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The Lycoming County Brotherhood Alliance will celebrate generosity and community service at 5 p.m., May 3 with an awards banquet at the Genetti Hotel.
The Lycoming County Brotherhood Alliance will honor Frank G. Pellegrino, founder and former executive vice president of Primus Technologies, and Ken Sawyer, who has served on the board of directors for the region's American Red Cross, North Central Sight Services and West Branch Sports Hall of Fame with William Pickelner Brotherhood Citation Awards.
Pellegrino, according to a news release, served as president or CEO of numerous businesses in Lycoming and surrounding counties and serves as board president for the Hiawatha, chairman of the Williamsport Municipal Airport Authority and on the boards for the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank, Williamsport YWCA and the Susquehanna Health Foundation. He previously served on Pennsylvania College of Technology's Perkins Planning and Participatory Committee, Bloomsburg University's industrial advisory council for the electronics engineering technology degree program, the boards for the First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania and the Community Arts Center and the governance board for St. John Neumann Regional Academy, among others.
Pellegrino, the news release said, was named the 2022 Philanthropist of the Year by the Central Pennsylvania chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and won the Boy Scouts of America's Distinguished Citizen Award in 2017. He lives in Williamsport.
Sawyer is the play-by-play announcer for Williamsport Area High School and news and sports director for WRAK Radio. He has lent his voice to the Little League World Series Radio Network and is an assistant coach for Little Mountaineer Little League. He has served in a variety of capacities for fundraising campaigns by civic and nonprofit organizations in Lycoming County.
In 2002, Sawyer was honored with Lycoming County United Way's Douglas C. Dickey Humanitarian Award and, in 1989, was honored with the Williamsport Rotary Club's Non-Rotarian of the Year Award. He also has won Best Sports Play-by-Play of the Year from the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters numerous times.
He and his wife, Merlyn Pegg Sawyer, have three children and seven grandchildren.
Additionally, six community members will be presented Unsung Hero Awards. The awards are a new honor by Lycoming County Brotherhood Alliance.
Rick Armstead, Sharon Colt, John and Sue Best, Rebecca Elkins and Hurley Kane are winning Unsung Hero Awards for "their service to the homeless, senior citizens (and) young adults with challenging home situations," according to a news release.
"Their service to others are pure acts of kindness, brotherly love and a genuine concern for mankind," the news release said.
To buy tickets readers can visit the Lycoming County Brotherhood Alliance's website.