Agent Michael Pelligrino, center, Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office, talks with Trenton military officers. (Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)
Many towns opposite a nation reason small, spontaneous “Coffee with a Cop” events, though in Trenton it’s big.
Freddie and Rosa Rosado, owners of a McDonald’s in a city where they were both innate and raised, are all about a internal community. So they customarily fill a seats in their restaurant, located opposite a travel from Trenton Central High School, with initial responders and their friends and families for a display of their Coffee with a Cop Community Service Awards.
The Rosados also combined a Detective Pablo Santiago Memorial Award, named for a Mercer County Sheriff’s Officer who took his possess life on Dec 26, 2018. Remembering Santiago ( a former village use endowment winner) in her remarks, Rosa Rosado pronounced “He was a chairman who was all about giving behind to a community. A sum purpose model. The clarification of village use is his name.”
Mercer County Agent Michael Pelligrino, center, was presented a Detective Pablo Santiago Memorial Award. (Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)
Mercer County Agent Michael Pelligrino had worked closely with Santiago in several capacities. In usurpation a award, he remarked, “I was told by a eminent male one time that a dual many critical days in your life are a day that we are born, and a day we find your purpose.”
Pelligrino is a state’s initial Resiliency Officer part of a new statewide beginning meant to concentration on military dialect mental health.
He continued, “When Pablo upheld away, there’s not a day that goes by that we don’t travel into my bureau and we know what my purpose is.” And my purpose is really simple. And that’s to promote people in self-discovery so that they can flourish.
“And that’s my idea for any and each law coercion officer, each initial responder and each chairman we come into hit with.”
(Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)
Trenton Firefighter Alisa McNeese, right, talks with members of family members of defunct Mercer County Detective Pablo Santiago. In Nov of 1995, McNeese became a city’s initial womanlike firefighter. (Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)
Trenton Firefighter Alisa McNeese, right, binds her endowment while Trenton Fire Director Derrick Sawyer says a few difference (Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)
Trenton Firefighter Emanuel Guerra speaks after receiving his award. In behind from left are Rosa and Freddie Rosado, (Guerra) East Ward Councilman Joseph Harrison and Trenton Fire Director Derrick Sawyer. (Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)
From left, Trenton Police Detectives Herbert Flowers and Walter Rivera mount to accept their awards. In behind are Fire Director Derrick Sawyer and during right, Mayor Reed Gusciora. (Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)
Two (uniformed) Mercer County Sheriff’s Officers, George Dzurkok III, left and Matthew Sickler, right, poise with their awards. With them from left, McDonald’s co-owner Rosa Rosado, East Ward Councilman Joe Harrison, (Dzurkok) Trenton Fire Director Derrick Sawyer, Mayor Reed Gusciora, (Sickler) and Mercer County Undersheriff Robert James. (Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)
McDonald’s worker Anyeli Runaldo offers refreshments to those in attendance. (Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)
From left, Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo Onofri with Agent Michael Pelligrino, who was presented a Detective Pablo Santiago Memorial Award. (Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)
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