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Paul Harris Wallingford Walking Tour Page

Posted on November 14, 2022 | Leave a comment

We at the Wallingford Rotary are pleased to let you know that we have compiled a Paul Harris Walking Tour of downtown Wallingford Vermont. If you are in town and want a bit of history on Paul Harris, please follow along on the walking tour and learn about Paul Harris’ time growing up in Wallingford Vermont. If you take the tour, please take some pictures and share in the comments. We’d love to hear your thoughts and how you enjoyed touring our little town!

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Visitors!

Posted on October 29, 2019 | Leave a comment

The Little Red Schoolhouse was visited today by members of the Fitchburg Massachusetts Rotary Club. We are often asked to open our doors to our fellow Rotarians from all over the world to view the schoolhouse where Paul Harris attended school while he lived here in Wallingford. We have quite the little guestbook!

If you’d like to visit us sometime, please let us know. We’re always happy to have you join us for one of our sunrise breakfast meetings or we can plan a time for a Rotarian to open the doors and give you a tour. IMG_5560

 

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SILENT AUCTION THIS SUNDAY!!!

Posted on September 6, 2019 | Leave a comment

Foley Happy Cow Cones brochureimage1IMG_6891IMG_6890IMG_6889IMG_6888IMG_5401IMG_5402IMG_5403Eax%HhoWSxev9Gt5B1vw4gPlease join us from 4:30 – 6:30 at the Wallingford Lodge for our Wallingford Rotary Silent Auction! This year, we are pleased and humbled to have more than $10,000 retail value in items for auction!

Auction items include:

$1,000 gift certificate for Solar Array through Same Sun

Rental of Ice Cream Truck for next summer season for up to 50 people

Round Trip Airfare Tickets

Maple Butcher Block Cabinet

Sink Base and Cabinet valued at $350 from LaValley

Kitchen Faucet valued at $773.50 from FW Webb

Rutland Country Club Greens fees for 4

Dog sled rides by Brad Frohloff and his wonderful dogs!

Guided Long Trail Hike by Barry Griffith

Middle Eastern Dinner for 6 by Erika Berner

Private Riding Lesson by Bryce Hall

Bread baked to order by Erika Berner

Disney Cruise Gift Basket

Lift Tickets to Smugglers Notch and Bromley

Family Pass to Jay Peak Water Park

Fall Foliage Portrait Session by JK Photography

Pet Portrait Painting by Kimi Tokarczyk

Cross Country Ski Lesson and Lunch for 4 by Adrian Eisler

Gift cards to Main Street Cafe, Victorian Inn Pub, Sugar and Spice, Bianca’s Hair Salon, Garlands Agway, Tinmouth Snack Bar, LaValley, Loretta’s Good Food, Mac’s Market, The Foundry at Summit Pond, Charity’s Restaurant, Vermont Flannel, Thrive Center, Best Appliance and many more!

Hand braided chair pads, handmade quilts, signs, watercolor painting, vases, plates, pottery, jewelry boxes, felted slippers, and more!

Tickets to UVM Men’s Hockey, Echo Aquarium Family Membership, Petra Cliffs Climbing Center Package, Shelburne Museum Family Pass, Wonderfeet Museum Family Packs, and more!

Cabot Cheese Gift Box, Al Ducci’s Gift Basket, Author Signed books, leather handbag, totes, wine, Benjamin Moore paint, Teeth whitening Kit, Vermont Teddy Bear Giraffe, Handmade Cow Couple and so much more!

Please support us, as during our largest fundraiser of the year, so we can support our local community!Wallingford Rotary Lobster 2019.nddIMG_260020190723_16480220190318_07110349110312_2330528053869594_5330202427498954752_oGO!!!IMG_3097IMG_3085IMG_6326fEI67Qi+QFm8RsnKrw0nXgWxqMlXwWTHKPkyKKZSTWvgD+W8V1U1Qg6g8n5zhP7YlwLJheqlY7RyeDf6AIw8pskgXvKS6mWvQdyfxgibsFLKYQ6jqoXlN%TYipFEkMzucD9wLc9W0auiRbuYGoBHOMdP3QMj6vCqElRiSQQih8uSWCbQ4h9+z7RQSweabjA4d1mMGAG5CVn3IWQmass0QWxv5hdgfXaMyp5vQZaqgrVXYZXBxwEUMwp4MbTSSbRrd8Hpi9vQ+sz+bn%KQhqjjVgTIr8a0wN6+WKVAbR5KIIMMMyO1ZRAIMG_9204image6image4image5image1image2image3

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Annual Silent Auction and Lobster Fest Time!

