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Rotary Oyster Fest directly benefits district children

Oct 08 2011
Mary

When you buy a raffle ticket or a raw oyster at this year’s Oyster Festival, it will directly benefit children in the Oyster Bay-East Norwich School District.

Montgomery Lions donate dictionaries

Oct 08 2011
Mary

Not only does it define words, it is also a resource for measurement conversions, contains maps of countries, has a copy of the United States Constitution, the periodic table of elements, multiplic

Blackford County students receive valuable gift

Oct 08 2011
Mary

Blackford County Community Foundation in Hartford City, Indiana, will be disbursing our Webster's Dictionaries for Students October 26th to our school corporation’s third graders (130

Club to present free dictionaries to all third grade students

Oct 06 2011
Mary

For the sixth year, members of the Rotary Club and their friends will travel to every elementary school in Plainfield and in North Plainfield this Fall season.

New dictionaries delight Peoria third graders

Oct 06 2011
Mary

Miranda, 8, a third grader at Northmoor Primary School, scanned and flipped the pages of her brand new dictionary with a finger tip that was elaborately colored with bright orange nail polish.

Elks provide dictionaries, smiles to students

Oct 06 2011
Mary

Lodge helps local students better define learning

It wasn’t a new video game, iPod or pair of sneakers that made Riley, 8, smile Sept. 29 — it was a new dictionary.

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