The Salazar Partnership is a program begun in 1998 that provides volunteers and other resources at Salazar and Agua Fria Elementary Schools in Santa Fe.
Escondido Lodge #1687 presented all Reidy Creek third grade students with a dictionary.
A Reidy Creek reading teacher and selected students express their gratitude.
The Carlsbad Elks Lodge distributed dictionaries to twelve elementary schools this fall. Since 2002, Carlsbad Elks Lodge 1558 has donated over 5,000 dictionaries.
Nancy Mjelde, an active member of the Coeur d`Alene, Idaho, Lodge, has received hundreds and hundreds of thank-you letters from children over the past five years.
Third-grade students in four New Mexico counties will reap educational benefits this school year because community members are helping children become better readers and learners.
Editor`s note: Judy Payne, of Nevada County Republican Women Federated, is excited about the group`s work on The Dictionary Project because of its reach into our future — all at very low cost