Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Donor: Dictionary Project Volunteers
Greetings to our Alaskan dictionary friends
Thanks to your help, we are very close to our goal of providing a dictionary to every third grader in Alaska. However, we would like your assistance before we go on.
We know where we stand in terms of raw numbers of students, but we are not sure where we stand in terms of schools covered. In some cases, we can guess which school(s) you have sponsored recently, but some are not so obvious. (Our data tracking is getting better, but it wasn`t as good in the past.)
Would you be so kind, then, to answer a couple of questions please?
Which school(s) have you sponsored in ...
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By: KTUU Staff
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Donor: Anchorage Police Union
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The Anchorage Police Union gave a good word to the students of Nunaka Valley Elementary School today. In fact, the union gave them thousands.
Anchorage Police Department Detective Robert Lutes gave every third-grader their own dictionary, courtesy of APD Employees Association.
Lutes read about the national non-profit group Dictionary Project and convinced the police union to purchase the books for the kids.
`I thought what better way for the Anchorage Police Department Employees Association to give back to the community than through a gift like a dictionary to third-graders. They`re just at an ag...
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By: The Associated Press Anchorage Daily News
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Donor: First City Rotary
KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) - Third graders in Ketchikan are getting more wordy.
A local service organization, First City Rotary, is distributing dictionaries to every third-grader in the city.
Rotary members last week started passing out American Education Publishing Dictionaries to all public and private schools, as well as home-schooled students, said Rotary President Mary Kowalczyk. The distribution continued this week.
`We ordered 192 dictionaries and we should have a few left over,` she said.
The Rotary worked through The Dictionary Project, a national organization with a goal of assisting all stude...
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Dictionary Project, Post Office Box 1845, Charleston, SC 29402 . Articles and
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