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FRIDAY, MAY 2, 2014
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PALM CITY — By all accounts, Major John “Ski” Pietruszewski loved the art of shooting. “He loved this range,” Ruth Pietruszewski said. “He was here constantly.” On what would have been Pietruszewski’s 71st birthday — Saturday, April 26 — the Martin County Sheriff’s Office’s firearms training range at 8355 S.W. Busch St., Palm City, was named the Martin County Sheriff’s Office Major John “Ski” Pietruszewski Firearms Range. Ruth joined Sheriff William Snyder and other dignitaries, such as former Sheriff Bob Crowder, to honor her husband’s memory. Ruth said Pietruszewski, who most knew as “Ski,” didn’t just spend time on the gun range to shoot recreationally. He was always there training someone in or out of law enforcement the art of shooting. “He was a real workaholic,” she said. Pietruszewski moved to Martin back in the early 1980s. He joined the Sheriff’s Office in ‘83. The Vietnam-era Navy veteran had done a number of jobs, including sitting in airplane seat prototypes while getting spun in a centrifuge. That’s how the Navy tested seat ergonomics at the time. Ruth said her husband was a mechanic before moving to Palm City and going into law en-