Somerton Rotary Club recently received a plaque from the Yuma County Educational Foundation which read,
The Rotary Club of Greater Anderson received many thank-you letters from children at the 15 elementary schools that were included in their dictionary project.
Here are a few of them:
We heard about the Dictionary Project while attending the Elks' National Convention. It took us a couple of years to get the ball rolling to be able to participate in the project.
Raymond Baker Post # 209 and Clark Cagley-Smith Post # 60 of the American Legion Auxiliary participate in the Dictionary Project which provides a Student Dictionary for the student's personal
George and Aggie Albright, representing the Lake Weir Kiwanis Club, gave dictionaries to the third grade students at Stanton-Weirsdale Elementary School.
For the 8th year, Goodland Elks # 1528 has distributed dictionaries to each 3rd grader at Central Elementary School in Goodland and at Brewster Elementary School this year also.