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LI businesswoman honored by Obama
WASHINGTON - In 1992, Teresa Ward of Rocky Point began cleaning homes because, she said, she is "a compulsive cleaner."
The next year she turned her passion into a business.
And Tuesday, 16 years later, Ward was recognized by President Barack Obama as New York's small-business person of the year for 2009, an honor awarded by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Ward, 51,...
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