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Fraternal Order of Police

                    BlueNote

                    Official Publication of the North Carolina State Lodge

Volume 3, Issue 30  www.ncfop.org                            November/December 2017

This November/December issue of the BlueNote is dedicated to the memory                        Inside This Issue
    of Donald E. Carpenter of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Lodge 8.                        Chaplain’s Corner 3

A Great Loss!                                                                                  Directory             3

   By Barry Westmoreland – President Lodge 8                                                   Greetings from    5
                                                                                               Immediate Past
   On Wednesday, August 2, 2017, the                                                           President
Law Enforcement Community and Pro-
fession, the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Of-                                                      Message from
fice, the NCFOP Lodge 8, and his family
and many friends, suffered a very great                                                        President, Randy
loss. Our Lodge Sergeant at Arms and
friend, Donald E. Carpenter, passed                                                            Hagler            9
away. Don had been losing weight and
suffering from an undetermined health is-                                                      Grand Lodge       11
sue for the past few years. As his health                                                      Update
declined, so did his strength and freedom
of movement. Last summer he began us-                                                          BlueNote Information
ing a walker for mobility and then as the strength in his legs continued to fail, progressed
to using a wheelchair. Finally, earlier this year doctors diagnosed Don with Gullain-Barre’    and Submission
Syndrome, a disease that causes the nerves of the body to attack themselves and basically
eat the cover and core of the nerves away.                                                     Deadlines         17

   Don was hospitalized and began rounds of Immunoglobulin treatments which at first           Legislature Out to
seemed to be working. Sadly, these treatments stopped working and he underwent plasma          Really “Reform” Our
transfers which also failed to provide any relief or help for Don. After many weeks in the
hospital, in a Nursing/Rehabilitation center for physical therapy, Don returned home for       Courts            19
in-home health care and Hospice Care. During the past few weeks Don had good days
and bad, sometimes he recognized visitors and sometimes he didn’t and much of the time         Kevin Tully V.
between visitors he was sleeping. When he was awake and alert, Don still enjoyed a good        The City of
joke and would talk about old times in the FOP and the Sheriff’s Office. Don’s spirits got     Wilmington 21
low at times, but his stubbornness kept him fighting until the end. On Wednesday, August
2nd, Don’s fight with the illnesses ended and he moved to his new eternal address.             “Not-So-Final”

   Don had a long career in Law Enforcement, beginning when he was hired by Sheriff            Legislative
Ernie Shore in 1968. At the time he was already employed at Western Electric and was
doing ride-a-longs with another Forsyth County Sheriff Department officer. When Sheriff        Report            27
Shore called and offered him the job, Don told the Sheriff that he would have to work out
a notice at Western Electric. Sheriff Shore replied that “You don’t have to give them any-     Trivia!           43
thing. If you want the job, be here tomorrow.” After serving for several years as a Patrol
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