Retired Priest Given Rotary's Top Honor
Rev. Louis Bourgeois, known to almost everyone as "Father B," was honored on Friday for his 17 years in Hamilton before retiring last year.
The Hamilton-Wenham Rotary Club honored Rev. Louis Bourgeois with its highest honor on Friday for his nearly two decades of service to the community. Bourgeois, in turn, said it was the Rotary that helped welcome him to Hamilton when he arrived in 1993. Bourgeois, known affectionately as “Father B,” retired last June from the Church of Saint Paul in Hamilton. At the local Rotary club’s morning meeting at the Community House, Bourgeois was given the Paul Harris award. “It’s the biggest award Rotary can award anyone,” said Rotarian Harry Weinstein. He was given a Harris medal, certificate of recognition as a Paul Harris fellow and a lapel pin. The Hamilton-Wenham Rotary Club typically gives out the Harris award two to three times per year. “…
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