Ansonia Rod & Gun Club donates $5K to Griffin Hospital walk/run

From left: Griffin Hospital Planetree Services Supervisor Laura Murphy, VP of Ambulatory Services Marge Deegan, Ansonia Rod & Gun Club President Art Davies, Rod & Gun Club Treasurer Horace Behrle, Director of Radiation Oncology Lori Murphy./ Contributed photo

DERBY - For the seventh-straight year, The Ansonia Rod & Gun Club is generously supporting the Annual 5K Walk/Run to Benefit The Center for Cancer Care at Griffin Hospital with a donation of $5,000 to be the event’s Finish Line Sponsor. 

The Club’s continued support of the 5K Walk/Run is thanks to the tireless efforts of Treasurer Horace Behrle, a cancer survivor and Volunteer Ambassador at the Center.

“Fighting cancer and caring for cancer patients is important to the Club because we’ve lost a few guys to cancer and we know how hard it can be on a person,” Behrle said.

The 9th Annual 5K Walk/Run to benefit the Center for Cancer Care at Griffin Hospital is a non-competitive, family-friendly event set Sept. 30 at 9 a.m. at the Center, 350 Seymour Ave.

Registration is $25. The registration fees will increase by $5 after Sept. 15. 

Sponsorship opportunities

Proceeds are earmarked for special needs of cancer patients, such as support for transportation, groceries and wig and salon services, as well as patient support programs at the Center for Cancer Care at Griffin Hospital.

Area businesses and community groups are invited to support 5K Walk/Run. 

Sponsorship opportunities include signage at the event, logos on the event promotional materials and T-shirts, and opportunities to have a table to distribute products at the event or put items, coupons, or promotional material in participant give-away bags.

This is a press release from Griffin Hospital. 

Ansonia Rod & Gun Club to sponsor Griffin 5K

DERBY - Griffin Hospital officials this week expressed their gratitude for the support from the Ansonia Rod & Club. 
They said each year the club makes a generous donation to the hospital's Center for 
Cancer Care's 5K Walk/Run, which this year will be held on June 6. The organization will be the finish line sponsor.

Please read the story here written by New Haven Register correspondent Jean Falbo-Sosnovich.

For more information about walk sponsorships, contact Christian Meagher at 203-732-7431 or cmeagher@griffinhealth.org.

Ansonia Rod and Gun Club donates $5K to TEAM Senior Services

Pictured from left: TEAM Director of Family Support Services Suzanne Reilly, TEAM Board of Directors member Ken Gurin, Ansonia Rod & Gun Club Treasurer Horace Behrle, TEAM Executive Vice President Diane Stroman, TEAM President/CEO David Morgan. / Credit: Fred Ortoli Photography

DERBY - TEAM Inc. announced today the Ansonia Rod & Gun Club presented the agency with a $5,000 donation in support of the Senior Service programs. 

Serving more than 840 Valley seniors, many of whom are elderly and homebound, TEAM’s Senior Services include Meals on Wheels, Homemaking, and Transportation. 

Without the daily and weekly contact these services provide, many of these seniors would be isolated and without interaction with the community. 

Meals on Wheels, for example, provides a simple, inexpensive service that can help prevent the need for more costly services, such as hospitalizations and nursing home care. Assigned to daily routes, drivers become familiar with the routines of their senior clients, and can alert family members or emergency services if a client does not answer the door.

In response to the generous donation, Diane Stroman, TEAM Executive Vice President said, “We are extremely appreciative of this special gift from the members of the Ansonia Rod and Gun Club. 

Their support of programs such as Meals on Wheels, which provides one meal a day to the home of a homebound senior, helps ensure that our elderly are not only eating, but eating food that meets the nutritional standards necessary to keep them healthy and active.

In addition, the program provides a daily social contact, something that is essential to older adults living alone.”

The Ansonia Rod & Gun Club has a storied history of supporting local programs that benefit the community. Club members pay monthly dues, which are used to support club activities, such as youth gun safety programs, as well as enabling the club to support programs such as TEAM’s Senior Services.

Horace Behrle, Treasurer for the civic-minded Ansonia Rod & Gun Club, said, “We are happy to be able to assist TEAM in their mission of helping the seniors in our community. They provide critical services to insure the wellness and well-being of our community’s greatest generation.”

This is a press release from TEAM Inc. , a private, non-profit corporation whose mission is to connect individuals and families with solutions that lead to well-being, self-sufficiency and full participation in the community.  

It aims to achieve its mission by conducting activities that address the needs of economically disadvantaged individuals and families including resource mobilization, education, advocacy and service delivery. 

TEAM programs serve the communities of Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Bethany, Derby, Milford, Orange, Oxford, Shelton, Seymour and Woodbridge.