A dictionary teaches a child how to approach a problem and use critical thinking skills by sounding out the word and finding it in the dictionary. This simple task gives them a feeling of self-confidence and satisfaction that they cannot get online.

Watertown Elks Lodge delivers 10,000th dictionary

Starting from November 1, 2011, to November 5, 2011, the Watertown Elks Lodge #496 distributed 1,392 dictionaries to 3rd graders in area schools. Accompanying the dictionaries were drug awareness bookmarkers and coloring books. The Lodge presented dictionaries to students at 23 elementary schools this school year.