Rotary Club: Giving the gift of literacy
Look up 'enlighten' in the dictionary and you probably won't see a picture of Joseph B. Emmons — but you'll get an idea of what he was all about.
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Dictionary Project comes to Oswego elementary schools
The Oswego Elks Lodge 271 representatives toured Oswego school district's elementaries to hand out dictionaries.
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Brockport Elks Lodge helps define generosity
An annual tradition of giving continues at Byron-Bergen Elementary School, thanks to the generosity of members of the Brockport Elks Lodge 2110.
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The Rotary Club of Beauregard-Vernon Sunrise continued a dictionary project begun last year, visiting students in several local elementary schools to delivery dictionaries.
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Rotary dictionaries spell help for fourth graders
Elementary students in Alton and Godfrey were at no loss for words Monday.
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Rotary supports literacy in the community with annual dictionary project
The Rotary Club of Park Forest is proud to begins the Rotary`s annual Dictionary Project.
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Best Dictionary
Third-grade students at Manteno Elementary School all received their very own Best Dictionary for Students on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008.
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Manteno News
The Manteno Rotary Club, Indian Oaks Academy, and the Manteno Education Foundation provided funds to sponsor dictionaries for all third-grade students at the Manteno Elementary School.
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The Sycamore Rotary Club distributed more than 300 dictionaries to third-grade students at local schools Wednesday as part of a nationwide Rotary project.
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By the end of this week, the Rotary Club of Oak Park-River Forest expects to have delivered 1,320 dictionaries to area third graders.
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Rotary’s global mission carried out right here at home
The Huntley Rotary Club`s belief in `Service Above Self` has led its members to help people locally and internationally.
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Dictionaries give students the definition of learning
Elementary students were at no loss for words Wednesday.
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