Debbie Delgado-Vega Receives THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC SERVICE JEFFERSON AWARDS - Sponsored by Radio Unica- WWRU 1660 AM

Historically, in 1972, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Senator Robert Taft, Jr. and Sam Beard founded the American Institute for Public Service (AIPS), to establish a Nobel Prize for public and community service.

The Jefferson Awards are presented on two levels: national and local.

National award recipients represent a "Who's Who" of outstanding Americans. Winners included three Supreme Court Justices, eight U.S. Senators, six Secretaries of State, ten Cabinet Officers and three former First Ladies. On the local level, Jefferson Award recipients are ordinary people who do extraordinary things without expectation of recognition or reward. To help us identify and celebrate these "Unsung Heroes," in 1977, the Institute developed a partnership with media sponsors, local newspapers and television stations.

This is where Radio Unica the world's largest radio and sports network) entered into a Historic partnership with AIPS. For the first time in the awards' 30 year history, AIPS and Radio Unica reached out on a massive scale to recognize the contributions of 5 outstanding Hispanic Americans.

LOLA is extremely proud to announce that our founder Debbie Delgado-Vega was one of the five chosen Hispanic American winners ever to receive the prestigious Jefferson Award, joined by: Lourdes and

Frank Valladares, Father Richard Estrada, Mercedes E. Alejandro and Caridad Asensio, who have all demonstrated quality leadership. The highlight of this spectacular event was when our very own New York State Senator, Honorable Hilary Rodham Clinton, presented Mrs. Debbie Delgado-Vega with the Jefferson Award certificate on June 19 in the United States Supreme Court along with Radio Unica Chairman and CEO Joaquin Blaya.

In that spirit, the celebration continued on July 10 in the Salon Mexico restaurant where Radio Unica's NYC Vice President's Alejandro Sanchez Sobrino and Ms. Adrinana Grillet, held a private luncheon to honor Debbie with the actual Bronze Medal signed by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Senator Robert Taft, Jr. and Sam Beard, along with the United States Congress Seal Honorary Flag and a New York City Citation by Assemblyman Felix Ortiz. For more information on AIPS, visit their website at www.aips.com

Congratulations Debbie!