Volume 19, Number 22
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Thursday, July 30, 2015
Community shares grief with Cop family By Charles Kreutzkamp and Nate Brown The Berlin Citizen
More than a thousand people shared the grief of the Cop family last week, attending the funeral and wake of 15-year-old Tyler Cop. “We will always remember him in our prayers,” Rev. Edmund Karwowski said, speak-
ing to The Citizen by phone. The priest estimated some 600 people attended the funeral, and as many as 3,000 attended the wake. “That is a lot of support.” Karwowski said he noticed the presence of members of state and local police and fire departments who came to support the family. Tyler died at Connecticut
Children’s Medical Center in Hartford July 16. Police determined that the cause of death was a shot in the torso from a pellet gun. The investigation is ongoing and no charges had been filed at press time. Tyler attended confirmation class at Sacred Heart Church, at 48 Cottage St. in East Berlin, and his family were regular church-goers,
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Chattanooga Marines honored Flags at Veterans Park were flown at halfstaff last week to honor the memory of the Marines killed in an attack at the military recruiting center in Chattanooga, Tenn. The victims included Carson A. Holmquist, 25, Randall Smith, 26, Thomas J. Sullivan, 40, Squire K. “Skip” Wells, 21, and David A. Wyatt, 37. Smith served in the Navy, and the others served in the Marine Corps. Two other people were wounded in the attack. “Governor Malloy ordered the flags to half-mast Tuesday night,” and the flags were flown at half-mast across the state until Saturday, explained Veterans Commission Sec-
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By Charles Kreutzkamp
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eryone enjoyed being around. He was a competitive kid, but he always had a smile on his face,” John Capodice, Tyler’s freshmen basketball team coach told The Citizen. Capodice knew Tyler since he was in fourth grade, coaching him on his Berlin Bears youth football team and on the Ber-
Swimwear designs are making a splash
The flags at Veterans Park were at half-staff last week to honor the memory of the Marines killed in an attack on the military recruiting center in Chattanooga, Tenn.
By Charles Kreutzkamp
Karwowski said. He liked dinosaurs and the “Jurassic World” movie, according to his obituary, and X-Box video games. A devoted fan of the Boston Red Sox and New York Giants, he also was a talented athlete. Tyler was a member of the undefeated freshmen football team at Berlin High this past fall. “He was just a kid that ev-
retary Peter Galgano. Galgano said it was important to remember “our fallen military personnel. They were in their office doing their job and they were gunned down while on duty.” “One of our gentleman is a marine,” and he is responsible for raising and lowering the flags said Veterans Commission Chairman Tom Chesery. “These guys are war veterans, and they were gunned down in their own country just trying to do their job … it’s senseless.” Chesery said he couldn’t help but think fewer might have died if the personnel had been armed. Among issues in the national discussion after the incident has been increasing security at military offices.
Berlin resident Kasia Roginska continues to impress with her vibrant and eye-catching KARO swimwear designs, which were featured this summer in the UK editions of Vogue, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan, as well as gracing the covers of other magazines. “It’s exciting,” Roginska told The Citizen. When she first received an email from Vogue, she wasn’t certain it was legitimate – after all, email scams are common. But once she called the British telephone number and realized that Vogue was truly interested in her swimsuit designs, she was overjoyed. Roginska developed the first KARO designs in January of 2013 with the idea to integrate jewelry into the design of a swimsuit. She first started out using “a soldering iron stolen from my husband,” she quipped in an earlier interview. Many of her designs have playful elements, such as the “Denim Overall One Piece,”
Martha Boltromiejuk, of Plainville, models one of Kasia Roginska’s eyecatching swimwear designs. | Photo by Marcin Rafalowicz
patterned to look like faded denim and accented with a hand-beaded belt, or the “Seashell Madness” bikini featuring faux pearls and shells on the neck and hips. See Swimwear / Page 2