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| By G. Michael Dobbs Managing Editor CHICOPEE The donation made to the Council on Aging Building Fund on Wednesday was all about friendship. "It's a bunch of friends being nice to each other," Jim O'Connor, one of the sons of the late Velma O'Connor, said. Members of the group who sponsor the David Janulewicz Annual Golf Tournament gave a $1,000 to the Friends of the Council on Aging earmarked for the senior center building fund. "She came here all the time," said O'Connor referring to his mother who passed away several weeks ago. "It's fitting to do something she really liked." How the tournament committee came to make the donation in her name is the product of friendship. The tournament was organized to honor Janulewicz by his friends who are all regulars at the Windsor Caf . "It's like 'Cheers,'" Janulewicz's father Richard said of the atmosphere of the caf . David Janulewicz died in 2004 and his friends founded "Foursomes for Fleshy" Janulewicz's nickname as a way to honor their friend. Each year the tournament has raised money that has been donated to Chicopee charitable efforts such as Jimmy's Stuff the Stocking and Lorraine's Soup Kitchen. O'Connor said that he and his siblings grew up with Janulewicz and when his mother died the committee members decided to make a donation in her name to a place she loved: the Senior Center. O'Connor noted with a smile that his mother had 10 children spaced out over 24 years. "We knew half of Chicopee," he said with a laugh. |