September 29th, 2008
SEEKONK, Mass. (AP) - The effort to name the post office in Seekonk in honor of a local Marine who died in Iraq is one step closer to reality. Congressman James McGovern says the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill to name the facility after Lance Corporal Eric Valdepenas. The bill now goes to the Senate.
The 21-year-old Valdepenas was killed in September 2006 when a roadside bomb struck his vehicle in Al Anbar province. Valdepenas served in the Marine Reserve’s 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, based in Ayer.
He was a graduate of Bishop Hendricken High School in Warwick, Rhode Island, where he was an honors student and captain of the lacrosse team, and an engineering student at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
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April 15th, 2008
We are no longer holding the lacrosse match on June 7th. Instead we will have a Shemenski night in conjunction with a lacrosse match at Bishop Hendricken High School. It will be held on May 9th (Friday) at 6:00pm. The game is between Bishop Hendricken and LaSalle High School. All proceeds will benefit the Foundation.
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February 29th, 2008
Online Registration
2008 SAS Memorial Golf Tournament
Sunday, June 8th, 2008 at Cranston Country Club.
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May 29th, 2004
Bill Reynolds
Providence Journal
Monday, May 24, 2004
WARWICK — Earlier in the week, the forecast for Sunday had called for cloudy skies, maybe even rain.
“Don’t worry,” said Sue Shemenski to people organizing the event. “You do everything else, and Scott will take care of the weather.”
She was referring to the Scott Shemenski Memorial, named for her husband. The second annual game took place at Bishop Hendricken High School yesterday on a day that belonged on a postcard. It was in honor of the former Hendricken lacrosse coach and co-founder of the R.I. Youth Lacrosse League who died of leukemia three years ago at 43.
He was one of those unsung heroes in sports, the kind of guy who does all the things nobody wants to do, the kind of guy who makes the calls and lines the field and does all the behind-the scenes things. The kind of guy who spread the gospel of lacrosse to anyone who would listen. The kind of guy who makes sports work. The kind of man who should be remembered, for we can never have enough of them.
But yesterday’s game was more than that.
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