Concord Snapshot: Hats for Habitat for Humanity

Wearing funny hats for charity was the order of the day at a recent Concord Rotary Club meeting.

The brainchild of Rotarian Sharon Spaulding, members came in with elaborately decorated hats, and formed a conga line before a group of three judges who selected several categories of winners.

The judges were all past Rotary presidents.

The brothers McWalter won; Dave for having the most nostalgic hat. He wore a Davy Crockett-inspired coonskin cap. Brother Robert grabbed a cloth napkin from his place-setting and arranged it around his head. He won for having the most creative, "sporting a tablecloth," the judges noted.

The most annoying hat prize went to President Ann Trudeau who had a military-style helmet, and the best overall hat prize went to Helen Halloran who wore a heavily decorated flower pot hat. She is in the floral business.

Trudeau got the hat-wearers on their feet to strut past the judges. Each person that wore a hat gave $10 to Habitat for Humanity; those that forgot paid $1.