Mayor Williams wins prestigious award


November 7, 2007 at 7:50p.m.

Mayor Williams wins prestigious award

YOUNGSTOWN — Mayor Jay Williams said winning a prestigious honor from The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and Harvard’s Institute of Politics is “more humbling than anything else.”

Williams was selected as one of two winners of the New Frontier Award primarily for spearheading the Youngstown 2010 revitalization plan that increased funding to demolish vacant and dilapidated buildings and economic development in an attempt to revitalize the city.

“From a young child it was instilled in me that serving others is not to be viewed as a burden, but rather something to which we should aspire,” Williams said today during an awards ceremony in Boston at the Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

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