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Paris Civitan Club members hand out dictionaries to Henry County third graders

Feb 21 2011
Mary

 Jan Doall of the Paris Civitan Club hands out dictionaries to the third grade class of Mendi Lassiter this morning at Lakewood School.

The Atlanta Airport Rotary Club dictionary project

Feb 15 2011
Mary

This video is about the Atlanta Airport Rotary Club's efforts to improve literacy in Georgia.

Seven years running, Hemingway Johnsonville Lions distribute dictionaries

Feb 15 2011
Mary

 When children receive one of their first books, it is not often that the third word on the first page is “abalone.” Thanks to the Johnsonville Hemingway Lions Club and The Diction

Kiwanis Club ensures Combs School District is rife with lexicons

Feb 15 2011
Mary

 In February the Kiwanis Club of Queen Creek presented every third grader in the J.O. Combs Unified School district with a new dictionary as part of the Dictionary Project.

Dictionary distribution

Feb 14 2011
Mary

Monterey Peninsula Sunrise Rotary and the Dictionary Project


Local Rotary Clubs distribute dictionaries

Feb 14 2011
Mary

 The Rotary Club of London North, with the help of seven other local Rotary Clubs, is presenting dictionaries to Grade 3 pupils in 55 public and 16 Catholic schools during February.

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