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Honoring very helpful furry friends it’s one of the longest relationships she’s ever had. She began working with her fifth service To those who depend on dog, MacGyver, in 2019. A white Labrador retriever, them, service dogs are much more than just pets. They help MacGyver has been a constant their human companions with help to Treston. When she mobility, stability, awareness served on the City Council, he would wait patiently for her and overall quality of life. In many ways, they’re care- signal for him to join her on the takers. dais at meetings in City Hall To recognize the after she maneuvital help these vered to her seat in dogs offer, the Town an electric lift, and of Hempstead he would stay by joined in the recogher side until the nition of Septemmeetings concludber as National Sered. vice Do g Month, “Not to use a partnering with pun, but they truly Canine Companare a dif ferent i o n s ’ N o r t h e a s t Liz TRESToN b re e d , ” T re s t o n Regional Training Long Beach said. “Service dogs Center, in Medford, help so many difwhich strives to ferent disabilities ensure that everyone who — visually impaired, hearing needs the help of a furry friend impaired and more.” gets it. “Canine Companions is the One of those who has bene- nation’s first and largest serfited from the organization’s vice dog organization,” John work is for mer Long Beach Betzinger, the public relations City Councilman Liz Treston, and marketing coordinator for who has used a wheelchair the Medford center, said. “We since her spinal cord was dam- serve people with all disabiliaged in an accident three ties, other than blindness. Our decades ago. Treston has been dogs know over 40 advanced involved with Canine Companions ever since, and jokes that Continued on page 9
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The focus was on domestic violence Long Beach’s Circulo de la Hispanidad held its Peace Begins with Me Walk, to heighten awareness of domestic violence, last Saturday. The walk, which kicked off on the boardwalk at Laurelton Boulevard, was part of the organization’s Salva Domestic Violence Project. Participants dressed in purple, held signs and walked in solidarity.
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