Posted on July 31, 2019 | Leave a comment

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It’s that time of the year again! Wallingford Rotary will be holding its annual silent auction and lobster fest. Tickets to the Lobster Fest are $30 for either lobster or steak dinner with all the trimmings, beverages and dessert. Please email tammy.heffernan@gmail.com or call Tammy at 259-3711 for tickets or you can ask any Wallingford Rotarian.

The Lobster Festival and Silent Auction is our largest fundraiser of the year and will be held this year, as always at the Wallingford Lodge at Elfin Lake in Wallingford, Vermont on September 8, 2019. The event attracts approximately 150 community members who enjoy a lobster dinner with all the trimmings on the shore of beautiful Elfin Lake. We have a silent auction during the event to raise additional funds for our community causes as listed below.

The proceeds from this event locally to support our community projects for children this year will be split will be used in our communities to support the Wallingford Rotary’s work with area children including high school scholarships, our annual Wallingford Bike Safety Day where each child who comes is given a free new bicycle helmet fitted just for them, Project Dictionary where each third grade student in our communities’ schools of Danby, Wallingford, Tinmouth, Shrewsbury and Clarendon is given a new dictionary/thesaurus to keep as their own, our annual Fishing Clinic and derby and Youth Exchange with international rotary clubs providing local students an opportunity to experience a year living abroad with a host family.

We hope that you will help support our small but mighty club by attending the dinner and/or bidding at our silent auction. Please check back here for auction items as we receive them from our generous donors.

If you are a business owner or community member and would like to contribute an item or an experience to this year’s auction and be recognized as a Wallingford Rotary supporter or sponsor please email tammy.heffernan@gmail.com.

Thank you!

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Leadership

Posted on March 17, 2019 | Leave a comment

Here are some photos of our president-elect Randell Barclay receiving his leadership pin at the recent Rotary Leadership Institute. Congratulations to Randell and all the others who participated!

Randell receiving his leadership pin

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Pot Pie Dinner!

Chicken Pot Pie Dinner 2018

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Silent Auction Advance Bidding

Posted on August 22, 2018 | Leave a comment

This Sunday is the Wallingford Rotary’s Annual Lobsterfest and Silent Auction. This year, we will permit advance email bidding on items for those of you who are unable to attend the silent auction on Sunday. In order to bid on one of the items, please email your bid, which must be at least the minimum starting bid, to tammy.heffernan@mac.com. All email bids must be received prior to midnight Saturday, August 25th and must be for at least the minimum bid amount to considered valid bids. These advance bids will become the starting bids for the items at the silent auction on Sunday afternoon at the Lobsterfest. If you’d like to increase your chancing of being the top bidder and winning the item, please consider bidding more than the minimum bid amount. Winners will be notified by email or phone at the conclusion of the auction. Please include your contact information in your email bid. We can accept cash, check or credit cards for payment. Any perishable items must be picked up the day of the auction.

Directions for Advanced Bidding:

  1. Please include the item # or description in your email bid.
  2. Please include your name and phone in your bid.
  3. Please indicate your bid amount.
  4. Winners are responsible for picking up and payment for their items in a timely manner.
  5. By placing a bid, you are agreeing to pay Wallingford Rotary if you are the highest bidder.

Thank you for your support!

