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Living Out Loud: Melissa Vinyard celebrates recovery while helping others through her job at UConnectCare
Energetic and personable, with a warm sense of humor and jovial laugh, Melissa Vinyard is only half joking when she tells people that she was “predisposed to be an alcoholic with a last name like Vinyard.” That’s because the 57-year-old Batavia resident …