BERLIN — In how she approaches her role as a medical social worker with Coos County Family Health Services, Bridget Laflamme is known by this statement: “I’ll see what I can do.”
Those six words are more than a catchphrase for Laflamme. They are an embodiment of who she is as a person and professional, and they are the reason she has been named the 43rd recipient of the Sylvia Evans Award.
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