OCCHA honors Shorty Navarro

BOARDMAN — About 350 people attendedOrganización Civica y Cultural Hispana Americana Inc.'s 36th annual dinner and fund-raiser tonight at Mr. Anthony’s on South Ave.

A highlight of the evening was recognition of honorary chairman, Shorty Navarro, an OCCHA board member and president of Stadium Auto Group that includes Stadium Lincoln Mercury, Mazda, Stadium Chevy-Cadillac, Stadium Volkswagen and Stadium Buick-Pontiac, GMA, who has been in the automotive industry some 45 years.

Navarro, who was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico, came to the United States with his parents in March 1951, when he was 14. He was the oldest of 11 children.

Navarro first worked as a gas station attendant on Wilson Avenue, which he bought when he was 16, with his father as co-signer. At the time, he was a student at East High School.

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