{"id":6778,"date":"2026-05-28T15:10:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/?p=6778"},"modified":"2026-05-28T15:17:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:17:19","slug":"rotarians-assist-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/blog\/rotarians-assist-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotarians Assist Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Derby-Shelton Rotarians recently completed a project to repair and replace the railings at the Derby Veterans Memorial building in Derby. The project was funded by $1,993 from Rotary District 7980 and $1,993 from the Derby-Shelton Club. The contractor was Atlantic Equipment Installers and a number of Club members helped with the repairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Veterans-Memorial-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Derby veterans Memorial Plaque\" class=\"wp-image-6782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Veterans-Memorial-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Veterans-Memorial.jpg 611w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Derby Veterans Memorial building was originally built as the first Unitarian Church in Connecticut way back in 1905. The beautiful stone building was taken over by the various veterans&#8217; groups back in 1927. The city owns the building but the veterans&#8217; group still operates the building. The railings needed extensive repair and painting and club members had a couple of enjoyable work days making it happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"567\" height=\"684\" data-id=\"6781\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Rotarians-Veterans-2.jpg\" alt=\"Rotarians working at Derby Veterans Memorial 2\" class=\"wp-image-6781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Rotarians-Veterans-2.jpg 567w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Rotarians-Veterans-2-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"536\" height=\"659\" data-id=\"6780\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Rotarians-Veterans-1.jpg\" alt=\"Rotarians working at Derby Veterans Memorial\" class=\"wp-image-6780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Rotarians-Veterans-1.jpg 536w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Rotarians-Veterans-1-244x300.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derby-Shelton Rotarians recently completed a project to repair and replace the railings at the Derby Veterans Memorial building in Derby. The project was funded by $1,993 from Rotary District 7980 and $1,993 from the Derby-Shelton Club. The contractor was Atlantic Equipment Installers and a number of Club members helped with the repairs. The Derby Veterans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6783,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions\/6783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}