Among the many youth activities Ellisville Elks Lodge 2664 supports is its dictionary project. The mission is to distribute dictionaries to third-grade students in the community.

As area elementary school students begin to brainstorm what they want for the holidays, children can cross one item off their lists: a dictionary.

Newark Elks Lodge No. 1249 and the Newark Rotary recently partnered to distribute over 100 dictionaries to nine third-grade classes at Kelley Intermediate School.