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Balya
Accepts Fulcomer Award for Westmoreland County
Operation Outward Reach named
Westmoreland County the recipient of the Thomas Fulcomer
Friends to Operation Outward Reach Award for 2005.
Tom Balya, Chairman of the
County Commissioners, accepted the award at the OOR Annual
Meeting and Luncheon in May.
In presenting the plaque, OOR
Board Chair James McDonough said that officials of
Westmoreland County have supported the program since its
inception in 1972. During a seven year period beginning in
the early 1980's, the County helped OOR through some hard
times with grants from Community Services Block Grant
funding and the Adult Services Program.
OOR currently receives
support through the county from the Human Services
Development Fund. |
Above are James McDonough,
OOR Board Chair; Joe Desuta, Guest Speaker; John Pastorek,
PANO representative, Ray Thompson, OOR President; Tom Balya,
Chairman, Westmoreland County Commissioners.
Fulcomer Award
This award was created in 2002 in memory
of Thomas Fulcomer, "for those who have shown long-term
friendship and support to the agency."
Mr. Fulcomer was Education
Director at SCI Greensburg where OOR had its beginnings
in 1972.
In OOR's early years, he,
Father Vincent Rocco and Joseph Rollins were the driving
force behind its development as a community service and
inmate training program.
Throughout his years with
the Department of Corrections he provided support,
advice, encour- agement and friendship to OOR.
At the time of his death
in 2002, Mr. Fulcomer was Deputy Secretary for the
Western Region. |
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