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Danbury Rotary has a Banner Week

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It’s been a pretty good week for the Danbury Rotary Club as they added a new member and Danbury Rotarian Ralph Welsh won 2nd place in the Zone 24/32 Photo Contest.

Emilio Collar Jr., Assistant Dean of WCSU’s School of Business, was inducted into the Danbury Rotary Club this week in front of an enthusiastic crowd of Rotarians.

Ralph Welsh’s photo of area Rotarians marching in the Newtown Labor Day Parade won 2nd place in the Zone 24/32 Photo Contest. The photo depicts a group of Newtown Rotarians thanking members of area clubs for participating in the Newtown Memorial Day Parade which was dedicated to those lives lost in the tragic Newtown murders.This terrible event will affect the community of Newtown for generations. 

Congratulations to Emilio, Ralph and the entire Danbury Rotary Club on having such a banner week.

 

8 Rotary Clubs come out to support Newtown Connecticut in the Labor Day Parade

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iPDG Brian put up the ‘Wheel Signal’ about a month ago for area Rotary Clubs to participate in Newtown’s Labor Day Parade and he received marching support from eight Rotary clubs including; Newtown Rotary Monroe Rotary, Danbury Rotary, Ridgefield Rotary, Ridgefield Sunrise Rotary, Trumbull Rotary, East Hampton Rotary and North Haven Rotary (hopefully I didn’t miss any).

Over 100 community groups marched in the parade (or rode in a cool yellow car) today through on and off rain and the occasional threat of a thunder boomer. The weather didn’t seem to thin the crowds a bit as parade viewers were out in big numbers in full support of Newtown Connecticut.

The Newtown Rotary Club was kind enough to select yellow as the color for their 75th Anniversary shirts as they know what this DG knows; Yellow is the Happiest Color!!! It even helped to offset the fact that we were marching behind the Lions, perhaps we will be in front of them next year. Our own iPDG Brian Amey, Newtown Rotary Club, was one of the key committee organizers of the Newtown Labor Day Parade today. Brian was keeping duty at the end of the parade and wasn’t fortunate enough to get one the yellow shirts. For some reason he was wearing a lime color shirt.

From the community outpouring today it is clear that Newtown is a town on the mend. Jennifer and I were happy and honored to be part of this event today.