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Giving Back to the Community

Giving Back to the Community

Attorney Joseph M. Orlando, born and raised in Gloucester, MA, has worked to give back to his community.In the 1980s, Attorney Joseph M. Orlando was a member of the St. Peter’s Fiesta Committee, and oversaw the four day feast of the patron saint of fishermen.

Attorney Orlando, in back, second from left, with the Fiesta Committee in the early 1980s.

Upon his resignation from being an active member in the late 1980s, he has continued to offer free legal service to the Fiesta Committee, as it works to keep this tradition alive.

In 1986, as the Federal government sought to restrict fishermen’s rights to collect settlements when injured, Attorney Joseph M. Orlando testified in Washington about this abuse by marine insurance companies.

Joseph M. Orlando and Joseph M. Orlando, Jr., walk in the 1989 St. Peter’s Fiesta parade.

House sinks marine insurance bill
Gloucester Daily Times, August 14, 1986

 

City of Gloucester:

Attorney Joseph M. Orlando returned to live in his hometown of Gloucester in 2000.  From 2011-2017, Joseph M. Orlando, Esq. was appointed by the Mayor of Gloucester, Carolyn Kirk, to the City of Gloucester’s Planning Board, where he voluntarily served his community.

Manchester:

Manchester-Essex Little League All Star Team, 1997

As a resident of Manchester for 11 years, Attorney Joseph M. Orlando led the fight for a Prop 2 ½ override to fund the public school systems, drawing support and thanks from the Manchester Teachers’ Union.

Letter From Timothy Averill, President of the Manchester Teacher’s Associates, dated October 24, 1990

Manchester Approves Override
Salem News, October 23, 1990

He also worked to garner support for the school choice program, to give all families choices in the education of their children.

A Success From Every Side
Boston Globe, June 21, 1992

Attorney Joseph M. Orlando, who has had a lifelong passion for baseball, noted upon his arrival in Manchester that it lacked a competitive league for its youngsters.  Towards that end, he founded the Manchester Essex Little League organization, and created the team logo, which is still used in those communities today. One of his greatest honors is that he was the first person inducted into the Manchester Essex Little League Hall of Fame.

 

Hamilton:

Prior to moving back to Gloucester, during the years that he and his wife owned a home in Hamilton, Attorney Joseph M. Orlando, Jr. was an elected official of the Town of Hamilton Planning Board.

Attorney Joseph M. Orlando, Sr. also served on the board of directors of the Josh Quince Foundation, which helped to raise money for teens struggling with mental illness.

North Shore:

Joseph M. Orlando, Jr., Esq. serves on the board of directors for the non-profit 501(c)(3) organization known as “Everyday Heroes,” which benefits the families of public safety and military officers who are injured or killed in the line of duty. Find the charity at www.supporteverydayheroes.org.

Attorney Orlando, Jr. also began a collaboration with Nicastro’s Driving School in Gloucester, to give lectures to new drivers on the importance of adequate automobile insurance and valuable information on how to proceed should there be an accident.

Orlando & Associates and Nicastro’s Driving School

The program was so successful that it has expanded to the Danvers branch run by Nicastro’s, and Attorney Stonage joined to give lectures at that school.

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