Ken Hall's Citizen of the Year trophy is going straight to the pool room - right next to his wife's.
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Tamworth's number one resident moved to the area five decades ago. Since then Mr Hall has helped provide a free breakfast through Tamworth High School's breakfast club for 20 years, and spent a decade making welfare check phone calls for the Red Cross.
Plus he was District Governor for Rotary International for the region.
"We've adopted Tamworth very much as our place and raised three children here," he said.
"We're not going to go away."
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But he's not the first member of his family to be recognised for work making his adopted city a better place.
His wife, Di Hall, won the gong several years ago for her work on behalf of the town's musical community.
She helped organise Creative Arts in Public Education Regional Spectacular, was musical director of the Regional Band Camp and the region's Department of Education arts coordinating officer.
Mr Hall said there had been no intra-couple rivalry over her award, but it was nice to be on the same level in terms of official recognition.
"We've always been a team, but now we're a different sort of team, we're a team working together for the Tamworth community - not that we always haven't been," he said.
Mr Hall said his decade running the local Red Cross Telecross service had been incredibly rewarding.
"What it really is is just checking in on people who are often very much alone and just making sure that they're okay," he said.
"It's only generally a five minute conversation with them of a morning and the occasional circumstance occurs where something happens to them and we're the first person to be in contact with them because they haven't answered the phone. It's a really good service offered by Red Cross.
"I can relate to one elderly gentleman that didn't answer his phone so [we] contacted his family. They went round and found that he'd fallen into bath and broken his hip. And we were the first people to contact him and actually get him to hospital. He recovered from that. He may not have if he'd been stranded.
"Something as simple as a phone call can mean that elderly people are able to stay in their own homes and I think that's really important."
Tamworth Regional Councillors and Tamworth MP Kevin Anderson issued awards to the new crop of local go-getters at the ceremony in Ray Walsh House council building.