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In addition to the tremendous work that the Derby-Shelton Rotary Club does here in Derby and Shelton, the club is part of Rotary International’s good works around the world. The Rotary Foundation is currently offering 130 fully funded fellowships for dedicated leaders from around the world to study at a […]

Rotary International Offers Unique Program of Peace Fellowships

February 4, 2021 in Foundation / News / Program / scholarships (updated on February 4, 2021)

Derby-Shelton Bridge Rendering — Sometimes a small amount of funding can help turn a dream into reality, and that is about to happen for the cities of Derby and Shelton because of a Rotary grant given years ago to the Shelton Economic Development Commission. The state has just announced that the original dream of […]

Rotary Grant Leads to Derby-Shelton Bridge Rehab

February 3, 2021 in Grants / News (updated on February 3, 2021)

Derby-Shelton Rotarians continued their work on COVID-19 issues with another delivery of protective masks to the community and this time there is a special emphasis on children. The Club has distributed 1,500 colorful children’s masks to the Boys & Girls Club, Boy Scouts of the Housatonic Council, BHCare which includes […]

Rotarians Distribute Children’s Masks

January 22, 2021 in Grants / News

Sand-for-Seniors- — Derby-Shelton Rotarians have been quite busy filling buckets of sand/salt and distributing them to senior citizens in Derby and Shelton. This year was a new record with over 140 buckets distributed in the two towns. Kim Ryan-Caro did another incredible job in coordinating the project. She worked with senior centers […]

Sand for Seniors 2020

December 3, 2020 in News / Program (updated on December 9, 2020)

For the fifth straight year Liberty Bank, the Liberty Bank Foundation, and 48 Rotary clubs partnered to raise money to not only provide money for Thanksgiving food but to stock our local food banks for the coming months. The Liberty Bank Foundation donated 25 cents for every dollar collected. The […]

A Newer Thanksgiving Tradition Continued

December 1, 2020 in News (updated on December 1, 2020)

Something fun for the holidays

November 26, 2020 in events / News

One of Derby-Shelton Rotary Club’s longest-running traditions will not take this place this year due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. One of the major casualties of the pandemic was the cancellation of high school football in CT. That has meant that the traditional Derby/Shelton game on Thanksgiving Day will not be […]

No Football Luncheon or Trophy Presentation This Year

November 19, 2020 in events / Football luncheon / News (updated on November 19, 2020)

One of Derby-Shelton Rotary Club’s favorite projects is to enhance the education of third graders in all the elementary schools in Derby and Shelton by giving students their very own copies of a paperback student’s dictionary. Rotarians normally deliver the books and talk to the students about the importance of […]

Dictionary Project Continues – Even During a Pandemic

November 10, 2020 in News / Program (updated on November 10, 2020)

Here’s an update to our earlier story about Rotary’s commitment to the Million Dollar Mask Challenge from Derby/Shelton President Judy Gulish: Just wanted to share our experience with the Million Dollar Mask Challenge. The district took their show on the road and Tom and I attended the event for our […]

More Masks for Nonprofits from Rotary

October 13, 2020 in Grants / News (updated on October 13, 2020)