This year’s Earth Day Service, organized by the Green Sanctuary Committee, will be held on Sunday, April 19. For this service, we have been able to engage a prominent speaker: local attorney and long-time Select Board member Osler “Pete” Peterson.

Mr. Peterson is the recipient of many honors by the legal profession, as well as a leading community builder. In Medfield alone, he has served on the Select Board without interruption since 2000 (including seven one-year terms as chair), on the Medfield Zoning Board of Appeals, and on the board of the Medfield Foundation, of which he is a co-founder. He also ran Medfield Day four times and started/directed the Medfield Night Fireworks (2001-2009). Beyond Medfield, he has served as a trustee of Lasell University in Newton and of Lasell Village, a Continuing Care Retirement Community, where he chaired the board during both its planning and construction – and where “Pete’s,” the Store at Lasell Village, was named and dedicated in his honor in June 2000. He has also been Director, Clerk, and President at Riverside Community Care in Dedham, a community mental health agency, and a Director at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Needham.

In his role as a member of the Medfield Select Board, Pete has been a tireless advocate of green climate policies. On April 19, he will speak to us about his experiences as a member of Medfield’s Energy Committee and about the climate issues and challenges faced by Medfield and similar towns in our area.

Do join us and bring your friends! Zoom access here.