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Portland third graders grateful to local Elks

Jan 11 2011
Mary

Portland Elks Lodge 188 got a Gratitude Grant from Grand Lodge and used it to buy dictionaries to be donated to third graders.

Wordsmiths in the making: Frisbee Elementary School third-graders embrace their new dictionaries

Jan 11 2011
Mary

Frisbee Elementary School third-graders had their faces buried in their new dictionaries Tuesday morning after the Kittery Rotary Club presented one to every student.

West Minot Grange in sixth year of Dictionary Project

Jan 11 2011
Mary

 West Minot Grange # 42 voted to purchase Student Dictionaries for the Minot Consolidated School. This is our sixth consecutive year.

Lagrange students send thank-you note to Valley Grange

Jan 11 2011
Mary

Thanks so much for coming to the Cook School and presenting us with the dictionaries.

We loved your visit and learning about how to find words.

Valley Grange sponsors newspapers in education ad contest

Jan 11 2011
Mary

Our local paper, The Piscataquis Observer, does an annual 'Newspapers in Education' supplement in which local school students design advertisements for local businesses.

Optimists give dictionaries to third graders this week

Jan 10 2011
Mary

 To help celebrate American Education Week, members of the Wisconsin Rapids Area Optimists are visiting elementary schools this week to present dictionaries to all area third graders with the

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