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Peggy Neilsen, supervisor of Weber County school nurses, tends to Riverdale Elementary School student Zach Dilley, who skinned his knee on the playground. Neilsen has been honored as the 2000 Utah School Nurse of the Year, awarded by the Utah School Nurse Association. Neilsen, who works at five Weber schools, was instrumental in developing and locating funds to offer hepatitis B vaccines to thousands of district children. She is a member of the Northern Utah Immunize By Two committee, Utah and national school nurse associations and the Weber State University Advisory Board. Four of her six children have followed in her footsteps and sought careers in medicine.