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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

07/22/08 Greenwich Time News Links For Tuesday -


Left to right, town highway employees Barbara Mescall, Skip Azud and Terry Pieczko with a care package that they are sending to fellow employee Peter Kurpeawski who is an officer in the Army Reserve in Iraq.
(Bob Luckey Jr./Greenwich Time photo)

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Peter Kurpeawski's co-workers have sent about six care packages since he left for Iraq in May


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"He's a good, good friend. He would do anything for you," said Terry Pieczko, an administrative assistant in the highway division.


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To Iraq, with love


When one of their own departed for his second tour with the U.S. Army Reserve in Iraq earlier this year, public works employees didn't have to think too hard of what to include in a care package for Peter Kurpeawski.

"We all know he loves raisins," said Skip Azud, who works with Kurpeawski and is the town's high operations manager. "He's always got a box of raisins in his pockets." ....

....While they rarely get telephone calls from Kurpeawski because of the 7-hour time difference, they do get e-mails from their friend and co-worker.

"He lets us know that he's OK," Pieczko said.


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Town's new plan of conservation and development available

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Myrna's bistro comes to Greenwich

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Too darn hot for heavy duty stuff. So pop up your parasol, fetch an iced-tea and chill out. Read along at your own pace and nibble from this cold hors d'oeuvre platter: For the troops Here's a bit of postal history for you.

Re-establishing agency for seniors

It's welcome news for Connecticut's graying population that Gov. M. Jodi Rell has decided to re-establish the state Department of Aging as a full-fledged agency starting next July.

To the editor:

I viewed a news report on the kids in your town. It is sad to see that the neighbors put the kids down for building their own Wiffle ball park to keep themselves out of trouble.

I come from a town that sees violent crime every day. In fact, just recently at a local festival, there was a shooting of a 19-year-old boy. I say boy because at 19 he has not even started life yet. Kids in gang colors walk the streets. A kid shot a detective just last year.

Your town should look at what it has. I am sure some residents built tree houses, forts, etc,. when they were little, were proud of them and didn't have them knocked down. What is this world coming to?

The average age of the kids I saw in the report was the age kids start smoking (not just tobacco), fighting and being unruly; when they start roaming the streets and breaking laws. It will happen when they get bored. What will your town think then?

Many kids nowadays don't care, and your town should be proud of the kids who do care, and want to keep themselves off the streets and walking the straight and narrow.

Let kids be kids!

Jennifer Kimura

Toledo, Ohio

Please see:

07/22/08 Police Chief David Ridberg said that disciplinary charges and possible criminal charges may be filed if a Greenwich Police Officer is involved in leaking whiffle baller's juvenile court record

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