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Trumbull News: Integrity Awards

#TRUMBULL— Senator Marilyn Moore (D-Bridgeport, Trumbull, Monroe) hosted the 2017 Trumbull Integrity Awards at Town Hall Thursday evening where she honored five town residents making a positive impact on the community through their work and volunteer efforts.

 

“A person of integrity personifies a state of incorruptibility, soundness, and completeness,” Sen. Moore said. “Throughout the town of Trumbull, this is a quality that resonates in our residents.”

 

Sen. Moore’s Trumbull Integrity Award identifies and honors individuals whose integrity stands out in their community and echoes throughout. This year, the honorees were Edward Gillespie, Jennifer Gillis, Paulette Mack, Jeffrey Kunkel, Michael Silva, and Dr. Matthew Wheeler. Honorees were selected by the Trumbull Rotary Club and Trumbull Mothers Offering Mothers Support (MOMS).

 

Here’s what they wrote about each nominee:

 

Ed Gillespie –Nominated by Trumbull Rotary Club

Ed Gillespie is the Executive Director of BizMark, the B2B marketing and communications firm he founded 12 years ago. Ed grew up in the Bronx NY, attended the University of Virginia and later earned his master’s degree from New York University. His career started in financial services, including six years at Citicorp, before he moved to advertising at agencies including Burrell Communications Group, Omnicom and BizMark. Ed believes his life outside of the office is way more important than work. He currently serves as the Vice President of the Bridgeport Rescue Mission, a Christian non-profit that serves the homeless, hungry and addicted.  He just finished a term as President of the Trumbull Rotary Club and actively serve at his church, Crossroads Community Church. Ed lives in Trumbull, CT with his wife Eileen and three grown children, Brian, Meaghan and Erin.

 

Jeffrey Kunkel – Nominated by Trumbull MOMS

Jeff Kunkel runs Trumbull Helps, which has a mission to help residents of local Trumbull communities. This group has grown from organizing food drives (although this is still a large and important part of the group) to offering assistance to residents asking for help, providing meals at Bridgeport Rescue Mission, and supporting high school theater productions. Jeffrey regularly organizes food drives, fundraisers and serves/cooks food for the Bridgeport Rescue Mission and the Trumbull Food Pantry. Jeff is a Trumbull father and grandfather. He runs building services of Southern Connecticut. During storms, he has offered to shovel snow for elderly neighbors. He organizes events to pray the rosary, walking events around the mall. Jeff is a person who unites the community of Trumbull in friendship and fellowship and inspires and motivates others to help and support causes greater than themselves.

 

Michael Silva – Nominated by Trumbull MOMS

Michael Silva helps to run Trumbull Helps, which has a mission to help residents of local Trumbull communities. He is affectionately known in the community as “Bacon Mike,” because of his love of bacon and food. This group has grown from organizing food drives (although this is still a large and important part of the group) to offering assistance to residents asking for help, providing meals at Bridgeport Rescue Mission, and supporting high school theater productions. Michael frequently hosts food drives at his house. He helps to run a semi-annual bacon egg and cheese fundraiser with donations going to the Bridgeport Rescue Mission. Michael is always very positive, is the first so say hello when he sees you, and is always spreading positivity when you see him in person and on social media. His positivity is contagious. He has two children who are in the Trumbull Public School system. He has high moral standards and adds tremendous value to the community.

 

Dr. Matthew Wheeler Nominated by Trumbull MOMS

Dr. Matthew Wheeler, also known as Mr. Matt to the children and parents, has been a preschool coordinator at Trumbull Early Childhood Education Center for the past nine years. The reason he is nominated by MOMS Club is because he is more than just a preschool coordinator; he truly goes above and beyond what is required. He is in constant communication with parents. He makes home visits to help with kids sleeping, eating, parenting and much more. On his own time, he delivers presents to under-privileged children for the holidays. He makes sure that those that are having financial difficulties have Thanksgiving meals. At all events the PTO and Father’s Club sponsors, Mr. Matt is always there, smiling and socializing with the parents and students and doing more than just your typical director. Parents always feel comfortable calling him and discussing anything that involves their children. Caring for people comes natural to him, as he was an EMT for 22 years in a previous career. Mr. Matt is a genuinely kind and compassionate person who makes our community better.

 

Jennifer Gillis and Paulette Mack- Nominated by Stern Village resident Patricia Carter

Jennifer Gillis works at the Senior Center at 23 Pricilla Place in Trumbull as an Outreach Social Worker. Paulette Mack works at Stern Villave, 200 Hedgehog Circle in Trumbull Housing as a Resident Service Coordinator. For these jobs you need to be a people person to do these jobs correctly and they both do. All the other items below is what makes them so “special” at their work:

 

  1. Both are good listeners
  2. Both are soft spoken
  3. Both are comfortable to be around
  4. Both are kind and caring with a mix of a lot of understanding
  5. Both are great problem solvers
  6. Both of them make you feel “special” when talking with you
  7. Both of them work great with seniors and the disabled
  8. They both give 100% plus which doing their jobs

 

We all believe in them and they are their when we need them. They always call you back too!

