The Upper Ohio Valley Italian Heritage Festival is about many things - food, family and fireworks certainly among them - but it's also about giving young people a leg up for their future.

Though preparation for the three-day extravaganza set for July 27-29 at Wheeling's Heritage Port is well under way, event organizers paused Monday for a special reception to recognize their annual scholarship winners and the 2014 Italian-American of the Year, former festival chairman Robert Gaudio.

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