[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 32 (Tuesday, March 14, 2006)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E355]
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    CONGRATULATING WARREN POLLARD, RECIPIENT OF THE JOSEPH SAPORITO 
                       LIFETIME OF SERVICE AWARD

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                         HON. PAUL E. KANJORSKI

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, March 14, 2006

  Mr. KANJORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ask you and my esteemed 
colleagues in the House of Representatives to pay tribute to Warren 
Pollard, of West Pittston, PA, the recipient of the Pittston Sunday 
Dispatch newspaper's Joseph Saporito Lifetime of Service Award for 
2005.
  Mr. Pollard has spent decades cooking food for good causes including 
the Greater Pittston Meals on Wheels for area shut-ins. He often helps 
deliver the meals as well.
  Mr. Pollard grew up in Avoca, PA. He attended Wharton School of 
Finance in Philadelphia and Wilkes College in Wilkes-Barre. He served 2 
years with the U.S. Army including a tour of duty in Korea. He returned 
home to become a bank examiner.
  Mr. Pollard first started volunteering as a community cook more than 
30 years ago when he started cooking spaghetti dinners for the Boy 
Scouts from the kitchen at the First United Methodist Church in West 
Pittston. He has done dinner fund raisers for the local fire company 
and an annual pork dinner for the church.
  His church fund raisers also extend to selling pastry pockets stuffed 
with meat and vegetables and fruit pies.
  Twice a year he cooks for the area's homeless when they stay at his 
church. And he also does a Thanksgiving dinner which is open to anyone 
in the community needing food.
  Mr. Speaker, please join me in paying tribute to Mr. Pollard. His 
selflessness and devotion to service and community are truly 
commendable. It is fitting that he should receive this honor from his 
home town because Mr. Pollard's work has improved the quality of life 
in the greater Pittston area.

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