Showing posts with label pirelli. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pirelli. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

On this Date: Feb 20, 2008 - Pirelli Arena dedicated

We shared the news on this date in Feb 2008:
"At 8:18 p.m., all the shouting, banging and stomping at Veterans Memorial Skating Rink halted. 
Young men in blue and white uniforms skating in circles and slamming pucks at their goal lined up, facing their opposition in silence. For a few brief moments, only the sound of bagpipes honoring fallen soldier Robert Ryan Pirelli could be heard. 
Following Gov. Deval Patrick's approval Friday, the town renamed the arena last night at the final Panthers home game of the season in memory of Staff Sgt. Pirelli, a former Panther hockey player who was killed by enemy fire in Iraq last year."

From the archives on this day, 2/20/2008
https://www.franklinmatters.org/2008/02/pirelli-rink.html

Sgt Pirelli is also in the recognized in the archives in 2009 when the Iraq/Afghanistan monument is dedicated with his name inscribed



https://www.franklinmatters.org/2009/05/fm-40-memorial-day-2009.html



Sunday, April 10, 2016

In the News: HMEA incredABLE day - MAy 22, Barbara Anderson passes on, Pirelli Arena skating schedule for April

From the Milford Daily News, articles of interest for Franklin

HMEA Inc., a nonprofit organization that serves children and adults with special needs, will hold its family event and fundraiser of the year, the incredABLE Walk, Run and All-Day Family Fun, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 22 at EMC2 Headquarters, 50 Constitution Blvd. 
The day will include a 5K walk, a kids’ fun run and a 5K run. Music, food and activities for families will await at the finish line. The event will be hosted by Gene Lavanchy from Fox 25 News and Steve Nelson, a New England Patriots linebacker. 
For information: hmea.org/incredable.
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http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/20160409/hmea-to-hold-incredable-day-events




Barbara C. Anderson, a champion of Proposition 2½ tax limits, died Friday after battling leukemia for several months. 
Her death was announced by Citizens for Limited Taxation. 
Anderson was one of the leaders of the campaign for property tax relief. She also led campaigns for the repeal of state income tax surtax, defeat of the graduated income tax ballot question and the rollback of the “temporary” state income tax increase.

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http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/20160409/tax-fighter-barbara-anderson-dies


Pirelli Veteran’s Arena, 910 Panther Way, will be open for public skating at the following times during April vacation.
  • April 16: from 2:30 to 4:20 p.m.
  • April 17: from 2 to 3:50 p.m.
  • April 18-21: from 12:30 to 2:20 p.m.
  • April 22: from 12:30 to 2:20 p.m.; 8 to 9:50 p.m.
  • April 23: from 2:30 to 4:20 p.m.
  • April 24: from 2 to 3:40 p.m.
Admission costs $5, and rental skates are available for $5 on a first-come, first-served basis. For a list of all the updated daily public skating locations and times, visit fmcicesports.com/public-skating.

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http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/20160409/pirelli-veterans-arena-lists-april-vacation-public-skating-times

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Sunday, September 14, 2008

In the News: defibrillators, Pirelli Scholarship, Back to Business

Since Franklin, which has five AEDs, began sending them out in every car during a shift several years ago, they've become an important staple, said Chief Stephen Williams.

"We have had to use them, and we have had saves," he said. "If we're there a minute or two before emergency services, minutes count for a person having a heart attack."

Read the full article about local police departments and their defibrillator inventory in the Milford Daily News here

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Staff Sgt. Pirelli, 29, was killed in a gun battle on Aug. 15, 2007 in Diyala Province while serving a tour in Iraq with the Army Special Forces. The Green Beret had been a goalie for the Franklin High School Panthers hockey team.

"My main job for the rest of my life is to keep his name alive,'' Pirelli said.
One of the ways he will do that, with the help of family and friends, is through establishing a perpetual scholarship for Franklin High School graduates.

To raise money for the first set of scholarships, which the Pirellis plan to hand out in 2010, they are holding a comedy night (for ages 21+) on Sept. 27 at the Doubletree Hotel in Milford (formerly the Milford Sheraton), at 7 p.m.


"We're really putting on a Las Vegas-quality show in Milford. There are headliners, Johnny Pizzi, who is in Vegas right now, Paul Gilligan, Tony Vee, Paul D'Angelo,'' Alberts said.
Read the full article about the Pirelli Scholarship fundraiser in the Milford Daily News here.

