Northfield Rotary Club

Friends of the Library celebrated their 25th anniversary and held their second annual Adult Spelling Bee fundraiser last week at The Grand.

The Northfield Rotary team of Ed Lufkin, Richard Collman, and Michael Lane and were runner-ups. Click the photos to enlarge and see the Locally Grown photo album of the event.

A variety of yard games were part of the festivities at the Summer Social on Thursday night. I snapped a series of photos of Pastor Clay Oglesbee, the most prolific blogger in southeast Northfield (see his Soul to Sole blog), in the heat of competition. Click photos to enlarge.

• Photo 1: the manly way to get psyched up for the softball toss. He was 0 for 3.
• Photo 2: the correct form for the peanut toss. He was 0 for 7.
• Photo 3: the beanbag toss. Denied at 5 and 3 yards, he took aim from 12 inches. Denied.
• Photo 4: Clay’s wife, Mary Lynn, enjoyed great success at the peanut toss. Clay’s facial reaction to her success is obscured in the photo by her hand. Sooo…
• Photo 5: I digitally removed her hand from the previous photo and zoomed in to reveal his face. You be the judge.

“What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

Clay recovered nicely from his personal debacle, and later was able to insert his spirited face into this photo of Kris and Rick Estenson.

Rotarian Anne Bretts posted this to the Northfield.org blog earlier this week.

Each year the Northfield Rotary Club honors one person with the “Marston Headley Service Above Self Award.” This year Peggy Prowe took the honor. Pete Stolley and Charlie Cogan are shown here as they made the presentation at Thursday’s weekly meeting.

I met Peggy through her work on the Mill Towns Trail . In fact, we met as she arrived on her bike for a meeting at City Hall. But Peggy has a long, rich history of service to the community. Charlie did a great job of telling her story, so I asked him to send along his speech:

The Service Above Self Award was started by Rotary International about thirty years ago and here in Northfield in 1988. About ten years ago, the local award was renamed “The Marston Headley Service Above Self Award”. Many members of the Northfield Rotary Club have had the pleasure of knowing Marston personally as a long-time member of our club, a past club president and the secretary for many years. He is still remembered for his many contributions to the Northfield community. The award is given each year to a member of the club who has given of her/his time and energy to make this club a success and also for strong involvement in the community. This year, there were several very strong candidates for the award, but after extensive deliberations, the committee has chosen Ms. Peggy Prowe.

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