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Our congratulations go out to club member Pat Carey and to his real estate partner Jim Guarrera as well as Terry Jones on being named winners of Valley United Way’s Charles H. Flynn Award, the Valley’s oldest and most prestigious award for community service. The trio will be honored at […]

Rotarian to be Given Community Service Award

May 7, 2024 in News (updated on May 7, 2024)

The Derby-Shelton Rotary Club is proud to announce that they were able to donate $2,000 to the Derby Police Department. The money was from proceeds raised from the 2023 2nd Annual Derby-Shelton Rotary Club Flags for Heroes program. Over 300 flags were sponsored and flown on the Derby Green and […]

Rotary Flags for Heroes Program donates to the Heroes of ...

April 5, 2024 in events / Grants / News

Derby-Shelton Rotarians celebrated their 2024 Norman K. Parsells Award winner, Dr. Jeff Forte, along with winners from eight other Rotary Clubs on April 5 at the Gaelic American Club in Fairfield. The award honors the memory of Mr. Parsells who was a distinguished member of the Fairfield Rotary Club who […]

Dr. Jeff Forte Named Parsells Award Winner

April 5, 2024 in events / News

4-Way Speaker Contest — Savannah Harold of Derby High School from Derby High School will move on representing the Derby-Shelton Rotary Club in the District competition. Savannah did a great job with her speech content. Her focus was on the danger of distractions while driving and how that fits into Rotary’s Four-Way Test. Some […]

Savannah Harold Advances in Four Way Speech Contest

March 18, 2024 in News / Speech Contest

Painting for Polio! On March 1, President Kim Caro-Ryan hosted a paint and sip night at the Courtyard Marriott in Shelton. 55 attendees painted, sipped, and laughed as they raised $2,000.00 towards the Polio Plus Foundation. Did you know that in 1978 Rotary presented the World Health Organization with $4 […]

Paint Party Raises $2,000 to Fight Polio

February 3, 2024 in events / News (updated on March 4, 2024)

The Derby-Shelton Rotary Club delivered 116 five-gallon buckets of a sand and salt mixture to seniors over 67 years old and to disabled individuals residing in Derby and Shelton between November 30th and December 3rd. Past President Linda Homes-Hanno who institued the successful program back in 2008 served as this […]

Salt & Sand for Seniors 2023 Delivered to 116 seniors

November 30, 2023 in events / News tagged Sand (updated on November 30, 2023)

Since 2004, Liberty Bank Foundation, partnering with Rotary Clubs across Connecticut, have raised over $4 million to ensure all families in our community can enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner. Derby-Shelton Rotary Club has been part of the effort since 2016. Each Rotary Club will receive funds donated along with matching funds […]

Shelton-Derby Rotary / Liberty Bank Thanksgiving Food Drive Raises $17,742.50

November 20, 2023 in Foundation / News (updated on December 21, 2023)

Derby-Shelton Rotary kept up a long-standing tradition over the last few weeks by visiting all the third-grade classrooms in the public and private schools in Derby and Shelton to deliver a special gift to all of the students. That gift was their very own dictionary. The following schools received a […]

Rotary distributes over 500 dictionaries

November 9, 2023 in News / Program / Reading (updated on November 9, 2023)

Today, September 21, Derby-Shelton Rotary celebrated a major Rotary milestone by one of its members that very few achieve. Troy Adcox who served as Club President for 1978-1979, but he officially joined the Rotary way back on September 1, 1973, making September his 50th anniversary in Rotary!! Troy S. Adcox […]

A Very Special Milestone for a Very Special Member

September 21, 2023 in News (updated on September 21, 2023)