New Brighton Lions Club, MN
Every year the New Brighton Lions Club and the Mounds View Lions Club give dictionaries to 3rd graders in all 6 public and 2 parochial elementary schools in the Mounds…
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Republican Women of Kerr County, Texas
The Republican Women of Kerr County presented dictionaries to over 450 third grade students in 7 schools in Kerr County this year. Since partnering with The Dictionary Project in 2006,…
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CHS Rotary distributes dictionaries
The Rotary Club of Canonsburg Houston Southpointe recently completed its annual distribution of dictionaries to third-graders in the Canon-McMillan and Chartiers-Houston school districts. Third-graders in the following elementary schools each…
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Rotary Club of Bethel Park donates dictionaries to students
Each year, the Rotary Club of Bethel Park generously donates a copy of “A Student’s Dictionary” to every third-grader in Bethel Park for their personal use and to keep forever.…
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Rotary carries on Dictionary Project
The Douglas Rotary Club, in partnership with Freeport-McMoRan, gifted more than 400 personal dictionaries to third grade students throughout the city. Based in Charleston, South Carolina, the Dictionary Project has…
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Wordy Wednesday
FRONTENAC – Third graders at Frank Layden Elementary received the gift of knowledge Wednesday. The Frontenac Rotary Club delivered a dictionary to every student in three different third grade classes.…
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Allen Park third graders receive dictionaries
Third-graders in Allen Park received an extra gift during the holiday season, thanks to the Allen Park Kiwanis Club. Members of the Kiwanis Club presented 330 copies of Webster’s Dictionary…
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Rotary delivers dictionaries
It wasn’t Santa, but third grade students in Richfield, Monroe, Koosharem, Circleville and Marysvale all received an early Christmas present thanks to the Richfield Rotary Club. Rather than give toys,…
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Orangeburg-Morning Rotary provides more than 1,000 dictionaries to students
The Rotary Club of Orangeburg-Morning has again this year donated a dictionary to every third-grader in Orangeburg Consolidated School Districts Four and Five, Orangeburg Christian Academy, Felton Laboratory and Orangeburg…
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Ted Utchen, ‘Dictionary Man’, delivers dictionaries to DuPage schools
Ted Utchen began his crusade against bad grammar roughly 14 years ago, and since then his quest really hasn’t changed. “The Dictionary Man” brings little shtick to the vocabulary lesson…
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Peconic Landing group donates dictionaries to North Fork students
Third-grade students on the North Fork have become “crazy about words” thanks to a collaborative program between Peconic Landing residents and local citizens that gifts children with a personalized dictionary.…
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Members of North Platte Elks Lodge give books to area students
Members of the North Platte Elks Lodge spent Thursday morning giving books to third-graders in 18 schools in Lincoln, Logan and McPherson counties. In all, members said they handed out…
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