[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 33 (Thursday, March 7, 2013)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E258]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




IN RECOGNITION OF CHARLES A. ADONIZIO AS THE GREATER PITTSTON PERSON OF 
                                THE YEAR

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                          HON. MATT CARTWRIGHT

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 7, 2013

  Mr. CARTWRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, I rise to recognize the life and 
contributions of Mr. Charles A. Adonizio III who I congratulate on 
being recently named the Greater Pittston Person of the Year by the 
Pittston Dispatch.
  Mr. Adonizio is the immediate past president of the Greater Pittston 
Chamber of Commerce. He was selected for Person of the Year for his 
work in bringing the Hometown Heroes Memorial from idea to reality on 
the lawn of the chamber. The memorial honors the soldiers and police 
officers who lost their lives in the line of duty, and another who was 
severely wounded, from the Greater Pittston area in the past decade.
  Adonizio's roots in the Greater Pittston area run deep. He was born 
in Pittston, graduated from Pittston Area High School, and eventually 
took over the area family insurance company, Atlas Insurance Group in 
1982, from his father, who founded it in 1938. He later added a 
separate company, Atlas Realty Inc., in 1988, and the two companies are 
headquartered in the Keystone section of Plains Township.
  He married the former Karen Delaney of Hughestown and they have two 
children. Kristie Adonizio, 22, is student at Champlain College in 
Burlington, Vt., and Chad Adonizio, 21, a student at Drexel University 
in Philadelphia.
  In 2004, both of Adonizio's businesses received the Small Business of 
the Year award from the Greater Pittston Chamber of Commerce. He is 
president of the Greater Wilkes-Barre Association of Realtors, past 
director and president of the Greater Pittston YMCA and a founding 
director of Landmark Community Bank.
  Please join me in congratulating Mr. Charles Adonizio III on his life 
and contributions and on being named the Greater Pittston Person of the 
Year by the Pittston Dispatch.

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