In 1981, a Sergeant Carl Swartz was overseeing the Feed of Family program for the University Campus Police Department. The university collected food for approximately ten families every Thanksgiving and Christmas. Starting in 1983, Officer Kemper took over the program. The Fraternal Order of Police Lodge is active in community service within the Rosedale community. Since 1986 the feed of a family program has operated under the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #37 (Chaplain Kemper) in partnership with the University Police Department and the Rosedale community.

The feed a family program is one of the most well-known community service projects in Rosedale. It has grown tremendously since it’s beginning. Since partnering with the Rosedale Development Association (Director, Mrs. Wendy Wilson) in the year 2000. The feed a family program has now gained several partners such as the Harvester’s food network, Churches in Rosedale and citizens who donate perishable and nonperishable items.

The feed a family program is now rotated. One year we will host Thanksgiving. The next year, we will host Christmas. We work to find needy families in partnership with the Rosedale Development Association, churches and schools on the average we feed 150 people, some 26 families in all per year. In 1997 26 letters of thanks, were received back to the lodge secretary, (Brent Baker) thanking the lodge and the police department for our assistance.

Since 2001 this program is now called the Rosedale Community Feed a Family program. The lodge is always looking for ways to help the citizens of Rosedale, and this wonderful project is just one way in which we lend hand in the community in which we work and live.