PEPPER PIKE, Ohio – Andres Chavez never had the opportunity to meet his grandfather, labor leader and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez.

“I was born in January of 1994; he passed away in April of 1993,” Chavez told a crowd of about 200 people who came to hear him speak Thursday (Oct. 16) at the Orange High School auditorium. “So I missed him by nine months.”

But through his efforts as executive director of the National Chavez Center, Andres Chavez works to keep his grandfather’s legacy alive.

The National Chavez Center is a branch of the Cesar Chavez Foundation that preserves and promotes the legacy of Cesar Chavez across the nation.

“The United Farm Workers continue to work on behalf of farm workers,” he said. “They fight for legislative and regulatory victories for them, both at the

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