CONWAY — Local attorney Maury Geiger was honored last month in Haiti for decades of humanitarian work in the impoverished island nation.
Geiger, 81, of Conway said last month's trip to Haiti — with son Kevin, 52, of Vermont — was his 85th since 1995. The Geigers went there on April 10 and returned home April 13.
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