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An explanation from Geoffrey Giuliano?
Here’s “To the People of Lockport,” a statement e-mailed to the Union-Sun & Journal by Geoffrey Giuliano on Frida
I am from the poorest of broken families in Olcott. As a boy on the beach, I told myself one day I would see the world and do many exciting things.
Well, I have. More than that lonely little boy could ever have imagined!
When I first became successful, like many, I had no reference on how to handle this sudden change in my life. After all, one never really expects one’s dreams to come true. But in my case, and to everyone’s surprise, they did.
I lost my balance. I became arrogant, selfish and extremely self-centered. I bought a big house, fast cars and showed off my new found stature just like any poor boy might from the wrong side of the tracks.
And then I found my faith.
Although my path starts (for me) in ancient India there is only one God and one beautiful blue world in which we all live. Now, as an important part of my spiritual growth much of my external wealth, career and even my once good name have been lost. And it has only done me good!
Ground down to my essence, I am now, at 52, a much kinder, quieter, more compassionate, caring person. And now I want to give something back (along with SRI) to the warm, friendly folk of Lockport.
I would like to publicly apologize to the City of Lockport Police Department and Chief Neil Merritt for the many times I was verbally abusive and very much off base in my immature, aggressive approach to simple problem solving. There are others, too, I have treated wrongly, and to you too, I am deeply sorry.
As for those who have helped me grow in a positive way over these many years is one name in particular, Lockport’s beloved Robert Gray (The Old Gray Goose). Goose is certainly one of the wisest, kindest and most truly compassionate beings I have ever known.
If, in the future I can use my time and talent to serve the City Of Lockport via this exciting new project on Market Street I give you my word I will do my very best to be a good steward of both the Beatles /Sixties Expo and my overlapping responsibility to the people of Lockport, New York, my home, wherever, the wind may blow me.
Geoffrey Giuliano
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