In these days of laptop computers, electronic media of all types, and spell checks, it is refreshing to see children excited about something such as a dictionary.

Even in this high-tech age, kids still get excited when they receive a new book, said Kathy Chiverton of Danville Rotary.

The Coolidge Rotary Club gifted dictionaries to every 3rd grade student at West Elementary School, Heartland Ranch Elementary, San Tan Heights Elementary, Imagine School and Academy of Excellence S

DOVER — Forty-five third grade students at Portsmouth Christian Academy went home with a special gift recently – just four days before Christmas.

The Rotary Club of Lincoln gave dictionaries to the fourth graders in all of the Lincoln Public Schools and most of the private schools as well.

`Just in time!` was the remark of one of the Ashland-Greenwood Elementary School 3rd grade teachers in Ashland, Nebraska, when the Ashland Rotary Club arrived with personal dictionaries for all of

 Allegan Public Schools third-grade students received dictionaries in March from the Rotary Club of Allegan for the third consecutive year.

Rotarians from the Biddeford-Saco Rotary Club recently visited local third grade classrooms to talk to the students about the importance of literacy.

 Rotarians from the Rotary Club of Breakwater Daybreak, South Portland-Cape Elizabeth, visited third grade students attending Dyer, Brown, Small, Kaler, and Skillin Elementary Schools and pres