Mazzoni, Linn lauded for efforts
PENN TWP — Bruce Mazzoni and Jennifer Linn now are part of the unique club of Distinguished Service Award recipients.
Both were honored Wednesday evening at the Butler Country Club.
The awards, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Butler and the Butler Eagle, are given annually to a senior recipient and a junior recipient for their community service.
Linn of Butler, the junior winner, thanked her family for years of support.
“It is truly an award that should go to my parents,” Linn said.
She said her parents established three things, what she called the three Ws of raising children: worry, wisdom and, most importantly, work ethic.
“They taught me to give back to the community,” Linn said.
She said her mother always was volunteering and her father always was out at township and church meetings. She thanked them for doing so much for her.
Linn owns the law firm Jennifer R. Linn and Associates in Butler and has been involved with the Rotary Club of Butler for 10 years.
She was president of the club in 2007-08. From 2008 through 2012, she was assistant governor to Rotary District 7280.
Linn is the vice president and treasurer for the Butler Rotary Foundation and co-chairman for its annual Rotary Turkey Roundup, which provides food vouchers to needy families during the holiday season. She also is co-chairman for the Butler Rotary Foundation's annual Sporting Clay Shoot.
She also is on the Butler County Community College board of trustees.
Linn formerly was on the board of directors for the Community Health Clinic of Butler County and the board of directors for Butler County Against Heroin.
She was active in the early years of Butler County's Stand Tall Drug Awareness and Prevention Program.Most recently, she has been legal council to the Dunbar Community Center board.She said she is lucky to live in a community that recognizes the value of giving back.Mazzoni, the senior winner, is the first Cranberry Township resident to receive the award.“Truly, it's an honor,” he said.Mazzoni became heavily involved in the community when he retired early at age 42 to spend more time with his family.He served on the board of directors for the Cranberry Public Library, and worked to keep it open on Sundays. He also got involved with the Butler County Federated Library System to keep the Bookmobile operating.Mazzoni has been a township supervisor since 2005, and he currently is the chairman.He is the treasurer of the Cranberry Township Community Chest, and is the chairman of its Project of the Year initiative, of which there have been four. Mazzoni also serves on the Butler County Community College board of trustees.Mazzoni also is the chairman of Cranberry Township Community Days, which attracts 25,000 to 30,000 people annually.
He said people often ask what drives him.“I just say I enjoy what I'm doing,” Mazzoni said.He thanked township staff and officials, and the volunteers who work on community projects. He noted that the CTCC's logo says “building community.”“That's what I'm most proud of. Helping people build a connection. That sense of community where anything is possible,” Mazzoni said.Event emcee Ron Vodenichar, general manager and co-publisher of the Butler Eagle and a past DSA winner, said it always is good to hear about the winners' accomplishments and that he is proud to say that he is friends with Linn and Mazzoni.“You guys are amazing,” Vodenichar said.This was the 65th year the awards have been presented.
