RB Sunrise can't say No
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Determined to continue improving lives at every age and income level throughout the community, 20 volunteers from the Rancho Bernardo Sunrise Rotary Club recently fanned out across area elementary schools to distribute free dictionaries to third graders.
“We organize this effort in cooperation with the
SoCal Dictionary Project,” reports club president Rick Coburn. SoCal DP
is dedicated to providing free English and Spanish/English bilingual
dictionaries to all third grade students in the nation’s public schools.
“We are very proud to have been involved in this excellent effort.”
says Coburn, noting this is the ninth year the RB Sunrise Club has
worked with area schools in this way.
Each year RB Sunrise Rotary distributes almost 1,350 dictionaries – one
for every third grader at 11 San Diego-area elementary schools. The
money used to sponsor this year’s program was raised during the club’s
2011 holiday campaign, an annual event that uses a full-page ad in area
newspapers to thank the generosity of area individuals and businesses
responsible for donating tens of thousands of dollars to help make North
County a better place to live. RB Sunrise Rotary returns every dollar
to the community through programs like the Dictionary Project.
Children at Dingeman, Ericson, Hage, Hickman, Jerabek, Mason, Midland,
Painted Rock, Park Village, Valley, and Walker elementary schools
benefited from the dictionary program. Coburn reports efforts are
already underway to raise money for next year’s dictionary campaign.
Story by Rob Weinberg and presented here courtesy of La Prensa.