The smoke of the last few days cleared and the weather was spectacular at the Veterans Memorial Park in Shelton as the Derby-Shelton Rotary Club hosted a moving ceremony honoring over 280 Heroes from the local community. Dominic Mantuano served as Master of Ceremony for the second year and wowed […]

Flags for Heroes 2023 Ceremony

At its weekly meeting on June 8, The Derby-Shelton Rotary Club announced the winners of its 2003 scholarships to students from Derby and Shelton High Schools. Over $22,000 in awards were made. This year’s winners are: Scholarship Amount Recipient Derby HS 4 year $8,000 Brennan Fitch – Derby President (Derby) […]

Rotary Announces 2023 Scholarship Winners

Derby-Shelton Rotary Club President Betsey Doane has announced the recipients of the Club’s 2023 Community grants totaling $15,000. Six organizations serving the Valley area as well as two Rotary grants with international implications have been awarded. Four of the organizations were on hand for check presentations at the regular Club […]

2023 Community Grants Announced

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THE DERBY-SHELTON ROTARY CLUB IS PROUD TO PRESENT THE 2nd ANNUAL FLAGS FOR HEROES May 27 – June 15 Raise a flag in honor of your hero! All flags have been installed and tagged with the Hero’s name. They are lined up in alphabetical order at each of the two […]

Flags for Heroes 2023

Kentucky Derby 2023 poster
The Kentucky Derby Watch Party held on Saturday, May 6 at Brownson Country Club was a mashing success. resident-Elect Kim Ryan-Caro who will become president in July and her committee put together the social event of the year to match the goings on in Louisville. High style was very much […]

Kentucky Derby Watch Party Was Spectacular!

Shred 2023 volunteers
Derby-Shelton Rotary’s annual shredding event was held on Saturday, May 13, 2023. For the fourth straight year, the event was held in the parking lot at St. Lawrence Chruch in Shelton from 9 am to noon and was a great success under the leadership of Judy Gulish. As always, all […]

2023 Shredding Event – May 13

Speed Networking logo
The Derby-Shelton Rotary and the Greater Valley Chamber of Commerce and its Women in Networking group partnered on a very successful Speed Networking Event in 2022 and it was so successful that we did it again on May 24th at Bad Sons Beer Co. in Derby. The Rotary Club uses […]

Speed Networking – A Fun Night

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Rotarians have returned to the classroom over the last month to read and donate books to Kindergarten and grades 1, 2 and 3 in Derby Shelton. This is the Club’s annual participation in the Read Across America effort. Though the official day for the event was March 2 this year, […]

Rotarians in the Classroom

  Ernie Luise Judy Gulish Jack Walsh Derby-Shelton Rotarians are very active and play many roles in the community as proven by some recent community recognition for three members who also happen to be past presidents of the Club. On March 19 Ernie Luise and her late husband Nick and […]

Rotarians Receive Community Recognition