Westchester Remembers Pleasantville's Lenny Joyner

PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. – Months after he was killed in a mountain climbing accident, Pleasantville's Lenny Joyner was honored Monday as Westchester County dedicated in his memory a bridge that he had constructed in Mount Pleasant's Graham Hills Park.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, left, and Leonard Joyner remember Joyner's son Lenny at Monday's unveiling ceremony in Mount Pleasant.
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The plaque remembering Pleasantville's Lenny Joyner, on the footbridge that he built as an Eagle Scout project in 1997 in Graham Hills Park in Mount Pleasant.
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by Robert Michelin

12/19/2012 3:00 p.m.

"The bridge he built here was a major undertaking and has proved to be a great enhancement to the park," County Executive Rob Astorino said. "I often visit the park with my children, and now every time we cross the bridge it will be a nice reminder of Lenny and his service to the community."

Joyner, 31 at the time of his death, built the footbridge in the park in 1997 as his Eagle Scout project. The plaque on the bridge reads "Designed and Built by Lenny Joyner. Eagle Scout Project Troop 5. May 18, 1997."

Joyner, a graduate of Pleasantville High School, died in July while climbing the Maroon Bells mountains near Aspen, Colo. His body was found by helicopter at 11,000 feet after he had been missing for several days.

Joyner spent six years as a paramedic in the New York City Fire Department and was a volunteer in the Pleasantville Fire Department.

Astorino unveiled the dedication plaque at a ceremony on Monday in which he was joined by Joyner's father, Leonard, and many members of the New York and Pleasantville Fire departments.

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