Bulverde Area Republican Women Receive Creative Thank-You Letter from Students

This past school year, the Bulverde Area Republican Women donated 700 dictionaries to eight local schools in the Comal Independent School District. Every year members write personalized notes of encouragement in each dictionary and teachers have expressed this gesture is truly meaningful to the students. Margie Aaron, third grade teacher at Bil Brown Elementary wrote: “I want to assure you the dictionaries are a...
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Heights Couple Distributes Dictionaries to Third-Graders

Article written by Todd Martin, Harker Heights Herald A Harker Heights couple is laboring to help educators inspire students to love learning. Anthony and Sarah Triola made their eighth stop to a Killeen ISD elementary school Monday to distribute copies of the paperback “A Student’s Dictionary” to third-graders.They are continuing to seek sponsors to get the books in the hands of every KISD third-grader...
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Personalized Dictionaries from the Bulverde Area Republican Women, TX

The Bulverde Area Republican Women have sponsored schools in Texas for over ten years now. Their project has grown from a couple of schools to over 725 students in eight elementary schools in the Comal Independent School District. This area, encompassing both Comal and Bexar Counties (San Antonio area), is one of the fastest growing communities in the nation. Because of the ever-increasing number...
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Honoring the Life of Anse Windham, Kingsville Noon Lions Club

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 Award on behalf of the Texas Lions Foundation, and most recently, the Jack Wiech Fellow award for dedicated service to the children of the Texas Lions Camp. Mr. Windham introduced The Dictionary...
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Community Involvement Ideas: My American Hero Essay Contest

Each spring, the Lake Conroe Area Republican Women(LCARW) hold an annual My American Hero Essay Contest at nine elementary schools in Montgomery ISD and Willis ISD, Texas. Each fourth grade student writes an essay entitled “My American Hero” and receives a personalized My American Hero certificate. Members of LCARW read essay submissions from each school to determine a 1st, 2nd, 3rd and Special place...
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Pasadena Rotary Fish Fry Family Fun Day scheduled March 28

Article written by Kristi Nix, the Pasadena Citizen The Pasadena Rotary Fish Fry and Family Fun Day is scheduled Saturday (March 28) from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will feature tasty food, music, a photo booth, a raffle and lots of kid-friendly activities. Food service starts at 11 a.m. and will offer food prepared by the cooking team of the Harris County...
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South San Antonio Independent School District receives dictionary donation for district third graders

Over 850 third grade students in the South San Antonio Independent School District received free dictionaries, courtesy of the Ekasila Foundation and the Texas Indo-American Physicians Society (TIPS), Southwest Chapter. The donation was made in the Hutchins ES library on February 6, 2015 on behalf of all ten elementary schools. “It’s very generous and we’re very appreciative,” said Elizabeth Martinez, Hutchins ES principal, speaking...
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Anthony and Sarah Triola Work with Community to Bring Dictionaries to Sugarloaf Elementary

Anthony and Sarah Triola recently delivered 98 dictionaries to Sugarloaf Elementary School in Killeen, TX with the help of soldiers from the adoptive unit, the 11th Military Police Battalion, and the U.S. Army Criminal Investigative Command. It is great when members of the community take part in the presentation. Personally handing out books not only shows students the value of team work, it also...
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