The late Wadena Police Officer Pete Resch will be honored as part of a memorial service and candlelight vigil in Washington, D.C., during National Police Week 2006.
On Monday is the National Peace Officers Memorial Service on the west lawn of the United States Capitol, sponsored by the Fraternal Order of Police Grand Lodge and Auxiliary. Also, an annual candlelight vigil will be at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial At the vigil, officers added to the memorial wall will be named in a roll call.
Resch, 47, died of a heart attack while responding to a domestic abuse call on May 19, 2005. He was a 15-year veteran with the Wadena Police Department. Among his duties, he taught Drug Abuse Resistance Education to hundreds of Wadena-Deer Creek students over the years.
A Police Unity Tour will raise money for the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. Special Agent Lynn Gannon of St. Paul is riding on behalf of Resch. The 250-mile bicycle tour is from Chesapeake, Va., to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C. Bikers will arrive Friday at the memorial.
Reschs widow, Donna, will go to Washington, D.C., to attend the memorial service and other events. Pete Reschs daughter Genna and Donna Reschs son Shane Skarka also will go to Washington, D.C.
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Drug Abuse Resistance Education and the Resch family are giving two scholarships this year that will be given at the Wadena-Deer Creek High School awards banquet.
