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Rotary Club: Giving the gift of literacy

Jan 05 2011
Mary

 Look up 'enlighten' in the dictionary and you probably won't see a picture of Joseph B. Emmons — but you'll get an idea of what he was all about.

Dictionary Project comes to Oswego elementary schools

Jan 05 2011
Mary

 The Oswego Elks Lodge 271 representatives toured Oswego school district's elementaries to hand out dictionaries.

Brockport Elks Lodge helps define generosity

Jan 04 2011
Mary

 An annual tradition of giving continues at Byron-Bergen Elementary School, thanks to the generosity of members of the Brockport Elks Lodge 2110.

Rotary Club of Beauregard-Vernon Sunrise visits classrooms

Jan 04 2011
Mary

 The Rotary Club of Beauregard-Vernon Sunrise continued a dictionary project begun last year, visiting students in several local elementary schools to delivery dictionaries.

Rotary dictionaries spell help for fourth graders

Jan 04 2011
Mary

 Elementary students in Alton and Godfrey were at no loss for words Monday.

Rotary supports literacy in the community with annual dictionary project

Jan 04 2011
Mary

 The Rotary Club of Park Forest is proud to begins the Rotary`s annual Dictionary Project.

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