Gov. Josh Shapiro attended the annual FOP Lodge 5 Survivors Holiday Breakfast.
Families of fallen heroes were served breakfast and given chocolate, a Stock’s pound cake, an FOP blanket and poinsettias at the Dec. 4 event.
Others on hand included FOP Lodge 5 President Roosevelt Poplar and Deputy Police Commissioner John Stanford.
“We have to be here for each other,” Poplar said.
The Rev. Jim MacNew, the FOP chaplain, offered a prayer.
Among those attending were the families of local officers Henry Berry, Chuck Cassidy, James O’Connor, Patrick McDonald, Gary Skerski, Thomas Trench, John Pawlowski, John Trettin, Stephen Dmytryk, Robert Hayes, Stephen Liczbinski, Brian Lorenzo, Isabel Nazario, Albert Valentino and Christopher Fitzgerald.
“May their memories forever be a blessing,” Shapiro said. ••
