Janet O’Meara, Rotary Club of Homer Downtown, Homer, AK

We have been providing dictionaries to third graders on the Lower Kenai Peninsula for about four years, generally in cooperation with one or more other Rotary Clubs. This year we are the only club in our community to be donating dictionaries. We love this project, and we want to keep doing it as long as we can. The kids love getting their dictionaries and begin looking up words as soon as the books are in their hands. Second graders in the classrooms know that their turn will come the following year, and they eagerly look forward to it.