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A "super mom'' was sitting with her, talking about how she had just sent her child to college and needed to find a job, but felt she had nothing to offer, Waters recalled.

"I thought she had it all together. She sat in front of me and started crying, and told me nobody would talk to her,'' Waters said.


The woman had spent a lot of time volunteering and was active in the community, but didn't think potential employers would value that experience, she explained.

So Waters used her corporate vocabulary and applied it to her resume, showing her she had many transferable skills.

"She started to sit up straight and became confident she was worth something out there,'' Waters said.


That woman, in turn, inspired Waters to start Back to Business, instead of one of the other dozen or so ideas she was kicking around, she said.


She spent the next year and a half researching, interviewing human resource managers, recruiters, and other hiring entities to learn what they wanted in employees.


"They're not against moms returning to the workforce, or people making a job transition. They just want to see transferable skills, computer skills, and they want the candidate to be clear about what they want,'' she said.


Waters realized she could bridge the gap and clear up misperceptions, she said.

Unable to find a good alternative to their situation, many women do nothing and simply continue feeling stuck, she said.

"We un-stick these fabulous women,'' Waters said.

"Confidence is the biggest thing missing,'' she said, adding that hiring managers do comment about applicants needing to have more of it.
Read more about getting women Back to Business in the Milford Daily News here.

Monday, August 18, 2008

in the News - Center Commons, Sgt Pirelli

Franklin Center Commons moves forward

By Joyce Kelly/Daily News staff

Developer John Marini isn't letting today's economy drag down his part of Franklin's $28 million downtown revitalization project.

"He's got a large amount of his own personal money involved in this," said Eileen Mason, a sales agent with Costello Realty representing the Marini property.

When Marini finished constructing the first of four buildings at 9 Summer St., last May, financial advisers, consultants, and a pain management company, among others, moved quickly to rent the professional offices on the second and third floors. Mason said retailers like Pretty is Pink and ARTBEAT moved in at the street level.

"It did not take long to fill out that professional office space," Mason said, noting the dual draw of the commuter rail and the high traffic. Every day, 22,000 cars travel downtown, she said.



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Pirelli scholarship fundraiser to be held in September

By Joyce Kelly/Daily News staff


Just like his "old man," Staff Sgt. Robert Ryan Pirelli loved kids, recalled his father, Robert Pirelli, a long-time TV announcer for Franklin Youth Hockey, coach and ice cream man.

While serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Pirelli played football and baseball with Iraqi kids, Robert Pirelli said, remembering with amusement how his son gave the children baseball mitts, but they didn't understand they were for catching the ball.

"He threw the ball to one kid, and the kid didn't use the glove, it just hit his chest," he said, so Pirelli taught them all what the glove was for and other baseball basics.

"He just loved working with kids over there. He saw the appreciation they had," Pirelli said. One child's mother made a bracelet and sent it to Rob's sister, Stacey, to thank him, his father said.



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Father reflects on fallen Green Beret

By Joyce Kelly/Daily News staff


For Robert Pirelli, the memories come one after the other, as time seems to collapse into vignettes of the moments he shared with his son, Staff Sgt. Robert Ryan Pirelli.

Rob's post office tree-house he ran with his brother, Shawn, and sister, "Postmaster Stacey," inspired by their father, a postal worker.

Rob on the ice, "accidentally" blasting a puck at the glass protecting the Franklin Youth Hockey commentator - his dad.

One of the first father and son bonding moments: little Rob walking out of the house, looking at his dad's ice cream truck and back at his dad, realizing, "My dad's the ice cream man!" Robert Pirelli remembers, breaking into a smile.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Pirelli Rink

"At 8:18 p.m., all the shouting, banging and stomping at Veterans Memorial Skating Rink halted.
Young men in blue and white uniforms skating in circles and slamming pucks at their goal lined up, facing their opposition in silence. For a few brief moments, only the sound of bagpipes honoring fallen soldier Robert Ryan Pirelli could be heard. 
Following Gov. Deval Patrick's approval Friday, the town renamed the arena last night at the final Panthers home game of the season in memory of Staff Sgt. Pirelli, a former Panther hockey player who was killed by enemy fire in Iraq last year."
Read the full article in the Milford Daily News.(subscription maybe required)