On behalf of Peace- Works, Peace Fair visitors and the at-large community, I want to thank members of the Brunswick Police Department for stopping by the Peace Fair on Saturday morning with an offer of ice cream — an offer gladly accepted by the organizers of the fair on a hot day in August. Our thanks also go to the ice cream firm sorry not to have the name.

It seems that an ice cream firm had overestimated the amount of chocolate ice cream cups to be delivered within the Brunswick area and the driver, eager to empty the 18-wheeler of the remainder of its delicious cargo within the community before heading back to home base, contacted the Brunswick Police Dept. for possible sites where the treats would be appreciated — among them the Peace Fair event on the Brunswick Mall was suggested as a recipient.

Willing hands — local policemen — helped to unload the many boxes of ice cream cups and from there Peace Fair volunteers distributed them to visitors to the ongoing fair where children and adults happily shared the cold refreshment.

Quick-thinking and community minded volunteers at the Peace Fair decided to share the large number of boxes with yet more organizations, among them the Brunswick Fire Dept., the community housing on the corner of Baribeau Drive and Pleasant Hill Road, the Farmers Market at Crystal Springs, the Brunswick B&B on Park Row and the fraternal club on Park Row.

On this day Brunswick residents and visitors did not only share delicious ice cream, lots of smiles and thank-yous, but shared a sense of community by reaching out to one another.

Christine A. DeTroy,

Brunswick