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Bowling for literacy – Rotary Club of DeLand delivers 3,000 dictionaries

Oct 03 2013
Mary
DELAND – The Rotary Club of DeLand recently completed its 8th Annual Bowling for Literacy/Dictionary Project.

Dictionaries donated to Springfield students

Oct 01 2013
Mary
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) - Hundreds of third-grade students in Springfield have been given brand new dictionaries from a local publisher.

Third-graders get free dictionaries to aid education

Sep 30 2013
Mary
Nearly 1,300 third-graders throughout the Bryan school district were personally handed a dictionary from an elected official during a two-day dictionary giveaway that started Tuesday.

Kiwanis Club of Oxford Gives the Gift of a Dictionary

Sep 27 2013
Mary
The Kiwanis Club of Oxford in Mississippi has made community outreach and youth development a primary goal for the organization. Participating in The Dictionary Project for almost ten years, members have impacted...
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Cameron Elks Lodge Dictionary Project

Sep 20 2013
Mary
The Dictionary Project was founded in 1995 by Mary French of Charleston, SC.

Hendersonville Rotary Club distributes dictionaries to third-graders

Sep 18 2013
Mary
You could hear the excitement grow in Jim Finch’s voice as he picked up a copy of the dictionaries the Hendersonville Rotary Club were unpacking from boxes Tuesday night at Blue Ridge...
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