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Register of Wills D. Bruce Hanes Wins Coveted Mustache Award

The Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year award was presented at a 'Stache Bash in Pittsburgh.

Written by Community Editor Nicole Foulke

Montgomery County Register of Wills D. Bruce Hanes was recently recognized at the non-partisan American Mustache Institute’s (AMI) ‘Stache Bash 2013 on Oct. 26, where he and David Stine of St. Louis, an award-winning wood craftsman, shared a win for the Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year, according to AMI’s blog

About 800 people attended the bash, held in Pittsburgh, where Hanes and Stine were celebrated as the award’s first co-winners.

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“I am honored and humbled to be chosen as one of the Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached Americans of the Year,” said Hanes, in the blog post. “I’m proud to live in a country where I can share the same rights and privileges as my clean shaven fellow citizens. All the nominees are fine examples of hirsute American altruism, and as AMI understands, it’s not about the mustache alone but what you do with the mustache.”

Hanes is also know for his announcement in July that his office would issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples; they issued 174 such licenses until Sept. 12, when he was ordered to stop by the Commonwealth court. Hanes is appealing.

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The popular Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year celebrates its sixth year. According to AMI the award to “the person who is deemed to best represent the Mustached American community.”

This year the bash will help the Pittsburgh-area organization Steps to Independence that helps educates children who have motor disabilities. 

 


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