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The Rotary Club of Haverhill honors three veterans who continue to serve their communities through volunteerism and the Club’s Service Award recipient early in November.
The Ninth Annual Veterans Awards Breakfast honors Haverhill Firefighter Tim Carroll, David Triplett and Carl Turner. Rotary Club member and program chair Kathy Fitts discussed the upcoming event recently on WHAV’s “Win for Breakfast” program. She explained the breakfast honors those who served in the military, but also continue serve the community, living the Rotary motto “Service Above Self.”
Carroll, for example, volunteers with the Junior Haverhill Hillies football program, while Triplett gives his time as commandant of the Haverhill Marine Corps League, a nonprofit that supports veterans, and the Haverhill High School Junior ROTC program and Turner volunteers with Team Haverhill’s Clean & Green Neighborhoods, Ruth’s House and Whittier Birthplace, where he is helping develop walking trails.
Rotary’s Service Award goes to Maureen Healy, who has collected more than 1,000 pairs of socks for veterans, organized a lunch for female veterans and makes and sells Christmas stockings for veterans in need.
The keynote speaker is state Veterans Services Deputy Director Andrea Gayle-Bennett. Fitts described her work.
“She is a retired brigadier general in the Mass. National Guard and she is someone who has spent her career in medicine. She’s retired from being a physician’s assistant in the Harvard Vanguard System, but she brings obviously both military and medical experience to the job. As everyone remembers the difficulty the Veterans Home had during COVID, the critical need for our veterans is health care, and I think she is recognized as a wonderful deputy director of the Executive Office of Veteran Services,” she said.
The Haverhill Rotary Club’s Ninth Annual Veterans Awards Breakfast takes place Thursday, Nov. 7, from 7:30-9:30 a.m. at Haverhill Country Club, 58 Brickett Lane, Haverhill. Tickets are $50 per person, with a table of 10 for $500, and available online at GiveButter.com/VetBreakfast2024.
Proceeds benefit charities supported by the Haverhill Rotary Club.