Elks donate books to local schools

A team from the Wasco Elks Lodge, headed by the Exalted Ruler, Jim Swann, visited Palm Avenue School in Wasco on Thursday, October 20. They gave three classes a total of ninety dictionaries.

Lakewood Elks’ gift of dictionaries spells delight for third graders

Venita Collier’s past three Octobers have been busy and she aims to keep it that way.

Elks dictionary program

In December, Naugatuck Elks No. 967 members Terry Ford, PDD, and Jim Sabio, GLC, PDD, presented dictionaries to the St. Francis—St. Hedwig’s 3rd-grade class.

Elks dictionary project

The Greenfield Lodge of Elks # 1296 in Greenfield, MA, made its first presentation of the year recently, at Federal Street School in Greenfield.

What to do with leftover books

 Some of our sponsors have asked what they can do with dictionaries that are left over after they distribute them at their local schools.

Simple gesture worth its weight in words

Third-graders at eight local schools are starting the year off right with brand-new dictionaries of their own.

Ukiah Elks put donation to good use

Dear Mary,
A quilt was donated to the Lodge’s Youth Activity Chairman. The money raised was donated for the dictionary program for the school Second Chance.

A gift of words

This year Galesburg Elks Lodge gave dictionaries to third-grade students at the Galesburg Christian School, third-grade students at Costa Catholic Academy, and the third-grade students in Galesburg

Cedar Grove Elks spread literacy

North End Elementary School students show off the new thesauruses donated to them by Cedar Grove Elks Lodge # 2237.

Lake of the Ozarks Elks Lodge dictionary project helps two local schools’ students

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