The Family Business Association announced that the Massachusetts Family Business Awards’ highly prestigious “Community Excellence Award” for 2009, goes to the Lafrance Family of Lafrance Hospitality! The award for the philanthropic/community business of the year was presented to the family at the annual awards dinner on October 15th, in Boston, MA. The family prides itself that family and non-family member of the company are community minded, serving on upwards of 30 community boards; and have chaired United Way and other community based capital campaigns, served as presidents of service clubs such as Rotary, Lions and Exchange and annually volunteer hundreds of hours to community projects.