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PAWS presents service dog to Fort Myers family

David Albers/Staff - PAWS Executive Director Jeannie Bates speaks about her organization's work to train service dogs for children and veterans during a ceremony to present a service dog at the Moorings Country Club on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, in Naples. A service dog was presented to the family of 11-year-old Hannah Grant who was paralyzed in a car accident and sustained a traumatic brain injury.

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David Albers/Staff - PAWS Executive Director Jeannie Bates speaks about her organization's work to train service dogs for children and veterans during a ceremony to present a service dog at the Moorings Country Club on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, in Naples. A service dog was presented to the family of 11-year-old Hannah Grant who was paralyzed in a car accident and sustained a traumatic brain injury.

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  • David Albers/Staff - PAWS Executive Director Jeannie Bates, center, visits with Fort Myers resident Scott Grant, left, and 4-year-old Kaelynn Miller before a ceremony to present the service dog to the Grant family at the Moorings Country Club on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, in Naples. The service dog was presented to the family of 11-year-old Hannah Grant who was paralyzed in a car accident and sustained a traumatic brain injury.
  • David Albers/Staff - PAWS Executive Director Jeannie Bates speaks about her organization's work to train service dogs for children and veterans during a ceremony to present a service dog at the Moorings Country Club on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, in Naples. A service dog was presented to the family of 11-year-old Hannah Grant who was paralyzed in a car accident and sustained a traumatic brain injury.
  • David Albers/Staff - PAWS Executive Director Jeannie Bates speaks about her organization's work to train service dogs for children and veterans during a ceremony to present a service dog at the Moorings Country Club on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, in Naples. A service dog was presented to the family of 11-year-old Hannah Grant who was paralyzed in a car accident and sustained a traumatic brain injury.
  • David Albers/Staff - PAWS volunteer Lee Tobias welcomes attendees of a ceremony to present a service dog to a Fort Myers family at the Moorings Country Club on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, in Naples. A service dog was presented to the family of 11-year-old Hannah Grant who was paralyzed in a car accident and sustained a traumatic brain injury.
  • David Albers/Staff - PAWS Executive Director Jeannie Bates, left, presents service dog Fosse to Fort Myers resident Scott Grant, right, and his 14-year-old daughter Shannon, during a ceremony at the Moorings Country Club on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, in Naples. The service dog was presented to the family of 11-year-old Hannah Grant, who was paralyzed in a 2007 car accident and sustained a traumatic brain injury.
  • David Albers/Staff - Audience members listen to members of the Grant family speak about 11-year-old Hannah Grant during a ceremony to present a service dog to the family at the Moorings Country Club on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, in Naples.
  • David Albers/Staff - Fort Myers resident Scott Grant speaks about his daughter, Hannah Grant, during a ceremony to present a service dog to his family at the Moorings Country Club on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, in Naples. The service dog was presented to the family of the 11-year-old who was paralyzed in a car accident and sustained a traumatic brain injury.
  • David Albers/Staff - Fourteen-year-old Shannon Grant, of Fort Myers, speaks about her sister, Hannah Grant, during a ceremony to present a service dog to her family at the Moorings Country Club on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, in Naples. A service dog was presented to the family of the 11-year-old who was paralyzed in a car accident and sustained a traumatic brain injury.
  • David Albers/Staff - Santa Claus awaits his introduction at a ceremony to present a PAWS service dog to a Fort Myers family at the Moorings Country Club on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, in Naples. A service dog from the PAWS program was presented to the family of 11-year-old Hannah Grant who was paralyzed in a car accident and sustained a traumatic brain injury.
  • David Albers/Staff - Guests mingle with service dogs-in-training after a ceremony to present a service dog to a Fort Myers family at the Moorings Country Club on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, in Naples. A service dog was presented to the family of 11-year-old Hannah Grant, who was paralyzed in a car accident and sustained a traumatic brain injury.
  • David Albers/Staff - Naples resident Lisa Lair-Stewart visits with a service dog-in-training after a ceremony to present another PAWS service dog to a Fort Myers family at the Moorings Country Club on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, in Naples. A PAWS service dog was presented to the family of 11-year-old Hannah Grant, who was paralyzed in a car accident and sustained a traumatic brain injury.

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