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Blue Knights Are No Outlaw Motorcycle Club

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: May 12, 2008

PLANT CITY - If you thought there were a lot of motorcycles around town recently, it wasn't just your imagination.

About 150 active and retired law enforcement officers who like to ride were in Plant City recently for a regional gathering of the Blue Knights motorcycle club.

The Southern Regional 2008 Spring Conference was hosted by the Tampa chapter, although most of the activities were in Plant City.

Dennis Deppert, the conference organizing chairman for the Florida Chapter XVII in Tampa, said the conference was successful.

Deppert said 60 volunteers from his chapter helped with the conference, which included a banquet at the host hotel, Red Rose Inn and Suites, a fish fry at Edward Medard Park and a visit to the monthly Bike Fest in downtown Plant City.

The Blue Knights club was founded in 1974 in Bangor, Maine, Deppert said. The nonprofit international organization is made up of active and retired law enforcement officers who "enjoy riding motorcycles," he said.

George H. Newman

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