Groton Rotary Club assists students
The Groton Rotary Club has distributed 357 dictionaries to students in the Groton school system.
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Happy New Year!…from Joe McKay’s “Crazy About Words”
Since 2006, Joe McKay and his "Crazy About Words" class in the Lifetime Learning Program at Peconic Landing in Greenport, NY, have been supporters of the Dictionary Project.
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Third graders receive dictionaries
Third graders at 10 Harnett County primary and elementary schools recently received new paperback dictionaries, which were donated by David and Anne Hobson of Pinehurst, formerly of Dunn.
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Group hopes donation will help define kids` futures
Allison Gant is nearing the end of a long but enjoyable task: delivering 2,000 dictionaries to third-grade students in Alamance County.
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Three local Rotary Clubs, along with the help of the Kiwanis Club of Boone, are participating in the nation-wide Dictionary Project for the second year in a row.
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The Dictionary Project in central Vermont
The Central Vermont Rotary Club has completed the distribution of the dictionaries. We gave out all but six dictionaries, out of five cases.
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Topsham Grange presents dictionaries
On January 14, Mike Labbe, Master, and Luanne Crinion on behalf of Topsham Grange #37 presented 95 third graders at two elementary schools in Topsham (Williams-Cone and Woodside Schools) with…
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Elks give 250 dictionaries
Members of Elks Lodge # 641, Stevens Point, recently completed their Dictionary Project, which involved delivery of more than 250 dictionaries to third-grade students at six local elementary school
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David Pogue, the Technology reporter for the New York Times, graciously agreed to have his picture taken with our Director Mary French and webmaster Mohammad Alansari after he addressed one…
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Tony Richardson meets with Rotarian and Dictionary Project team
Tony Richardson, the fullback for the New York Jets has supported the Dictionary Project since he started the Rich in Spirit Foundation ten years ago when he played for the…
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Kiwanis dictionary donation ‘elementary’
It didn't take long for third graders in schools from Allen Elementary to Workman Elementary to discover all of the fun facts in their new dictionaries.
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