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BFIT Trophy Presentation

On June 19, 2018, members of the Police team name, was presented to the MSP
Department were recognized for their fundraising team for being the top fundraiser in the First
efforts in the second annual First Responder Responder Challenge, a fitness competition held
Challenge. For the second year in a row, the MSP earlier this year at TD Garden and presented by
Team was presented with the First Responder National Grid. The MSP team raised over $23,000.
“Stanley Cup” trophy during a deck hockey game
with a local elementary school. In addition to raising money for the 100
Club, the First Responder Challenge is meant
Former Boston Bruin Bob Sweeney, now to raise awareness of health and wellness. To
the executive director of the Boston Bruins that end, the Bruins Foundation donated deck
hockey equipment to the Gibbons school as a
way to encourage students to be active. The gear
was broken in that day, as members of the MSP,
Stoughton
Police, and
students
suited up for
a friendly, yet
competitive,
hockey game.
Students,
teachers, and
Bob Sweeney talking to students about health and troopers alike
wellness all had a great
Foundation, and foundation Director of Health, time and, of
Fitness, and Wellness, John Whitesides were course, no
joined by representatives from National Grid and respectable
the 100 Club of Massachusetts at the Gibbons hockey game
School in Stoughton for the trophy presentation. would be
The trophy, etched with the Massachusetts State complete Assault and Battery on a Police Of-
without ficer! Bob Sweeney “roughing up”
Blades, the Trooper John Fanning.
Bruins’ mascot,
joining in on the fun!

We would like to thank the Boston
Bruins Foundation and National Grid for making
this fundraising opportunity possible. We are
particularly proud of those members of the
Department who personally gave of their time
and effort to raise money for a cause that is
certainly near and dear to all of our hearts. We
would also like to thank all of the first responder
teams who participated in this fundraising

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