
Westminster Police Department’s Fallen Heroes Memorial located outside the police department in the Westminster Courtyard in this 2017 photo.
File photo by Steven Georges/Behind the Badge
Westminster’s annual police memorial ride rescheduled to July
0A global pandemic has delayed Westminster Police Department’s memorial ride, but couldn’t shut it down. The annual 630-mile cycling trip in memory of fallen officers was originally planned for the third weekend of May, but has been rescheduled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Quick work has put the ride back on course, hot weather or no, July 12 to 15. “We waited as long as we could,” says ride coordinator Sgt. Bill Drinnin of the attempt to keep the event on schedule, but stay-at-home orders and public health concerns simply made the original dates impossible. Drinnin then asked the group…