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Elks Lodge donates dictionaries to Sanford students

Feb 16 2012
Mary

One of the many programs sponsored by the Youth Activities Committee of the Auburn-Opelika Elks Lodge is the annual distribution of dictionaries to middle-school students in Chambers and Lee counti

Southeast third graders receive dictionaries from Echo Grange

Feb 16 2012
Mary

Mansfield’s local chapter of the National Grange has provided its yearly donation of dictionaries to Southeast Elementary School’s third graders.

Arno A. French, 1950 – 2012

Feb 15 2012
Mary

Arno Allen French, founding president of the Dictionary Project, passed away on Wednesday, February 15, 2012, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Some ado about prepositions

Feb 15 2012
Mary

 Joe Mc Kay’s
“Crazy About Words”
...toasting our language since 2003!

Thank you, Lions Club!!

Feb 15 2012
Mary

Dear Lion Nancy Rathe, Chairperson,

Dillard Elementary students love their 3rd-grade dictionaries

Feb 14 2012
Mary

Dillard Elementary School is one of the nine schools (over 750 books) where students received dictionaries from the Kiwanis Club of Central Broward.

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