BERLIN — A crowd gathered on Main Street last Friday night to dedicate a memorial bench and water fountain to the late Guy Lopez for his years of volunteer work to better his adopted city.
Speaker after speaker detailed how Lopez could be found loading food at the N.H. Food Bank mobile pantry, weeding and raking the downtown as part of the Day of Caring, helping out at Androscoggin Valley Hospital, and raising money for United Way.
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