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as 200 people weathered 90-de-gree heat to salute the 2020 class atNortheast Delta Dental Stadium.

The program, ono r,w in its 19th year, honors New Hampshire residents who have achieved professional and volunteer accomplishments.

“The Union Leader 40 Under Forty once again proveves that talent-ed young people are a renewable resource in the Granite State,,” saidBrendan McQuaid, the newspa-per’s presiden r.t and publisher.

This year’s attendees wererequired to wear masks —

29 to 39, joined 720 alumni who havave been honored since the pro-gram’s inception in 2002.

They represented numerous fields in the private and public sec-

r,tor, including health care, educa-tion, social services, public policy,

dent of the Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire,helped announce the honorees with McQuaid.

Senate President Donna Soucy addressed the group and also posed for individual photos with each honoree.

“A“As individuals and as a group you represent the best of New Hampshire and its future, people who are passionate about helping others and building comm ,”unity,”Soucy said.

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required to wear masks — among numerous social-distance precautions at the event, which was moved outdoors after it was re-scheduled from March. Each hon-oree and their guests had a couple of rows to themselves, with a full empty rowow of seating between re-cipients.

The 21 women and 19 men, ages

tion, social services, public policy, the trades fi, finance, engineering, telecommunications, theater and awlaw enforcement.

“It’s a little ovever ,”whelming,” said RyRyan Hvizda, 38, of Concord, a Re-altor with H Kevizda Realty K Wieller Wil-liams Metr owopolitan and owner of Bonafide Green Foods.

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Rick Barron, 33, of Bradford,owner of Legacy Mechanical Ser-vices in Concord, said publicityfrom the 40 Under Forty program helped him get the word out about his new business, which he la r,unched in December, a month before the Union Leader

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