NATIONAL AWARD Mexican president to honor volunteer from the Valley

The GM worker will travel to Mexico City to pick up his award.
YOUNGSTOWN -- Armando Labra Hernandez of Canfield will be awarded a National Voluntary Award by President Vicente Fox of Mexico.
The award is given by the Asociacion Mexicana de Voluntarios AC, a national organization that promotes voluntarism in Mexico and through Mexican expatriates around the world.
Labra, of Youngstown-Salem Road, will get his award in Mexico City on Dec. 6.
Labra is being cited for his leadership in the Mahoning Valley as president of the 67-year-old Sociedad Mutualista Mexicana of Youngstown. He gets an honorable mention as the adult male volunteer of the year.
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"I am honored to receive such an important national award from my home country of Mexico. To stand before the president of Mexico and receive this volunteer award will be a great joy for me," he said.
He works at the General Motors fabricating plant in Lordstown, is a member of United Auto Workers Local 1714 and is a member of Sta. Rosa de Lima Parish in Youngstown. He is married to Christina Labra. His children are Adrian, Cristian, David and Victor.
He thanked his wife, children, family members and friends. "I especially want to thank the Mexican Mutual Society Club of Youngstown for enabling me to become its president and for all its hard work," he said.
Labra also thanked other organizations that have made the work of the Mexican community better known: ACTION, the Gamaliel Foundation and Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Youngstown.
"The Way Station, Midway Mennonite, Greenford Christian Church and OCCHA are a few of the many parishes and groups that have welcomed me and our Mexican community here in Mahoning County," he said.