Wallingford Vermont Rotary

Firstly, of course, thank you to all who attended!

We were delighted to see lots of old and new faces on Sunday for the LobsterFest. One of our first properly Fall days, we found ourselves keeping cozy inside while little ones ran around, Lobster-themed hats eyeballed attendees, and laughter (as well as advice on how one should actually eat a lobster) was heard throughout!

The Wallingford club has always been proud to put on this annual event, and this year in particular the Interact Club and our new international exchange students were an integral part of the day – manning parking, running steak orders and staffing the cake stand, jobs that your author personally appreciated.

For those of you who missed it, we look forward to seeing you next year!

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Saturday June 1, 2024 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Vermont Fish and Wildlife 
Stocking approximately 190 plus brook trout in the West Hill Pond.

Part of Vt. Fish & Wildlife’s ,
“Let’s Go Fishing Program”

Wallingford Rotary has been an approved sponsor for the past 20 plus years.
Hosting 50 plus students a year, over  a 1,000 students over the past 20 years.

Program is educational and introduces young students to fishing, an activity they can do outside their whole lives.

Open to all area children. Free event with free hotdogs and prizes!

Thank you to everyone who helped to make the Rotary’s Pork dinner on Saturday such a success. From today’s Rutland Herald, thanks to Wallingford resident and Rotary supporter, Lisa Cuzydlo-Donohue for sharing.

Wallingford Rotary held its annual fishing derby and clinic on Saturday June 10th. A bit shout out to our community without whom the event would not be possible and to our Fishing Derby Chairperson, Don Glendenning who once again put together an amazing community event. Some of the day’s highlights:

A few highlights of the day:

1. We had 50 registered student fisherman ranging in age from 18 months to 15 years old, all where attended by a guardian.
2. There were approximately 40 plus fish caught between 9 and 12 inches, a few may have missed the measuring station.
3. We had ten Rotarians attend this morning and  assist from set up to take down. We had assistant for other members with prizes and supplies, once again support from all.
4. Our grill master, Jay White cooked 120 hotdogs, the official hot dog count between the 50 students and the 10 Rotarians is still be calculated.

Here are some pictures of a wonderful community event, uniting young and the young at heart members of our community, first time fishers and experienced mentors and resulted in a whole lot of fun for all involved.

This morning the Wallingford Rotary Club inducted its newest Rotarian, Todd Gregory, M.D. to our club. The ceremony conducted by President Dave Ballou with assistance from Randall Barclay DGE was a first for the little red schoolhouse club, done in a hybrid fashion with some participants in person at the Schoolhouse and some members participating via video conferencing. Hopefully this will be a new way of our little rotary club stretching its wings and making the world a little smaller and bringing people from all over the world to our club.

Congratulations to Dr. Gregory who is the Medical Director of the Emergency Department of Rutland Regional Medical Center! We are very happy to have you join our ranks as a Wallingford Rotarian!

Thanks to John Bob Siemienowicz, Incoming District Governor for his fantastic virtual photography skills capturing the moment!

Dr. Gregory joins our other new members this year, Drew Elwood and Paul Gillett and we are grateful for them all!

If you are interesting in joining our hybrid meetings, either in person or via video conferencing please send an email to randell.barclay@gmail.com to be included in our meeting invite! All are welcome!

Unfortunately, for safety reasons, we are unable to hold our annual Bicycle Helmet and Safety Day which we love as much as you do. But, we want our community children to be safe while bike riding this summer, so on Saturday, June 12th from 9-12 please stop by the Rotary Building on Main Street in Wallingford to pick up a free bicycle helmet for your little one(s). We ask that everyone please wear masks for the safety of all! Thank you and see you Saturday!

Just to make it even sweeter, and cooler, we will be giving out ice cream cups too!

The Wallingford Rotary Annual Fishing Derby and Clinic is back! The Derby will be held this Saturday, June 5th from 9-12 at the West Hill Road Pond. Admission is free to all. There will be free hot dogs and prizes for our little fishing folk! This is a socially distanced event around the pond but we ask that everyone wears masks at registration! We are excited to be able to sponsor this much anticipated community event and look forward to seeing you there!