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Spring Valley Man Given State's Highest Honor For Act Of Heroism
Jean Donald Mathieu helped save three people — including a baby — from a fire Feb. 3.
SPRING VALLEY, NY — A Spring Valley man was honored by being given the state’s highest honor for an individual Sunday.
Jean Donald Mathieu helped save an 8-month-old child and two women from a fire Feb. 3 and was given the Liberty Medal on Sunday for his actions, the Journal News reported.
State Sen. Bill Weber, R-Montebello, gave Mathieu the made during a meeting of the Haitian Cultural Preservation Inc.
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