{"id":6389,"date":"2025-11-12T17:35:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/?p=6389"},"modified":"2025-12-05T08:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:59:19","slug":"rotarians-assist-veterans-with-new-railings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/blog\/rotarians-assist-veterans-with-new-railings\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotarians Assist Veterans with New Railings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Veterans, Rotarians, and friends stand in front of the new railing.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Derby-Shelton Rotary Club is proud to have supported an important accessibility improvement project for the American Legion Sutter-Terlizzi Post 16, located on Bridgeport Avenue in Shelton. The American Legion is the nation\u2019s largest veteran service organization, founded by an Act of Congress after World War I. For over a century, it has fiercely advocated for the needs of veterans, service members, and their families who have pledged to protect our nation.\u00a0Established in 1919, the Sutter-Terlizzi Post 16 has been an active part of the community and the state. However, the facility was in need of a handicapped-accessible railing along the existing pavement from the parking area to the lower level where the club is located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Recognizing this need, the Post identified a local fabricator who generously provided the wrought-iron railing at cost. District 7980 Managed Grant<\/strong>, the\u00a0Derby-Shelton Rotary Club<\/strong>\u00a0was able to help fund the project. Robert Huelsman, President Atlantic Equipment Installers Wallingford CT did the railing fabrications and helped install it as a volunteer to the American Legion and Rotary club. J.J. Brennan Construction<\/strong> of Shelton assisted by digging all the holes for the posts at no charge. Matthew and Eric Brennan dug all the holes no charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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On\u00a0October 4, 2025<\/strong>, several Friends of Rotary joined\u00a013 Rotarians<\/strong> who assisted with unloading materials, leveling the ground, and ensuring safety throughout the installation process. A commemorative plaque will soon be installed at the site to acknowledge the club\u2019s efforts and community collaboration.<\/p>\n

The result:<\/strong> a safer and more accessible walkway for American Legion Post 16 members, guests, and visitors\u2014another example of Rotary\u2019s commitment to \u201cService Above Self.\u201d\u00a0Thank you for volunteering, Jeff Dow, Billy Hannon and all Rotarians<\/p>\n

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A few additional pictures:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Rotarian Kim Ryan-Caro wearing her father’s WWII U.S. Army jacket<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Derby-Shelton Rotary Club is proud to have supported an important accessibility improvement project for the American Legion Sutter-Terlizzi Post 16, located on Bridgeport Avenue in Shelton. The American Legion is the nation\u2019s largest veteran service organization, founded by an Act of Congress after World War I. For over a century, it has fiercely advocated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-events","category-grants","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6389"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6464,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389\/revisions\/6464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}