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03-22-2011, 03:40 PM
President Leonel Fernandez received a congressional delegation and the worldwide director of the Peace Corps, Aaron Williams and the US ambassador Raul Yzaguirre. The congressional delegation and the Peace Corps director were part of the ceremonies celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps, set up by John F. Kennedy in 1961.

Aaron Williams was a volunteer in the Dominican Republic serving in Monte Plata where he met his wife, and he also spent a year teaching at the PUCMM in Santiago.

Others on the congressional delegation received by President Fernandez were senator Patrick Leahy, Kent Conrad along with representatives Peter Welch, Xavier Becerra, as well as Tim Riese, Sara Garland, Roger Pena and Suzie Carroll, Timothy Fitzgibbons and Romeo Massey.

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