Remembering families of heroes at the holidays

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Jimmy Binns with John Pawlowski’s widow, Kim, and family.
JImmy Binns with the families of 24th District Sgt. Timothy Simpson and 15th District community relations officer Gary Skerski.
Jimmy Binns with family members of Pennsylvania State Trooper Branden Sisca and Temple University Police Sgt. Christopher Fitzgerald.
Jimmy Binns with IBEW Local 98 business manager Mark Lynch and members.

Jimmy Binns, president and CEO of Holiday Meals for Heroes, welcomed families of local police officers who are disabled or were wounded or died in the line of duty to a pre-Thanksgiving breakfast at Sunnybrook Golf Club in Plymouth Meeting.

The families also took home Thanksgiving dinners.

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The Nov. 27 event was sponsored by International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98, headed by Mark Lynch. The program furnishes breakfast and dinner meals to several officers who’ve survived their injuries and area families of fallen police officers at Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.

Families of local fallen officers who were in attendance were Chuck Cassidy, Timothy Simpson, James O’Connor, Walter DeWitt, Isabel Nazario, Brian Lorenzo, Gary Skerski, Patrick McDonald, John Pawlowski and Christopher Fitzgerald.

Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel was among those on hand.

The next breakfast will be on Friday, Dec. 20. ••

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