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To: FaultLine who wrote (8021)	10/29/2001 1:28:33 AM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Respond to of 281500

Street scavenger leaves $1 million for attack victims October 28, 2001 Posted: 10:53 AM EST (1553 GMT) [Off topic, but this is the kind of man and story our efforts are defending] MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (AP) -- Joe Temeczko appeared to be a pauper scavenging the streets. But when the 86-year-old Polish immigrant died earlier this month, he left behind an estate estimated at $1 million for New York City to honor those who died September 11. Few who knew him suspected the self-employed carpenter, laborer and former prisoner of war was so well-off, but none was surprised by his generosity. Temeczko loved his adopted country and especially New York, where he arrived in 1950 to become a U.S. citizen. He worked on a construction project at the Statue of Liberty and saved his framed letter of appreciation, along with the numerous items culled from daily alley walks. "I was talking with him after the disaster and he seemed pretty distraught," said his neighbor David Schad, who found Temeczko's body in his yard October 14. "It hit him on a different level." Temeczko lived alone in a modest house in Minnesota and died of an apparent heart attack. He left no relatives, according to his will, filed Tuesday in probate court. Temeczko told his lawyer, William Wangensteen, in late September that he wanted help with a will. "He told me, 'I think you're going to like what I'm going to do,"' Wangensteen said. The will directs that Temeczko's entire estate -- which Wangensteen estimates will total more than $1 million -- should go to New York and be used at the discretion of Mayor Rudy Giuliani and the City Council.