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Third grade students’ lives opened to the world of words through joint Rotary, AHEF program

Feb 22 2011
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Almost 3,000 third-grade students in the Anoka-Hennepin School District received dictionaries this school year through a program sponsored by local Rotaries and supported by the Anoka-Hennepin Educ

Plenty of words for this gift

Feb 22 2011
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Physician Ned Krohn loves to help struggling readers in Whitehall District Schools’ volunteer Adopt-A-Reader program.

How Rotary spells ‘labor of love’

Feb 22 2011
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Students and teachers alike love the free dictionaries that club members give away.

Delta buys dictionaries for distribution to 3rd grade students in public schools

Feb 22 2011
Mary

Delta Air Lines has expressed its support for the Rotary Club of Saipan's dictionary project, which involves the distribution of over 1,000 dictionaries to third grade students of public schools on

Rotary Club donation a tradition

Feb 22 2011
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Members present dictionaries to Jackson third graders


Paris Civitan Club members hand out dictionaries to Henry County third graders

Feb 21 2011
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 Jan Doall of the Paris Civitan Club hands out dictionaries to the third grade class of Mendi Lassiter this morning at Lakewood School.

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