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Rotary International is a service organization with the motto of "Service Above Self". Waterbury Rotary is a club of 35 local residents who are passionate about improving our communities, helping those in need, and having lots of fun in the process.
The Waterbury Rotary club was established in 1936 and has a long history of improving the communities of Waterbury, Duxbury, and Moretown. The club has made many additions to our towns, including:
- Building and maintaining the Rusty Parker Park gazebo, patio, & playground
- Building facilities like the recreation building at Anderson Field and a pavilion in Moretown
- Improvements to children daycare centers in Duxbury and Waterbury, the Waterbury Senior Center, and the Waterbury Food Shelf.
If you are interested in learning more about our club, please reach out to a member or go to waterburyvtrotary.org
In a typical year the Waterbury Rotary Club
- Awards 2 "Tools for Trades" scholarships to students from the Central Vermont Career Center
- Awards 3 scholarships of Apple laptops to college bound Harwood Union seniors
- Awards 2 community service scholarship to a Harwood Union senior
- Provides dictionaries to all third graders in our three towns
- Enables 2-4 Exchange Students to experience living in another country for a school year
- Holds 10-12 "Concerts in the Park" on Thursday evenings in the summer
- Organizes Waterbury's Not Quite Independence Day of celebrations
- Holds fun holiday events for children (and adults) including Sunzilla, the Easter egg hunt & parade, and visits with Santa
- Helps decorate the town for the holiday season including the lighted "tree" behind the elementary school and lights in Rusty Parker Park
- Conducts fun fundraisers including "Pie for Breakfast" and Waterbury Food Shelf Turkey Drive
- Plants trees at our local schools for Arbor Day
- Enables development of young leaders through the Harwood Interact Club and Rotary Youth Leadership Academy
- Supports the Waterbury Area Senior Center in many ways
- Contributes to international service projects, recently water systems in Honduras and schools in Kenya
- Contributes to the eradication of Polio through the Polio Plus initiative.
- Plus, many hours of community service by our members