THE 200 CLUB OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE by Cindy Reid | Photography by the 200 Club
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ithout the brave men and that quietly shoulders a tremendous together to help, it was given the name women who risk their lives for responsibility to the families of first “100 Club.” our sake, our lives would be very responders who have lost their life in the Following their example, more than 120 different. That’s why when tragedy strikes, line of duty. clubs with the same mission to support the 200 Club (a 501 (c)(3) surviving families formed organization) immediately throughout the country. responds with financial The 200 Club of the The 200 Club is a powerful force for good, support to help lessen the Coastal Empire was devastating effects. founded to honor police a force that quietly shoulders a tremendous As an organization, officer Christopher responsibility to the families of first responders the 200 Club of the Argentinis, who gave his life Coastal Empire proudly while protecting others. who have lost their life in the line of duty and honorably provides On December 11, 1999, significant financial 36-year-old officer Argentinis assistance, as well as fully said goodbye to his family paid college education to the surviving and reported for duty with the Wareham From the Ashes of Grief, Hope Rises spouse and children of law enforcement Police Department in Massachusetts. It started in 1952 when businessmen officers and firefighters who lose their He would never return home. in Detroit Michigan banded together to lives in the line of duty while protecting Struck by a car while in a foot chase with financially assist the pregnant widow of our communities. a wanted drug offender, Chris succumbed a young police officer who was fatally In our community, the 200 Club to head injuries two days later, leaving a shot while serving an arrest warrant to a is a powerful force for good, a force wife and two young sons, ages 6 and 4. felon. Because one hundred people came
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