If you are able to contribute diapers to our diaper drive, we would greatly appreciate your support for our neighbors and friends.
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Tagged children, community, diaper drive, Rotary, Vermont, wallingford rotary
Many thanks to the many hands that helped to make our “Teach Napal Project fundraising dinner last Saturday at the Wallingford Rotary a big success!
As usual, our small but mighty club roared into action to serve more than 60 German Pork dinners and homemade apple desserts to our friends and neighbors on Saturday, January 26th at the Little Red Schoolhouse.
Our MRUHS Interact Club members were at the ready – helping our diners with beverages, clearing and re-setting tables and probably most importantly and very much appreciated by our guests, helping guests get in and out safely — offering a steady hand to help navigate the somewhat slippery sidewalks outside!
With the help of the Rotarians, Interact members and Rotary friends, and thanks to our great community without whom these dinners would not be such a success, we will be able to donate $500 to the Teach Napal Project, to assist with Napalese teacher education programs, furthering the Rotary motto of “service above self”.
Here are some lovely pictures of the evening, with photo credit to our special visiting guest and helper, Guenevere Crum.
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Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to everyone who helped make Sunday’s Lobsterfest and Silent Auction a success! Special thanks to our sponsors who so generously donated their time, talents, products and services so we could continue to help our community children and the Uganda project! Here are some photos from the day!
A special belated happy birthday to our president, Nan Dubin – who spent her entire birthday being an important part of the Lobsterfest and Silent Auction, showing that Rotarians are awesome and totally put service above self!
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Here is an updated list of our silent auction items that continue to roll in every day thanks to the generosity of those individuals and businesses that support Rotary. We are happy to announce that we will provide advance bidding for those unable to attend the LobsterFest on Sunday, but we do hope that if you’re able you attend – there will be live music in addition to great food and company! Here are photos of some of our auction items!
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Tagged auction, community, donations, lobster festival, Lobsterfest, Rotary, silent auction, Wallingford, wallingford rotary
We at the Wallingford Rotary are simply overwhelmed by the support we are receiving for this year’s Silent Auction to be held during our Lobsterfest on Sunday, August 26th at the Wallingford Lodge at Elfin Lake. We hope that you have secured your tickets to join us for an amazing evening! This year, we will have live music, a silent auction with amazing items for bid as well as our delicious and fun lobster dinner! Tickets, if you don’t already have them are available from any Wallingford Rotarian for $30 each, your choice of either lobster or steak with all the trimmings.
Our Silent Auction list grows every day –
~Gift basket donated by the Vermont Country Store
~Gift certificate donated by the Vermont Country Store
~Twosome of Golf and Golf Cart donated by Stratton Mountain
~2 lift tickets donated by Stratton Mountain
~Roundtrip airfare for 2 donated byCape Air
~Four-pack of Men’s basketball home game tickets donated by UVM Athletics
~2 admission passes and coupon donated by Montshire Museum
~X Country Ski Lesson and Lunch for 4 donated by Adrian Eisler
~Guided Hike donated by Barry Griffith
~Split and Delivered Cord of Firewood donated by Steve Baker
~Handmade braided chair mats donated by Lois Johnstone and Kathy Detko
~Handcrafted quilt (53×43) made and donated by Ann Latucca
~Handcrafted quilt (54×53) made and donated by Lena Drzewiczewski
~Cabot Cheese Basket donated by Cabot Cheese
~Gift Certificate donated by Seacoast Repetory Theater
~Mixed case of wine donated by Taffy Hyyppa
~Gift Certificate for PYO 5 lbs of blueberries donated by Sugar Hill Berry Farm
~Pair of Lift Tickets donated by Okemo Mountain
~Pair of Lift Tickets donated by Bromley Mountain
~Photograph donated by Lowell Klock
~and so much more!
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Tagged children, community, donors, Lobster, Lobsterfest, Rotary, silent auction, Support, wallingford rotary, Wallingford Vermont
The Wallingford Memorial Rotary Club has been making the safety of its communities’ children a top priority for twenty years. Annually since 1998, the Wallingford Rotary sponsors the Wallingford Bike Safety Day. The annual event, held in early May, turns the lawn of the Wallingford Elementary School into a bicycle extravaganza. With financial assistance and continued volunteer support of General Electric, every child who attends the Rotary event, which is open to all area elementary children in Danby, Wallingford, Tinmouth, Shrewsbury and Clarendon, receives a brand-new bicycle helmet of their choice. The helmet is then personally fitted by our Rotary, GE and Interact volunteers to each child’s head and they are instructed in the proper way to wear the helmet for most effective protection while they ride.
