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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)

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)

Derby-Shelton Rotarians continue to brighten the lives of others, and this time its kids. Just in time for the start of the winter cold, Rotarians have once again participated in a program that purchases and supplies attractive winter coats for kids. Rotarians have participated in Operation Warmth which is run […]

Rotarians Help Operation Warmth for Kids

December 8, 2019 in News / Operation Warm / Program (updated on October 10, 2022)

Sand Project 2019 — There was a time when public works departments delivered fifty-gallon drums os a sand/salt mixture to street corners around the community for use by citizens throughout the winter. Those days are long gone, but Derby-Shelton Rotarians have brought their own version for seniors in Derby and Shelton. Each year, right […]

Rotary Delivers sand to Seniors

December 6, 2019 in Program (updated on July 3, 2020)

Derby-Shelton Rotarians are gearing up once again to deliver a powerful learning tool to every third grader in Shelton and Derby schools. This annual program sends Rotarians into each of the grammar schools in each of the towns to deliver a dictionary to each and every third grader. More than […]

Rotarians Delivering Words!

October 10, 2019 in Program / Reading (updated on July 3, 2020)

Kim Ryan-Caro is once again coordinating Derby-Shelton Rotary’s participation in the Read Across America program. Many members are involved in visiting elementary schools in Derby and Shelton to read the books pictured above and to then donate the books to the schools. This is an annual event for Derby-Shelton Rotary […]

Derby-Shelton Rotarians Participating in Read Across America

March 18, 2019 in Program / Reading (updated on July 3, 2020)

It was another cold, but successful afternoon for about a dozen Rotarians who volunteered an afternoon to prepare and deliver buckets of sand to senior citizens in Derby and Shelton. Kim Caro coordinated the event after soliciting the names of seniors looking for sand to keep their stairs and sidewalks […]

Sending Sand to Seniors for Stairs and Sidewalks ahead of ...

December 9, 2018 in News / Program

Literacy is certainly one of, if not the, most important skills picked up in school and the Derby-Shelton Rotary Club is playing a key role in helping third graders throughout Derby and Shelton pick up the necessary skills by providing them with their very own dictionary. The Club is once […]

Rotary putting “Words” into action

October 11, 2018 in News / Program / Reading (updated on July 3, 2020)

Jack Walsh and Arlene Greco were just two of this year’s readers. Members of the Derby-Shelton Rotary Club spent a lot of time in classrooms in schools in Derby and Shelton in recent weeks participating in the Read Across America Program. Rotarians had a lot of fun reading to children […]

Rotarians “Read Across America”

April 12, 2018 in Program / Reading (updated on July 3, 2020)