Guenther, Covert Honored At Annual Recovery Dinner – All Otsego

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Guenther, Covert Honored

At Annual Recovery Dinner

Five Star Subaru proprietor Ben Guenther, left, receives LEAF's 2016 Sioussat Award from Julie Dostal, LEAF executive director, at last evening’s annual Recovery Dinner at the Holiday Inn/Southside in Oneonta. At right, Cooperstown Police Chief Michael Covert receives and annual Amethyst Award from Kelly Liner, executive director of FORDO, the Friends of Recovery for Delaware & Otsego Counties. (Tara Barnwell/AllOTSEGO.com)
Five Star Subaru proprietor Ben Guenther, left, receives LEAF’s 2016 Sioussat Award from Julie Dostal, LEAF executive director, at last evening’s annual Recovery Dinner at the Holiday Inn/Southside in Oneonta. At right, Cooperstown Police Chief Michael Covert receives and annual Amethyst Award from Kelly Liner, executive director of FORDO, the Friends of Recovery for Delaware & Otsego Counties.   Five Star has co-sponsored such LEAF events at the TUFF eNUFF obstacle-course race, and Covert has pioneered PAARI in Otsego County.    Pioneered in Gloucester, Mass., the Police Assisted Addiction & Recovery Initiative, encourages addicts to turn in their “kit” without fear of arrest, and to immediately enter rehab.   (Tara Barnwell/AllOTSEGO.com)

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