Shirts for Sale to Honor Slain Officer
A Bridgeville company is producing thousands of T-shirts to memorialize the slain Lower Burrell police officer and raise money for his family.
Workers at X-Deco spent the past few days printing more than 7,000 shirts to benefit the Derek Kotecki Memorial T-Shirt Fund and will continue to roll more off the presses.
Derek Kotecki, a K-9 officer in Lower Burrell, was shot to death on Oct. 12 near the New Kensington/Plum border as he attempted to arrest a wanted man. All of the proceeds from the shirts will be donated to the fund, and some of the workers have volunteered their time so more money goes to the family.
“We like helping them out,” said Perry Smith, a Bridgeville resident , as he placed shirts on a drying conveyor belt. “I have a few friends who are officers and would hate to see anything happen to them. Anything we can do to help.”
Ryan Niggel, president of the screen printing and embroidery company on Union Street, said a lot of effort is being put into the shirts to honor the fallen officer.
Hands Turned On(TM) Launches Energy Medicine T-shirts Designed by Ann Marie ...
The clothing line is designed by Ann Marie Chiasson M.D., a renowned energy medicine healer who teaches at the University of Arizona's Center for Integrative Medicine with its founder, integrative medicine expert, Dr. Andrew Weil. She is also the author of a comprehensive home study kit entitled Energy Healing: The Essentials of Self-Care, and co-author, along with Dr. Weil, of Self-Healing with Energy Medicine.
The shirt designs feature Dr. Chiasson's own handprints showing wearers how to position their hands to perform a specific healing exercise. Each T-shirt also comes with an instructional hangtag that explains how to perform the energy healing technique that the shirt demonstrates. The shirts are made of cotton and come in a range of colors such as kiwi, indigo, plum and teal.
"Dr. Ann Marie Chiasson is a wonderful energy healer," says Dr. Andrew Weil. "Having her work available through Hands Turned On is a gift. I highly recommend these clothes to anyone who wants to explore self healing.






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Each T-shirt also comes with an instructional hangtag that explains how to perform the energy healing technique that the shirt demonstrates. The shirts are made of cotton and come in a range of colors such as kiwi, indigo, plum and teal.




