Sycamore Rotary donates dictionaries

 The Sycamore Rotary Club distributed more than 300 dictionaries to third-grade students at local schools Wednesday as part of a nationwide Rotary project.

The dictionaries were given to students attending North, West, Southeast and South Prairie elementary schools in the Sycamore School District, as well as St. Mary`s and Cornerstone Christian Academy, according to a news release from the club.

The Sycamore Rotary Club is part of The Dictionary Project, a nationwide effort to provide schoolchildren with dictionaries for everyday use, according to the news release. The Sycamore Rotary Club also has provided three dozen dictionaries that will be taken on a Rotary mission to Nigeria in November.