Item # Item Description Value Min. Bid
2 (2) Stratton Mtn Lift Tickets $230 $95
3 (2) Golf Twosome and Cart Rental Stratton Mtn $200 $80
4 Montshire Museum 2 passes = $34 $14
5 UVM Men’s Basketball 4-Pack Tickets to Home Game $100 $40
6 Bromley Mountain 2 Pack Lift Tickets $160 $65
7 Stewart Shops “A Month of Sundaes” Gift Certificates $100 $25
8 Okemo Mountain 2 Pack of Lift Tickets $200 $80
9 Vermont Country Store Gift Basket $125 $50
10 Vermont Country Store $25 Gift Card $25 $10
11 Cabot Cheese Gift Box $25 $10
12 Seacoast Repertory Theater $76 Gift Certificate $76 $30
13 Cape Air Certificate for Two Roundtrip Tickets $556 $225
14 Cord of Wood Split and Delivered Locally $200 $80
15 Learn to X-Country Ski with  Adrian Eisler & Lunch for 4 $100 $40
16 Hartsboro Pottery Piece N/A N/A
17 Thrive Center $25 Gift Card $25 $10
18 54X53 Blue and White Quilt $95 $40
19 53X43 Green Flower Basket Quilt $65 $25
20 Tooth Whitening Kit $150 $60
21 Victorian Inn $25 Gift Card $25 $10
22 Victorian Inn $25 Gift Card $25 $10
23 Victorian Inn $25 Gift Card $25 $10
24 Victorian Inn $25 Gift Card $25 $10
25 LaValley $50 Gift Card $50 $20
26 LaValley $50 Gift Card $50 $20
27 Glendenning Maple Syrup – Quart of Maple Syrup $25 $10
28 Sandra Marquis Item N/A N/A
29 Uganda Project Shirt $30 $15
30 Uganda Project Paper Bowl and Jewelry $20 $10
31 Guided Hike for 8 by Barry Griffith $100 $40
32 Kraftmaid Vanity with Granite top and sink $849 $150
33 Rutland Country Club Green Fees for Four $200 $80
34 Loretta’s Country Store $25 Gift Card $25 $10
35 Hand Braided Chair Mat $50 $20
36 The Foundry Killington $75 $30
37 Handmade Felted Slippers by Kathy Ross $40 $15
38 5 hours of Forest management consultation $250 $100
39 Mixed Case of Wines with 4 wine glasses $225 $90
40 Emergency Box/Basket $100 $25
41 SameSun  $1000 GC for Solar Array & consultation $1,000 $200
42 Lookout Killington $25 Gift Card $25 $10
43 Liquid Art Killington $25 Gift Card $25 $10
44 Sugar Hill Berry Farm Gift Card $25 $10
45 Lowell Klock Photography Photograph $175 $65
46 Antique Glass Jar $25 $10
47 Two Dozen Cookies $15 $7.50
48 Vegetarian Quiche $15 $7.50
49 Quiche with Meat $15 $7.50
50 Vermont glass vase $46 $18
51 Hand Braided Chair Mat $50 $20

 

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Silent Auction Update!

Posted on August 21, 2018 | 2 comments

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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New-ness at Wallingford Rotary

Posted on July 9, 2018 | Leave a comment

Wallingford Rotary’s most recent meeting this morning, contained a lot of “newness”. It was the first meeting presided over by our new President, Nan Dubin. It was also the first meeting attended by our new District Governor Venu Rao. It was rounded out with the induction of our newest member, Taffy Hyyppa.

We are pleased to welcome Taffy and our other new member, Kevin Mullin to the Wallingford Rotary. We are excited by their enthusiasm and support of our little club and look forward to having them as a part of our “small but mighty” club.

If you are interested in attending one of our Rotary meetings to find out what the Wallingford Rotary is all about and how our mission of “service above self” may correspond with your own volunteer aspirations, please feel free to come along to one of our meetings, Monday mornings at 7 a.m. or as otherwise posted on this site or our Facebook page!

We’d love to have you!

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President Nan Dubin, DG Venu Rao and Taffy Hyyppa

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President Nan Dubin accepting banner from DG Venu Rao

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DG Venu Rao presenting certificate for Rotary Brick installed by Wallingford Rotary in honor of the dedication of outgoing president, Erika Berner

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Wallingford Rotary Celebrates Bike Safety Day’s 20th Anniversary!

Posted on June 8, 2018 | Leave a comment

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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