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A Beloved Tradition: Essex Junction Lions Inspire Young Readers in Winooski

Jan 28 2026
Carrie Bonavita
  (In the featured photo above: Lion, Doris Maynard and her daughter Lion, Michelle Maynard joins the St.Francis Xavier School third-grade students.  – Photo courtesy Essex Junction Lions Club) The third graders...
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The power of a printed dictionary is alive and well in Lake County classrooms

Jan 28 2026
Carrie Bonavita
(Rotary member Sharon Fulton shakes hands with Marcus Heavyrunner as Rotary members gathered at Linderman School in Polson last Tuesday to disperse free dictionaries. (Photo courtesy Kristi Niemeyer/Leader) Thanks to the Rotary Club of...
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Hayfield Grange’s 23-Year Commitment to Literacy and Community

Jan 28 2026
Carrie Bonavita
(Photo: Third grade students at Saegertown Elementary School receiving their dictionaries.) Hayfield Grange # 800 (Saegertown, PA) recently provided dictionaries to third grade students at Saegertown Elementary School as part of The Dictionary Project, helping...
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Celebrating Curiosity: The Pagosa Springs Rotarians Shares the Gift of Words in Pagosa Springs Elementary

Jan 28 2026
Carrie Bonavita
The Rotarians of the Pagosa Springs Rotary Club recently visited Pagosa Springs Elementary to give each third grader a colorful new dictionary. With guidance from the Rotarians, more than 100 students proudly signed their names and immediately...
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Pictured are Monongahela Rotarians Tom Graney, far left, and Deb Mangino, far right, and Kelli Schmeltz with her third-grade class at Ringgold Elementary North (Photo courtesy of the Rotary Club of Monongahela)

Monongahela Rotary Supports Local Literacy Through Annual Dictionary Delivery

Jan 28 2026
Carrie Bonavita
Today we would like to highlight the work of Rotary club of Monongahela. This year the Monongahela Rotary Club proudly continued its annual tradition of supporting youth literacy by delivering new dictionaries to...
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A New Chapter Begins: Frontier Elementary Students Receive Dictionaries

Jan 28 2026
Carrie Bonavita
Frontier Elementary School in Loxahatchee, FL recently received a donation of dictionaries for their third-grade students. With the help of third-grade teacher Susan McConville, the dictionaries were distributed, and the students eagerly began...
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