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On the morning of November 11, prior to Veterans Day festivities, veterans and staff at Essex Center on Park Street in Elizabethtown, got together in the dining room for a Veterans Day group portrait. Pictured (back row, from left) are Michelle Amato, director of nursing at Essex Center; Ray Decker, resident and veteran; Marty Deslauriers, Essex Center administrator. Pictured (front row, from left) are residents and veterans William Talmadge, William Ivimey, Louise Pilkington, Walter Alight, Albert Lawrence and Richard Myers.

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On September 22, Celine Racine Paquette was honored by Hudson Headwaters at the Community Champion Dinner and Award Ceremony at The Sagamore. The Community Champion distinction honors the individuals, families and businesses that help make the North Country a healthy and dynamic place to live, work and play. Celine Racine Paquette is a Hudson Headwaters Health Network Board Member and a well-known community leader in the Champlain region, where her family has lived for generations. Celine is a former school administrator, insurance agency owner and president, and Clinton County legislator. She is the founder and President of the Samuel de Champlain History Center in Champlain and has served in many additional ways, including on the boards of the CVPH Medical Center and St. Michael’s College and as a Trustee of the State University of New York. “Celine is a steadfast advocate for the health of her community and was instrumental in helping to make the new Champlain Family Health center such a success. Since the new facility opened in July 2017, the practice has seen 3,112 new patients and is one of our fastest growing sites,” said Tucker Slingerland, M.D., CEO of Hudson Headwaters. “It’s one thing to build a new health center, it’s quite another to be welcomed and embraced by the community surrounding it. Thanks to Celine’s leadership, we were able to accomplish both.” Pictured (from left) are Jessica Rubin, associate vice president of philanthropy for Hudson Headwaters, Racine Paquette, Slingerland and Melissa Gooley, RN practice leader.

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Patty Duffy (right) is honored for a year of service on the Board of Directors of the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Clinton County at the group’s 2019 annual meeting. Members of the 4-H Bluegrass group also performed at the event.

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Norma Goff (left), President of the Essex Community Fund presents Donna Lou Sonnett with the first ever Francesca Paine “Frisky” Irwin Award to celebrate and honor her legacy of supporting a wide variety of important activities in the Town of Essex and the Adirondack region at large while also serving as a charter member (and first chairperson) of the Essex Community Fund. The award was presented to Sonnett on August 21 at the CFES Center in Essex. A permanent plaque with Donna Lou’s name affixed to it will be installed in the Essex Town Hall.

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On the first Sunday of every month, NcN features local moments of pride, victory and charity. Email one photo with information about who is in the photo and what the event was to browe@pressrepublican.com with “North Country Neighbors” in the subject line.

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