{"id":71315,"date":"2016-07-26T22:48:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T02:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=71315"},"modified":"2016-07-25T22:53:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T02:53:40","slug":"thomas-lindsey-foundation-donates-bicycles-to-cornhill-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=71315","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Lindsey Foundation Donates Bicycles to Cornhill Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"unnamed<\/a>Utica Mayor Robert Palmieri has been conducting Neighborhood Quality of Life Sweeps every Wednesday from April until December; weather permitting, since he came into office.<\/p>\n

The Neighborhood sweep is a way of restoring pride to the City. “We want to bring the hope back to them. This city is a great area. We have great people out there, and we want people to feel safe and we want it to be clean for them,” Mayor Palmieri said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The program’s biggest success has been putting people in touch with department heads to identify and solve problems.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Sweep in Cornhill definitely affected the quality of life for four young men he met on the walk through the neighborhood.<\/span><\/p>\n

The young men came up to Mayor just to shake his hand and say hello.\u00a0 While talking to them he asked why they didn\u2019t ride their bike over to one of the City pools to cool off.\u00a0 He was told they couldn\u2019t because their bikes had been stolen the night before.<\/span><\/p>\n

UPD Deputy Chief Ed Noonan overheard the conversation, and a member of the Thomas Lindsey Foundation called Cpt. D.E. Cinque and Lt. M.V. D\u2019Ambro to see what the foundation could do.<\/span><\/p>\n

That one phone call set a chain of events in motion.\u00a0 Within a short period of time they were both on the scene and ready to help.<\/span><\/p>\n

The four boys were picked up and brought to Wal-Mart in North Utica to choose brand new bicycles \u2013 courtesy of the Thomas Lindsey Foundation.\u00a0 This snowballed into a mini community event.\u00a0 Wal-Mart mangers helped the boys pick out their new rides \u2013 adjusted the bikes to fit each of them and then donated helmets to keep them safe while the ride.<\/span><\/p>\n

Once again incidences like this show that Utica is a great and caring community.\u00a0 This to some may seem a small gesture to some, but to these four boys it was major.\u00a0 One boy commented that this is the first time he has had a bike with brakes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mayor Palmieri said, \u201cThis is all part of our never-ending commitment to provide a better quality of life in the City of Utica.\u201d \u201cKeep it Clean!\u201d \u201cKeep it Safe!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Utica Mayor Robert Palmieri has been conducting Neighborhood Quality of Life Sweeps every Wednesday from April until December; weather permitting, since he came into office. The Neighborhood sweep is a way of restoring pride to the City. “We want to bring the hope back to them. This city is a great area. We have great […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-iyf","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/unnamed-6.jpg?fit=737%2C1106&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}