It’s officially 30 years since the Northfield Rotary established its holiday dinner to honor and celebrate our senior citizens, this year’s dinner is next Wednesday, December 7. All local seniors are invited to this community event, which includes musical entertainment as well as its traditional Christmas dinner, with home-cooked turkey and all the fixings. There is no charge.
Dinner will begin at 6 p.m. at the elementary school, and festivities will end at 8 p.m. Santa and Mrs. Claus are expected to make an appearance as well.
An RSVP is requested as early as possible, and no later than December 2 – but no one is turned away for forgetting to reserve a spot. The Senior Center (485-8112) will be maintaining the RSVP list. Transportation is available by pre-reservation. The request should be made at the time of the RSVP.
The Rotary's senior citizen Christmas dinner has been an annual event since 1986, when Ed Gadbois first organized it. Rotarian Neil Murray later ran the event for 20 consecutive years.The dinner still features turkey roasted on site in the kitchen; Rotary volunteers also prepare the stuffing, gravy and rest of the dinner. Volunteer elves join in serving the tables. They are students from the Norwich Rotaract Club and the Northfield Middle High School Interact Club.
More information about the Northfield Rotary is available on its web site, http://northfieldvtrotary.org/