Yates County fire, EMS volunteers honored

Thomas F. O'Mara

April 17, 2014

Volunteers/ing

Yates County Emergency Services recently honored many of the local volunteers who contribute thousands of hours of service to communities across the county. In fact, they paid tribute to a total of 710 volunteers who gave 8,484 hours of training and service.

Congratulations -- and thank you -- to all of this year's honorees and special award recipients.

Read more in The Chronicle-Express, "Yates County Fire, EMS volunteers honored for training and service"

And in the observer-review.com, "Yates County honors emergency responders"

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"The improvement and upkeep of local transportation infrastructure is a wise use of taxpayer dollars. Every additional dollar of state support means a dollar less that our local property taxpayers have to pay," said Senator O'Mara and Assemblyman Palmesano.

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