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Yearly Archives: 2025

Derby-Shelton Rotarians have made it an annual habit to assist in the education of all third graders in Derby and Shelton since 2003. Each year members of the club take time to visit each of the public and private grammar schools in the two towns and present each of the […]

Dictionaries Delivered

December 4, 2025 in Dictionaries / Program (updated on December 4, 2025)

Since 2008, Derby-Shelton Rotarians (and friends) have taken pleasure in delivering buckets of sand to seniors in Derby and Shelton in advance of upcoming winter storms. This year, the Club is delivering 100 buckets to those in the two towns who have requested the buckets to help give their porches, […]

Rotarians Delivering Sand for Seniors

December 4, 2025 in News / Sand of Seniors (updated on December 4, 2025)

The Derby-Shelton Rotary Club is proud to have supported an important accessibility improvement project for the American Legion Sutter-Terlizzi Post 16, located on Bridgeport Avenue in Shelton. The American Legion is the nation’s largest veteran service organization, founded by an Act of Congress after World War I. For over a […]

Rotarians Assist Veterans with New Railings

November 12, 2025 in events / Grants (updated on December 5, 2025)

The Derby-Shelton Rotary Club took time at its meeting on October 30 to recognize a remarkable achievement, Steve Balog’s 50 years of service to the Club! Steve officially joined the club back on November 1, 1975. He is still a very active and involved club member and has served in […]

Rotarians Honor Steve Balog’s 50 Years in Rotary

October 30, 2025 in Awards / News (updated on October 30, 2025)

Few Derby-Shelton Rotary projects bring more smiles to faces of children than the annual distribution of attractive winter coats to children enrolled in the early childhood programs run by TEAM, Inc. This year the club donated 72 coats to children participating in Team’s programs. The Club has been doing this […]

Project Warmth Brings Warmth and Smiles

October 20, 2025 in Operation Warm (updated on October 20, 2025)

For decades Derby and Shelton High Schools played each other in football and continuously on Thanksgiving from 1922 to 2019. And for most of those years the Derby Shelton Rotary Club hosted the senior members of the football team – and later the cheerleaders at a Thanksgiving luncheon as couple […]

Rotarians Host Derby and Shelton Seniors

October 16, 2025 in Football luncheon (updated on October 16, 2025)

Thank you to our sponsors, vendors, and attendees. We’re looking forward to seeing everyone again on October 4, 2026! Shelton Day 2025 will be held at Veterans Memorial Park, and we’re excited to continue the tradition of bringing our community together! We’ve had some great planning meetings with key supporters—Eric McPherson, Benjamin Perry […]

Shelton Day 2025: A Community Celebration at Veterans Park with ...

August 11, 2025 in events / Shelton Day (updated on October 6, 2025)

Members of the Derby Fire Department are enjoying the benefits of new safety equipment after Linda Holems-Hannon and other members of the Rotary Club were on hand to present each of the four Derby firehouses with a handheld Thermal Imaging Device. Firefighters can use the small hand-held devices to gain […]

Firefighters Receive Thermal Imaging Devices from Derby-Shelton Rotary

August 2, 2025 in Uncategorized

The Derby-Shelton Rotary Club celebrated a very successful year under the direction of President Lucy Andrade and passed the mantle of leadership for the 2024-2026 Rotary year at its Gavel Gala at Brownson County Club on June 26. Ernie Luise led five other past presidents in praising Lucy’s leadership, enthusiasm, […]

The Torch is Passed

July 3, 2025 in Uncategorized (updated on July 3, 2025)