Rotary Club of Palestine
Thanks to the Rotary Club of Palestine, Texas, more than 600 dictionaries will be given to second grade students in the Palestine area. During the presentation of dictionaries, club members talk about word meanings and how to find them. They also read Rotary’s Four-Way Test, and help students look up words they may not be familiar with: truth, fair, goodwill and beneficial. Rotarian Hugh... Read More
Rotary Club of Palestine, Texas
Thanks to the Rotary Club of Palestine, Texas, more than 600 dictionaries will be given to second grade students in the Palestine area. During the presentation of dictionaries, club members talk about word meanings and how to find them. They also read Rotary’s Four-Way Test, and help students look up words they may not be familiar with: truth, fair, goodwill and beneficial. Rotarian Hugh... Read More
Honoring Heart Work
Article written by Todd Martin April 14, 2015 The Killeen Independent School District honored its busiest, most dedicated volunteers and celebrated almost 88,000 total service hours reported from last July through March. Superintendent John Craft thanked the service-minded honorees for their time and effort, but mostly, he said, for their heart. One campus came away with most of the top awards, fueled largely by... Read More
Frances Heyne Brings the Gift of a Dictionary to Yellowstone Academy
Frances Heyne out of Houston, Texas has made community service a life-long passion. In 2013 she extended her efforts and introduced The Dictionary Project to Yellowstone Academy in Houston. Yellowstone Academy was established in 2001 when a group saw a need and bought property in a part of Houston called the ‘Bottoms.’ Utilizing an existing school facility on the property, the school was able... Read More
Anthony and Sarah Triola Continue Project in Killeen Independent School District
Retired soldier Anthony Triola and former history teacher Sarah Triola distributed dictionaries to Harker Heights Elementary School on November 13, 2014. Valuing the importance of education, and the affordability of the book, the couple are revitalizing a Bell County wide dictionary project that ended back in 2007, starting with the Killeen Independent School District. To reach the 3,375 third-graders in 32 Killeen ISD elementary... Read More