Derby-Shelton Rotarians Celebrate the Holidays
Click here to hear the Rotarians wishes for the season At the last meeting of the year, Derby-Shelton Rotarians paused from a very busy season of community activities to celebrate each other at their annual holiday luncheon and gift exchange. Santa agrees that the Rotarians have been very good boys […]

Rotarians Pause for the Holidays

Just in time for the first warning signs of winter snow, Derby-Shelton Rotarians spent the day loading buckets of sand and slat to be delivered to senior citizens in Deby and Shelton. This annual project under the direction of Kim Caro is a time consuming and physically challenging event for […]

Sand Arrives Just in Time for Seniors

    Rotary President Lucy Andrade presented a check to Literacy Volunteers of Greater New Haven to help foster their work in the Valley area. The grant was funded jointly by Derby-Shelton Rotary and District 7980’s District Managed Grant program. The funds are going to be used to purchase textbooks […]

Grant Addresses Literacy in the Valley

The Rotary Foundation transforms our gifts into service projects that change lives both close to home and around the world.  Contributions to The Rotary Foundation are essential to securing and growing Rotary programs that improve lives and create a better world to support our peace efforts and end polio forever.   […]

Derby-Shelton Rotary Earns Foundation Honors

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