By Barbara Tetreault
BERLIN — A 2000 graduate of White Mountains Community College, former American Culinary Federation Chef of the Year Timothy Prefontaine traveled here from Fort Worth, Texas to offer some advice to this year’s graduating class at Friday’s commencement exercises.
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