Rotary District 7980 successfully applied to The Rotary Foundation for a $25,000 Disaster Relief Grant for Food Insecurity.  Through the efforts of District Rotary Foundation Chair Ron Webb, the district identified the expertise of TEAM, Inc. to be the recipient of the grant.  John Monteleone, PE of the Tribury Club, […]

District 7980 Provided Food Security Relief

Derby-Shelton Rotarians are very busy distributing dictionaries to every third grader to public and parochial schools in Derby and Shelton as they have been doing since 2003. We’re checking for previous numbers, but Kim Ryan Caro who chairs the program reports that we have distributed an average of 504 dictionaries […]

Rotarians Delivering Dictionaries

  Derby-Shelton Rotarians have made a generous donation to Ruth’s House to help pay for needed renovations to their new home. Ruth’s House is a recently opened loving home for young single mothers that encourages and equips them to make positive changes in their lives, care for their children, and build […]

Rotary Supports Ruth’s House

The Derby-Shelton Rotary club is at it again helping to make for a warm and fashionable winter for some of the children at TEAM, Inc. This year that means that 72 children will be receiving brand new winter coats just as the temperature starts to drop. The Derby-Shelton Rotary Club […]

Rotary Brings “Warmth” to Young Children

Liberty-Rotary Thanksgiving food drive
Derby-Shelton Rotary will once again be participating with other Rotary Clubs and Liberty Bank in the Thanksgiving Dinner Drive. The drive started on October 1 and extends until November 18. The Liberty bank Foundation will contribute 25 cents for every dollar donated up to a total of $200,000. Derby-Shelton Rotary […]

Rotary/Liberty Bank Set Thanksgiving Dinner Drive

The weather was perfect for Shelton Day 2024, and we’ve got lots of pictures of our vendors to share. However, we want to start with a major Thank You to our generous sponsors shown below. We’ve added vendor pictures, but without our sponsors, the event would not be possible. And […]

Thank you to all who made Shelton Day successful

August fellowship meeting encourages Rotarians to share those special experiences that stand out as their “Rotary Moment.” Sharing these personal stories can go much farther, sometimes, than facts and figures in attracting prospective members. The ask, share your Rotary moment! What was the success story that transformed you from being […]

Rotarians Will be Sharing Special “Moments”

Barbara demonstrating Morse code
Betsey Doane and her sister Barbara Lombardi were on hand this past week to assist the Meriden Amateur Radio Club to promote the hobby of amateur radio to a special group of veterans at the Wallingford Office of Emergency Management. Betsey is a past president at Derby-Shelton Rotary and Barbara […]

Vets Learn About Amateur Radio

You never know what you will find Rotarians doing for their community, but Derby-Shelton Rotarians have taken on a new challenge – adopting a street! This month, the Club signed on to become part of the Adopt a Street program which is part of a bigger “Don’t Trash Shelton” initiative […]

Rotary Adopts Road – and Cleans It!