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Guide Dog Graduation: Northern Westchester-Based Nonprofit Provides Pups To Homes Across US Guide Dog Graduation: Northern Westchester-Based Nonprofit Provides Pups To Homes Across US
Guide Dog Graduation: Northern Westchester-Based Nonprofit Provides Pups To Homes Across US A new class of guide dogs that graduated from a New York nonprofit organization – including one dog going to serve the organization’s CEO – demonstrates the group’s 60-year commitment to changing the lives of people with vision loss or blindness. On Friday, April 12, Guiding Eyes for the Blind held one of its biannual guide dog graduations, celebrating the hard work of volunteers and pups alike and officially transferring the furry friends’ care to their new owners. However, this graduation was a little different from others — one of the graduates was a yellow lab named “Ten,” who had tra…

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by Sophie Grieser
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Kim Salveggi Of Yorktown Heights Dies At 44, Dental Hygienist Kim Salveggi Of Yorktown Heights Dies At 44, Dental Hygienist
Kim Salveggi Of Yorktown Heights Dies At 44, Dental Hygienist Kim Marie Salveggi of Yorktown Heights died suddenly on Saturday, March 17.  She was 44. Kim was born Feb. 2, 1974 in the Bronx to Joseph and Judith Pomaro. She graduated from Spellman High School and then went on to SUNY Farmingdale receiving an Associates Dergree in Science, majoring in Dental Hygiene.  She married Louis Salveggi on Oct. 18 1997. She worked as a dental hygienist for Dr. Frank Petronella DDS in Tuckahoe. Kim was an active volunteer with the American Heart Association and Guiding Eyes for the Blind.  Kim is survived by her husband, daughters Erica and Olivia, mother and fa…

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by Daily Voice