 

Senator Moore congratulates all the award recipients and encourages them to continue to serve Trumbull and surrounding communities with love and integrity.

(Senator Moore Press release)

Trumbull News: Hostage Situation

Trumbull Police UPDATE – 7:00 p.m.: Trumbull Police have resolved the incident at the “Royce of Trumbull” apartment complex, located on Old Town Road in Trumbull. Shortly before 1:00 p.m. today, Trumbull Police were notified by another law enforcement agency that a woman was being held hostage inside one of the Royce apartments by a man who was armed with a weapon.
Police checked the information provided and learned that the male was also a fugitive.
 
Trumbull Police, assisted by the Southwest Regional Emergency Response Team, closed the apartment complex and established a perimeter around the building in the Royce complex. Police evacuated the nearby apartments in the complex for the safety of the other residents, and made numerous attempts to contact those in the apartment involved.
After numerous attempts to contact the occupants of the apartment were unsuccessful, the Emergency Response Team gained entry to the unit at approximately 5:30 p.m., but it was found to be unoccupied. The lockdown at the apartment complex has been lifted and residents may
return to their homes at this time.

 

5:44pm–UPDATE: The situation is over. It was thought a man took his girlfriend hostage. Police made entry and the apartment was empty.

 

UPDATE: I spoke with Bridgeport spokesperson Rowena White who said there is a person barricaded themselves at Avalon Gates/The Royce and that the lock in at the schools  is a precaution.  K-9 from Shelton is assisting at the incident which is what made me first think it was a manhunt.

 

2:00pm–#Bridgeport CT–#Trumbull CT– There is a manhunt going on at the Old Town Road from what used to be Avalon Gates area (whatever they call it today).  I’m not sure what the person is wanted for but Bryant School and Fairchild Wheeler Schools are locked down- no one can enter or leave or whatever they are calling that these days.

 

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Trumbull Weekend Pursuit

#Trumbull CT–Trumbull Police arrested five (5) teenagers in a stolen vehicle after they were involved in a theft at the Westfield Trumbull Mall and then led officers on a high-speed pursuit Saturday for several miles. The vehicle was finally stopped on Route 25 in Trumbull where police apprehended the four (4) juveniles and one 18-year-old from Hartford: Johnny Aspiliare.

 
The incident began when a mall employee reported that her bag was stolen from her as she sat inside her vehicle during her lunch break. A young male, later identified as a 16- year-old juvenile from Waterbury, reached into the vehicle and grabbed the bag off of the passenger seat through the vehicle’s open window. He then ran to an awaiting 2017 BMW SUV, which was previously reported stolen from a residence in New Canaan, where it had been left unlocked overnight with the keys in it. The BMW then drove through the mall parking lot at a high rate of speed, nearly colliding with several other
vehicles.

 
An off-duty Trumbull Police officer spotted the speeding vehicle in the parking lot and notified dispatchers of the vehicle’s location and direction of travel. Officer Greg Lee then spotted the stolen SUV as it exited the mall and traveled south on Main Street into Bridgeport. The driver ignored the officer’s signal and continued traveling on Main Street, to Summit Avenue, and entered Route 25 southbound. After exiting the highway at Prospect Street in Bridgeport, the vehicle re-entered Route 25 northbound and continued back into Trumbull. With the assistance of additional officers from Trumbull, Bridgeport, and the State Police, the vehicle was stopped on the highway near the Daniels Farm Road exit.

 

 

Police charged Aspiliare with Larceny 1st Degree, Conspiracy to Commit Robbery and Interfering with an Officer. He was held on $10,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in
court on August 21st
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The remaining juveniles, all from Waterbury, were all charged with Larceny 1st Degree, Conspiracy to Commit Robbery and Interfering with an Officer. One of the juveniles, a 15-year-old male from Waterbury, was identified as the driver and was also charged with Reckless Operation, Engaging in Pursuit and a host of other motor vehicle charges. He was later released to a parent.
A second juvenile, a 16-year-old also from Waterbury, was found to have an active arrest warrant from Waterbury Police and was turned over to that agency.
The two (2) remaining juveniles, a 16-year-old male and a 15-year-old female both from Waterbury, were both released to parents. All were scheduled to appear in Juvenile Court on August 21st, 2017.
The vehicle and its occupants are suspected of being involved in similar crimes in the area recently, and detectives are continuing that part of the investigation.

 

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