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This is part of a series MVPs of summer which chronicles the people who make summer happen.
MANSFIELD – Rachel Shapiro and Emma Swain love working with kids and see part of their counselor jobs as creating special memories for their campers.
Shapiro and Swain work at the Mansfield Parks & Recreation Summer Camp at Memorial Park. About 80 campers a week take part in the program, which runs until Aug. 20.
Shapiro, 18, has been coming to the Mansfield camp since she was 5 years old. This is her second year as a counselor.
“I’ve been going to this camp for so long (becoming a counselor) was the next step,” she said. “This camp is kind of like my home.”
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She will replace Stephen Dockray, who is retiring on June 30.
The School Committee voted unanimously in favor of Maguire, a Carver resident, according to a press release. Maguire was most recently director of career pathways and integrated learning and engagement at Southeastern Regional Vocational Technical High School in South Easton, where she also served as vice principal.
Prior to that, Maguire was a teacher at both vocational and traditional high schools.
Maguire is a graduate of South Shore Regional Vocational Technical High School in Hanover, then earned a bachelor of science degree in teacher education from Johnson and Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island, and a master s in education leadership from Fitchburg State College.
WEST BRIDGEWATER It was June 2, 2020, when Jennifer Tosches became a single mother.
Her husband of nearly a decade, John, died from a heart attack at the age of 48. Losing him was absolutely devastating and a lot to deal with on top of her fight with breast cancer, but Tosches did the best she could, said Alison Conroy, her friend who lives in Bridgewater. I think she survived the most she could because she did it for the boys,” Conroy said. “I think she would say, John would have wanted me to do what I can as best I can. ”