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Township Teenager Receives Somerset County Disability Advocate Award For Training Seeing Eye Dogs

October 26, 2016 County Freeholders

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Samantha Petersen, second from right, with her Somerset County Disability Advocate Award. Standing with her at the Oct. 25 Freeholders meeting, are (left to right) Freeholder Peter Palmer, Cynthia Voorhees of the county Office of Aging and Disabilities and her mother, Michele. Also pictured is Plymouth, a Seeing Eye dog in training. Photo: Petersen family.

A township teenager received one of three Somerset County Disabilities Advocate Awards given at the Oct. 25 Board of Chosen Freeholders meeting in Somerville.

Samantha Petersen, 17, received an award for her work raising Seeing Eye puppies for the blind and vision-impaired.

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