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The Verizon Telecom Pioneers 7 recently distributed 50 ‘Hug a Bears’ to the Luzerne County Child Advocacy Center, Wilkes-Barre. The bears are handmade by the Pioneer crafters. The Telecom Pioneers is a nonprofit organization of retired and active members of Verizon Communications who are involved in many local volunteer and charitable activities. Participants, from left, first row, are Mary Oresick, Dee Pavlick, Joan Latinski and Dolores McGill, Pioneer crafters. Second row: Shannon Peduto, executive director, Luzerne County Child Advocacy Center, and Rosemary Gawat, Pioneer crafter.