipal Police Institute, Inc.

• Jurek Brothers, Inc.