new-banner

About the Lewes-Rehoboth Rotary Club

The Lewes-Rehoboth Rotary Club was founded in 1929. For 95 years the Club has been making our community a better and safer place to live, work, go to school and raise a family. Through our Flags For Heroes, and other fundraising programs and events, the Club has donated many hundreds of thousands of dollars to local charitable organizations over the years. In 2023 alone our club donated nearly $97,000 to these organizations or sponsored these scholarships and other events. Please help us continue this work with your Hero recognition for Veterans Day and flag sponsorship. Your Hero can be from any walk of life or relationship to you. Veterans, Active military, Family members. Teachers, Doctors, Nurses, Fireman, Police, EMTs … anyone who is a hero in your eyes.

The following is where your dollars went last year:

  • American Legion Post 17
  • Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children
  • Bill Peterson Memorial HS Scholarship
  • Bless Our Children - WBOC
  • Blessing Bags
  • Boys & Girls Club
  • Camp Fairlee Manor - Easter Seals
  • Can-Do Playground
  • Cape Gazette 5k for Harry K Foundation
  • Cape Henlopen Educational Foundation (CHEF) Supplies
  • Children's Beach House
  • Christiana Health Care (Swank Memory Care)
  • Clothing Our Kids
  • Community Resource Center
  • Del Foundation Reaching Citizens
  • Delaware Adolescent Programs, Inc.
  • Delaware Foundation Reaching Citizens
  • Delaware Tech Community College Veterans Program
  • Disaster Aid USA
  • Epworth Church Food Ministry
  • First Tee Delaware
  • Frets 4 Vets
  • H.O. Brittingham Elementary School Robotics Team
  • Hands International
  • Harry K Foundation
  • High School Scholarships (Club sponsored)
  • Home of the Brave
  • Kent-Sussex Industries (KSI)
  • Lewes Little League
  • Lewes Public Library
  • Life Lines Program
  • Mobi beach chair (City of Lewes)
  • Nursing Scholarships funded by Rotary District Grant
  • Nursing School Scholarships (Club sponsored)
  • Olivia Nemcic - Beebe Project
  • Overfalls Foundation / Boat Parade
  • Pathways to Success
  • Paul Kares
  • Polio Plus (Rotary Foundation)
  • Race 4 Warriors
  • Rise Against Hunger
  • Rotary Foundation
  • Rotary Interact Club
  • Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA}
  • School Blanket Program
  • Shepherd's Office
  • Shoes That Fit
  • Southern Delaware Therapeutic Riding
  • St. Peter's Heart & Soul Ministry
  • Sussex Academy (Nurse's Office)
  • Sussex Family YMCA
  • Techno Goober - Kids Fishing Tournament
  • Warrior Community Connect
  • West End Neighborhood House
  • What Is Your Voice

This year's commemorative medallion

50 stars for 50 states. 13 stripes for the original 13 colonies. Red, white and blue for valor, purity, and loyalty. The AMERICAN flag…recognized worldwide as the ultimate symbol of freedom. 

The Lewes Rehoboth Beach Rotary Club has been hosting its Flags for Heroes fundraiser for over a decade. The field of flags has grown incrementally and, last year, for the first time, we added lights for additional patriotic flair.

"The Flag Code states it is the universal custom to display the flag only from sunrise to sunset on buildings and on stationary flag staffs in the open. However, when a patriotic effect is desired, the flag may be displayed 24 hours a day if properly illuminated during the hours of darkness.”

We invite you to pay a visit. It really is a majestic sight — hundreds of flags billowing against the nighttime sky, each one commemorating a hero who’s touched another’s life with inspiration, leaving a legacy of generosity that perpetuates throughout our community.

2024-medallion

Sponsor your heroes

Won’t you join us in honoring our heroes and yours, whether veterans, active military, first responders, teachers or anyone else that has made a difference in your life and the lives of others? Your hero’s medallion will be proudly displayed on a flag at this year’s field of flags in front of the Cape Henlopen School District Office on Kings Hwy, in Lewes, over a 2-week period spanning Veterans Day. Once the display is taken down your commemorative hero medallion will be mailed to you to keep.

Sponsor your hero(es) online here for only $50 per hero plus a small transaction processing fee. Or print our form (Sponsor Flags by Mail) and mail it along with your check for $50 per hero. The Lewes-Rehoboth Rotary Club thanks you as do the many charities we serve.

It's tax deductible

All the net proceeds raised by the Club are donated to the greater Lewes community, and other organizations, through the Lewes-Rehoboth Rotary Club Foundation. The foundation is administered by the Greater Lewes Foundation, an Internal Revenue code 501(c)(3) public charity. Your flag sponsorship is 100% tax deductible. Thank you for supporting our veteran groups and other humanitarian and educational charities assisted by the Lewes-Rehoboth Rotary Club.
 

Do you have questions or need more information? Go to Corporate Sponsors or contact Bill Huntley at (404) 368-4065 or email to: Bill@Huntleys.us

(Businesses please use Corporate Sponsors)