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Friday, March 5, 2010

Kiwanians Give Dictionaries to Third Graders




Eight members - Lillie Crowe, Debra Guin, Carolyn Reynolds, Bob Simmons, Bill Boyd, Trevin  Burris, Al Zima, and George Brooks -  of the Kiwanis Club of Washington distributed
dictionaries to all 140 third graders in Washington-Wilkes Primary
School last Friday. The club has continued this project for four
years, donating $3.00 to The Dictionary Project in Charleston for each
dictionary given, 792 dictionaries in all. This project was started in,
1995 after a  similar effort in Savannah in 1992. Sponsors include a
wide variety of organizations - Kiwanis, Rotary, Lions, Elks, etc..
More than 8 million dictionaries have been distributed this way.

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