Bethel Area Rotary Club

06/11/2026

Find more about the Rotary International Youth Exchange program! Hosting a student or sending a student out. It should be a fun evening!

06/05/2026

Uniting for a purpose, food shelf and access programs come together to strengthen the region's food security, celebrating triumphs and embracing challenges as one!
Thanks to the for convening the group!

05/01/2026

05/01/2026

Join us to help with Green-up Day and then enjoy a community meal at noon.

04/23/2026

As World Immunization Week begins, we celebrate the power of vaccines to protect children, prevent disease, and keep communities healthy. This week, 24 to 30 April, is also a time to recognize the dedicated people who make immunization possible.

Rotary supports programs that equip community health workers to deliver vaccines and connect communities to care. In Pakistan, thousands of these essential workers travel long distances to vaccinate children and support environmental surveillance efforts, reaching even the most remote and vulnerable people.

These efforts have achieved remarkable progress. Since 1988, Rotary and our partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative have reduced polio cases worldwide by more than 99.9%. Our members support vaccination programs that protect against polio, measles, and other life-threatening diseases. Immunization remains one of the most effective tools to protect children and keep communities healthy.

During World Immunization Week, you can help sustain these efforts by donating to support our work to eradicate polio and prevent other diseases
https://my.rotary.org/en/polioplus-fund

04/21/2026

This year’s Bethel Area Rotary’s community hero is regularly texting about food choices and meal deliveries at 10 pm on Tuesday nights for Stockbridge Community Meals. Clearly exemplifying the Rotary motto of Service Above Self and her dedication to making a contribution to her community.

Deborah Aldrich, who was selected for this year's award, has spent her life dedicated to community organizations that have been at the nexus of sustainable agriculture, living wages, justice and food security. Danny Dover, a local resident, describes her as being “exceptionally dedicated”. Her current tireless efforts have been with Stockbridge Community Meals. A program set up to support local farmers, chefs, and offering meals to those who need them especially seniors. She has devised a sustainable way to have this program self-sufficient by subsidizing the locally sourced and created meals through a subscription meal service that pays to support others who are experiencing food insecurity. One of her chefs, W***y Walker describes her as “in it for all the right reasons!” She says “Stockbridge Community Meals invites us to build a local food economy powered by moral imperatives: Support our farmers. Feed people. Don’t leave anyone out.”



Since moving to Vermont in 2009, Deborah has been involved as a volunteer with The Sharon Academy, Christ Church Bethel, The Bethel Community Meal, Gifford Medical Center Chaplaincy, the Committee to Design the Gifford Medical Center Chapel, The White River Investment Club, BALE (Building A Local Economy), and Stockbridge Community Meals. She notes volunteering has added disproportionately more to her own life and reinforces her belief that “We are one! All of us, the whole web of life. And we need one another”

The communities that Bethel Area Rotary represents Bethel , Sharon, Stockbridge, South Royalton, Rochester, Barnard and Tunbridge are fortunate that we have an abundance of community volunteers that keep our communities vibrant. This year several very deserving community members were nominated for this award. Nominations were made in recognition of community service in Tunbridge for Simon Bradford, Dan Rudi Rudell and Lois Gross. Bethel volunteers that were also nominated include Kim Kraus and Dave Crosby, Kathy and Russ Roholoff, and Lisa Campbell.

Bethel Area Rotary recognizes all of the sometimes invisible but essential contributions made by volunteers every day and for National Volunteer Week. We welcome you to join us in our work promoting peace, education, health and climate protections around the world through being part of Rotary's International membership promoting Service Above Self. Locally we impact our communities with Scholarships , Food Security and International Youth Exchanges and more. Interested in finding out more contact President Jeanne Conde at [email protected].

04/09/2026

Bethel Rotary Scholarships 2026
Bethel Area Rotary is pleased to announce our 2026 scholarships for this year’s graduating seniors from the White River Valley High School and the towns we serve at the Randolph Technical and Career Center, Sharon Academy or other local educational programs. We will offer several scholarships of up to $1,000 to students attending two or four-year educational experiences or vocational training. Our scholarships are open to students from our chartered towns: Bethel, Royalton, Tunbridge, Barnard, Rochester, Pittsfield, and Stockbridge, entering college, vocational training, or entering a trade and in need of specialized equipment.

Bethel Area Rotary will select scholarship awardees based on a simple application process. Students are asked to clearly include all of their contact information and what they envision as their next educational or career steps as they answer the following prompts.

Students should answer the following two questions each in no more than 150 words:
How will a Rotary scholarship enhance your educational or career goals? and How does your life so far exemplify Rotary’s mission of “Service Above Self”?
Students should also include a resume or CV of relevant community or work activities.

Applications must be received on or before Friday, May 29th, and can be paper or digital submissions. Scholarships will be announced in June at the end of the school year. Educational scholarships are disbursed in late summer after we receive notification of enrollment.

Include contact information in your carefully prepared materials and send it digitally or by USPS to:

Bethel Area Rotary
PO Box 239, Bethel, Vermont 05032

For information and digital submissions contact: Rotary President – Jeanne Conde
[email protected]

02/18/2026

What a wonderful project. Love working with the Club Rotario Danli

02/05/2026

Honduras mission construction crew working hard