Rotarians Give Dictionaries to Third Graders
Each year all third-grade students in the Anoka-Hennepin School District receive a dictionary from their local Rotary club, including the Coon Rapids Rotary Club.
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Elks Donate Dictionaries for Third-Grade Students
Among it's definitions for "charity," Webster's Dictionary includes "a gift for public benevolent purposes."
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Members of the Fallon Elks Lodge # 2239 Donate Thesauruses to Local Middle School Students
Members of the Fallon Elks Lodge # 2239 recently distributed 552 thesauruses to students attending Churchill Middle School, Lovelock Middle School, Silver Stage Middle School, and Fallon Oasis Academy
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Hamilton County High School Key Club Distributes Dictionaries to Local Third-Graders
Over the past three years, the Hamilton County High School Key Club has distributed over 400 dictionaries to 3rd graders in Hamilton County. The dictionaries have a special encyclopedic edition.
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Rotary Club of St. Bernard Hosted Annual Adult Spelling Bee
Did you know that a flock a finches is called a charm? You would, if you had participated in the Rotary Club of St. Bernard’s 14th annual Adult Spelling Bee.…
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Morrisville Rotary Distributes Dictionaries
Morrisville Rotary is presenting dictionaries from the South Carolina based Dictionary Project to third graders at Eden, Craftsbury, Elmore, Hyde Park, Greensboro, Johnson, Morrisville, Bishop Marshal
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Rotarians Delivering on The Dictionary Project to District 150 Third-Graders
Third-graders normally file into gymnasiums for physical education class on a typical Tuesday morning.
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Liberty Rotary Gives 3rd Graders New Dictionaries
Members of the Liberty Rotary Club gave 3rd graders at Liberty Elementary School dictionaries of their own Fri., Dec.
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The Gulf Breeze High School Key Club vice President, John Stopper, requested a grant for $666.66 from the Florida Key Club District.
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The Dictionary Project: Words for Thirds at North Bend Elementary
Students in Shari Myers’ classroom [got] their first dictionaries in November, when North Bend Elementary School was the first to receive the books in Snoqualmie Valley Kiwanis Club’s Words for…
Read Article →Rotarians Hand Out Dictionaries to Thousands of Mesa Students
A program launched by Mesa’s Rotary clubs reached a milestone this year when members breached the 50,000 mark for the number of dictionaries donated to Mesa students in just short…
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Madison Rotary Promotes Literacy With Gifts Of Books To Third Graders
As part of the Rotary Club of Madison’s Literacy Program, the annual Rotary Dictionary Project delivered free dictionary/gazetteers on Oct.
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