After getting their new helmet, each child then circulates through the other stations, which include a volunteer staffed bicycle inspection/repair station, obstacle course where children learn how to properly cross railroad tracks, avoid road hazards, use hand signals and learn proper road etiquette and safety. Other stations provide fun education demonstrating how to avoid crashes and educate children in first aid/bicycle and road safety with volunteers from the Wallingford Fire Department, Wallingford Rescue Squad and the Rutland County Sheriff’s Office, which all participate to help educate and teach our young cyclists.
There is also volunteer-manned face painting and free refreshments, truly making the day a fun filled event for our littlest community members and their families. The day culminates with the highly anticipated bicycle raffle where seven bicycles are raffled off to area children, along with other prizes and gift certificates generously donated by local merchants.
Bike Safety Day has grown into a loved and anticipated community event, eagerly awaited by all. This year to mark our 20th anniversary, we sponsored a 20th anniversary t-shirt logo contest in our local elementary school prior to the big day. The winning logo was created by Torrance Behrendt, a 5th grader at WES. To celebrate our 20th anniversary and Tori’s beautiful design, everyone was encouraged to bring a clean t shirt to the school and our elementary staff screened Tori’s winning logo onto shirts for everyone to enjoy and wear proudly on Bike Safety Day!
Long before we ever take over the elementary school lawn in early May, our bike safety chair, Rotarian Adrian Eisler and community volunteers attend an assembly at the elementary school to educate kids about bike safety and get them excited for our big day!
Bike Safety Day is truly a community event and would never be possible without the dedication and support of our Rotarians, Interact members and many community members – those that donated their time, their talent, new bicycles for our raffle, food for our free refreshments, and so much more! This year, we were especially grateful to welcome a newcomer to our event, Rutland Regional Medical Center which made a generous donation and contributed key chain first aid kits for all our attendees!
Wallingford Rotary is a small club, with fewer than 20 members, but we are a big-hearted club. As we like to say, we are “small but mighty!”
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Tagged 20th anniversary, bicycles, bike safety, children, community, GE, good things, kids, Rotary, RRMC, service above self, Wallingford, wallingford rotary
It’s that time of the year again! Wallingford Rotary’s Annual Lobster Festival and Raffle. Please join us on Sunday August 27th for a delicious afternoon of community and seafood by the shore of Elfin Lake to end the summer.
Tickets are available now for $30 each. Each ticket entitles you to your choice (in advance) of lobster or steak, with all the trimmings, beverages and dessert. Feel free to BYOB. It’s a great way to enjoy a lazy summer Sunday afternoon.
This is our Club’s largest fundraiser of the year. The proceeds from this Lobster Festival and the accompanying raffle go to support our programs for the children of our community. These include:
Raffle Tickets are $10 each or 3 for $20. In addition to the cash prizes which are a first prize of 2/3 of the winning pool and second prize of 1/3 of the winning pool, this year’s prizes will include:
If you are interested in buying raffle tickets or buying tickets to the Lobster Festival please call Tammy at 802-259-3711 or email tammy.heffernan@mac.com.
Your support of our local Rotary club is very much appreciated so we can continue to put service above self for our community and its children.
Thank you,
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Tagged community, fellowship, Fundraiser, kids, lobster fest, lobster festival, raffle, Rotary, service above self, students, tradition, Vermont, Wallingford, wallingford rotary
Today was a beautiful day for our Rotary Club’s annual fishing derby and clinic. Rotarians were out to help make it a fun day for area children and their families. Lots of smiles, lots of fish and lots of fun! Thanks to all who came out to participate and all those Rotarians in our small but mighty club that always make it all work for our community!
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Tagged community, district 7870, fishing, fishing clinic, fishing derby, kids, meetings, Rotarians, Rotary, Vermont, wallingford rotary, Wallingford VT
Photo Credit Jacob Hannah for The New York Times
Wallingford Rotary’s Hungarian exchange student, Eszter Toth and Rotarian Nan Dubin both made the New York Times today! We’re so very proud of both of them since we love to see what our Rotarians and our exchange students are doing in the community. In addition to all the other aspects of settling into a new country, Eszti has also decided to take on Arabic lessons while she is staying here in Wallingford. The Arabic lessons are being taught in Rutland for free in preparation for the Syrian refugees who are anticipated to arrive in Rutland.
If you are interested in participating in the lessons or want more information, you can join the free lessons at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Rutland. The lessons will be held on Monday through Thursday from 5:30-7:30pm.The dates are Jan. 2nd- Jan. 5th and Jan. 9th- Jan. 12th. Any questions email morgandenehy@gmail.com
To read more about the New York Times article, find it here.
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Tagged Arabic, community, exchange student, Rotary news, Vt, Wallingford, wallingford rotary, youth exchange
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