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Laurel Rotary Club promotes literacy with large gift to students

Jan 10 2011
Mary

 The Laurel Rotary Club is donating nearly 600 dictionaries to third-graders at eight public and private elementary schools this fall.

Big literacy push at area schools

Jan 10 2011
Mary

Edgewater Elementary School hosted a vocabulary parade at the school on Friday.

Grange donates dictionaries, a book gift certificate and 100 Grand

Jan 07 2011
Mary

 On Friday, January 22, 2010, when passing out dictionaries to the 3rd grade students at Friday Harbor Elementary School, Paideia School, and Stillpoint School, Pomona Grange Master Richard Ci

Dictionaries a gift from Everett Elks

Jan 07 2011
Mary

 The Everett Elks received a $1,000 grant from the Elks National Foundation and used it to help purchase 528 dictionaries for third graders in six Everett schools as part of the Words for Thir

Bridport Grange distributing dictionaries to area schools

Jan 07 2011
Mary

 The annual distribution of dictionaries has begun.

Cambridge students receive books from Rotary

Jan 07 2011
Mary

 The Rotary Club of Cambridge Area has provided dictionaries and thesauruses to students in the Cambridge, Fletcher, and Waterville school districts.

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