{"id":58806,"date":"2025-12-12T05:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/58806\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T05:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:25:06","slug":"2025-john-mitchell-memorial-man-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/58806\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 John Mitchell Memorial Man of the Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Lackawanna County Commissioner Patrick O\u2019Malley received\u00a0the John Mitchell Memorial Man of the Year Award on John Mitchell Day in October at the memorial service celebrating the impact of the late John Mitchell, former president of the United Mine Workers of America. O\u2019Malley was honored for his union involvement. He is a former member of the Teamsters Local 229, AFSCME, and the Scranton Federation of Teachers and is a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 81. The John Mitchell Memorial Service was made possible by the Ancient Order of Hibernians Paul \u201cHook\u201d O\u2019Malley Division Four. From left: Jerry Murray, Mark McDade, Rob Fletcher, Joseph Hosie, past president of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Ancient Order of Hibernians, John Mitchell Man of the Year recipient Patrick O\u2019Malley, Bob McAndrew, Kevin Donovan, Joseph Holland, John Fletcher and Mike Robinson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Lackawanna County Commissioner Patrick O\u2019Malley received\u00a0the John Mitchell Memorial Man of the Year Award on John Mitchell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[524,201,182,28,727,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-58806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-community","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-photos-and-videos","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}