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Pizza & Prevention raises $13,000-plus for Punxsy Fire Department |
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Written by Tom Chapin
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Saturday, 04 November 2006 |
 (From left) Casey Tymensky of County Market, Ed Kengersky of Nationwide Insurance-The Kengersky Agency, Scott Depp and Wayne Pifer, both of the Central Fire Company, Scott Anthony of Fox's Pizza Den and Danielle White of Burger King helped wrap up the fifth-annual Pizza & Prevention effort Wednesday. Missing are co-sponsor representatives from Pinned Designs, Personally Yours Printing, Wal-Mart, Mike Defelice Construction, Mayor James Wehrle, SunnyDell Foods, WPXZ 104.1 FM and The Punxsutawney Spirit. (Photo by Hannah Anthony)
PUNXSUTAWNEY - Fox's Pizza Den and the Punxsutawney Fire Department wrapped up their fifth-annual Pizza & Prevention event this week.
Wednesday, sponsors Ed Kengersky of Nationwide Insurance-The Kengersky Agency and Scott Anthony, owner of Fox's Pizza Den, presented a check for $13,500 to the Punxsutawney Fire Department.
To date, more than $46,000 has been raised by this event, and nearly 1,500 homes have been equipped with working smoke detectors.
Melody Petrovsky, manager of Burger King in Punxsutawney, thanked the local fire departments for their ongoing heroic duties in the community.
As a special token of appreciation for the self-sacrificing efforts of local firefighters, Fox's Pizza Den presented the department with "The Key to Our Den."
"This event is a great fund-raiser for the Punxsutawney Fire Department," said Central Chief Scott Depp on behalf of the entire department.
"The fund-raiser benefits both the department and the community by providing smoke detectors to homes that don't have any, helping to keep them safe," Depp said.
"They say that it takes a tribe to raise a child, and in the same aspect, it takes events like this to help support a community," he said.
"We are thankful for being asked to take part in this fund-raiser for our local Fire Departments," said Wayne Pifer, co-sponsor, Central firefighter and owner of the Pifer Funeral Home Inc. in Punxsutawney.
Depp and Pifer also acknowledged Fox's Pizza Den as being the driving force behind the annual event.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 06 November 2006 )
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