Last fall the Potsdam Elks Lodge visited 10 local elementary schools to give dictionaries to their third graders.

Lodge members distributed 74 dictionaries to third-grade students at Central Elementary School. Pictured with their new dictionaries are third-grade students Ellee and Blaine.

Since 2003, the Ticonderoga Elks Lodge #1494 has been distributing dictionaries to seven area schools: St.