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The New Spirit Sunday School Class of St. John’s United Methodist Church Donates Dictionaries

Apr 03 2015
Mary
Members of the New Spirit Sunday School Class raise money each year to support education in their community by providing dictionaries to Zuni Elementary School in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This is their...
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Third grade classes in Taylor County receive a special gift from the Grafton Rotary Club

Mar 31 2015
Mary
Article written by Shaunda Rauch, The Mountain Statesman GRAFTON – Early Tuesday morning, Grafton Rotary Club members Lorraine Isner, President Dan Pauley, Ed Westfall, Kermit “Butch” Bias, and college student volunteer Raymond...
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Gulf Breeze Key Club Donates Dictionaries to Eleven Local Schools

Mar 27 2015
Mary
The Gulf Breeze High School Key Club recently completed their annual dictionary project. Following The Dictionary Project’s goal “to assist all third grade students to complete the school year as good writers,...
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Honoring the Life of Anse Windham, Kingsville Noon Lions Club

Mar 27 2015
Mary
Anse “Windy” Windham was the Past President and Past District Governor of Lions Club District 283. As a Lion, he received the Melvin Jones Award for dedicated humanitarian service, the Ed Flood...
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Noah Webster Presents Dictionaries to Webster, NY Students

Mar 27 2015
Mary
We are always excited to hear fun and unique ways to present dictionaries to students. The Rotary Club of Webster has one of their Rotarians dress up as Noah Webster for the...
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ROOTS, INC. Brings Dictionaries and the Art of Storyingtelling

Mar 27 2015
Mary
Regenerating Our Offspring Through Stories, Inc. (ROOTS) distributed 50 dictionaries to third grade students in Pennypacker School in Philadelphia, PA. ROOTS is an organization founded on the preservation of knowledge, wisdom and...
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