Club President Betsey Doane and Linda Holmes Hannon presented a $700 check to Milt Harrigan to help support the American Legion’s prestigious Boys State Program this year. The program for those entering their senior year of high school is a mock-government. This year’s program will be held at the University […]

Rotary Supports American Legion’s Boys State Program

Diane Stroman
Diane Stroman was the Derby-Shelton Rotary president during the 2010-2011 year, but her community leadership started long before that and continues today. At the moment, she is experiencing a health issue that requires community support as you can see below. Please help Diane, by spreading the word and wishing her […]

Former Rotary President Needs Help

New members - Tina and Matt
The Club was pleased to induct two new members at our meeting on Feb. 23. Tina Cerrone and Matt McGee were introduced by their sponsors Kate Marks and JoAnn Shapiro. Assistant District Governor Jen Champagned served as the MC and she spoke about Rotary generally and then invited those attending […]

New Members Join Rotary

Derby-Shelton Rotary Club celebrated its annual Christmas/Holiday luncheon but also shared some special announcements and awards prior to sitting down to a special meal and the return of the famous “Yankee Auction” gift exchange. In addition to the awards, the club also elected Lucy Andrade as President-Elect, Joanne Shapiro as […]

Rotary Celebrates Holidays With Announcements, Awards and Gifts

In a continuing Derby-Shelton Rotary tradition for the holidays, volunteers are distributing over 100 buckets of a sand/salt mixture for use by seniors in Derby and Shelton this winter. With the first accumulating snowfall of the winter slated for this weekend, the timing is perfect! These volunteers distributed the buckets […]

Rotarians Distribute Sand for Seniors

Rotarians continue to be busy doing good works throughout this holiday season. This week it was collecting toys for TEAM, Inc’s. annual Toys 4 Kids program. The toys were collected at this week’s meeting and delivered to TEAM’s “toy shop” in time for distribution to needy Valley children prior to […]

Collecting Toys for Kids

The Thanksgiving luncheon for Derby-Shelton Rotary was a very thankful one this year as there was plenty of good news to share during the weekly meeting featuring a special Thanksgiving meal and lots of good news. Liberty Bank Thanksgiving Fundraiser Tom Wilson kicked off the meeting with some good news […]

Derby-Shelton Rotary Has a Lot to be Thankful for this ...

The Derby-Shelton Rotary Club will once again be joining with more than forty other clubs in the annual Liberty Bank/Rotary Club Thanksgiving Drive to provide Thanksgiving food for families in need within each Rotary Club’s local community. The Liberty Bank Foundation will add 25 cents for every dollar donated, up […]

Rotary Participating in Liberty Bank Thanksgiving Drive