By Ron Espiritu
After a 16-month delay, 73 American Heritage dictionaries were finally delivered to the 4th grade class at Broadview-Thomson K-8 School. As part of the District 5030 Dictionary Project, our club was schedule to give the dictionaries to the 3rd grade students in Mid-March 2020. Because of the covid shut down, we had to wait until in class learning resumed. On Monday, June 6, the books were hand delivered to 4th grade teacher, Tia Rizk. Unfortunately, none of the students were allowed to participate due to school policy.
Before June 30, the end of this Rotary year, the Club will purchase more dictionaries for the 3rd students who did not receive the books this school year. Sometime after the new school year starts in September, we will give the books to the 4th graders at Sand Point Elementary, Lichton Springs K-8, and Broadview-Thomson K-8 Schools.