Steve Klaers with the Rotary Club of Fridley and Columbia Heights [handed] out free dictionaries to third-grade students at Valley View Elementary on Jan. 15 in Columbia Heights.

The Cleveland School Rotary Club visited several area schools in late September and early October, distributing student dictionaries to third-graders as part of the Dictionary Project.

Nearly 120 third-grade students at Long Neck Elementary School waited in the school cafeteria March 11 to receive a special surprise from the Long Neck Sunrise Rotary Club.

NEWTOWN - Eight years ago, Jennifer Salvatore was in third grade and received a dictionary from the Newtown Rotary Club.

Area third graders will again receive dictionaries presented by the Olean Rotary Club through a grant from the Dictionary Fund at the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation.