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.
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. ••
