| Will Healy named Heywood recipient |
By: COREY BUTLER JR.
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Posted: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 1:58 pm
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This year's Joseph Lee Heywood Award recipient, Will Healy, right, is congratulated by the 2009 winner, Maggie Lee. (News photo by Corey Butler Jr.)
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With standing room only in the Quarterback Club on Wednesday during the lunch hour, Will Healy was announced the 2010 recipient of the Joseph Lee Heywood award.
As people looked on and photos were captured, Healy showed a sign of disbelief on his face when Defeat of Jesse James Day committee general chair Shelley Brady read his name as the winner.
“This a complete surprise,” he said as he posed for photos with DJJD members and last year’s recipient Maggie Lee.
Healy, who has served as Emmaus Church’s pastor for 22 years, gives back to the community service through his authoritative, calming voice and quick wit.
Healy has emceed fundraisers, galas and spelling bees. He has served on the Northfield Area YMCA advisory board, the Northfield Area United Way board of directors and the Northfield Hospital board of directors.
In 2000, he was named Northfield Sertoma Man of the Year.
The award winner is honored each year at a banquet held on the Wednesday night preceding the Defeat of Jesse James Days festival in September. The award is named for the First National Bank employee shot by robbers during a raid on Sept. 7, 1876.
The Heywood Recipient Committee for the Joseph Lee Heywood Distinguished Service Award is made up of members of the Defeat of Jesse James Days Celebration Committee and other members of the community. The committee has, over the past 27 years, picked recipients that have represented the “Mission Statement” of the committee and of the award.
Their Mission Statement is “to honor a Northfield citizen who we feel exemplifies the commitment to public service, which Heywood lived. It is an award which reminds us of our past and our promise to improve ourselves, and our community for the future. An award each of us would someday hope to be considered worthy of receiving.”
— Corey Butler Jr. |
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GREAT choice!!!! Congratulations, Will!!!!
How fun with this banquet be!!!???
I'm wondering who can possibly roast this guy as well as he roasts others???? It's a tall order, literally. :)
I thank God for Pastor Will all the time, it's wondeful to see Northfield grateful for his guidance, example and wit too!
There is No better choice for this award.
Congratulations Pastor Will, see you in church!