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Tinley Park-Frankfort Rotary donates dictionaries to third-graders:<br />
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Third-graders in Harvey School District 152 now have a resource tool of their own to turn to when looking up word spellings, facts about the planets or maps of the seven continents.<br />
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The Tinley Park-Frankfort Rotary Club recently donated dictionaries to every third-grader in the district. The dictionaries were donated in memory of the late Sally Biernacki whose husband, Ted, has been a Tinley Park-Frankfort Rotarian for more than three decades.<br />
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The dictionaries were presented to students during a school board meeting on Sept. 21. The books are multi-faceted and include sections about weights and measurements, biographies of the U.S. presidents, facts about each state (including the state capitals, sizes, mottos, trees, birds, flowers and songs) and copies of the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution.<br />
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“This dictionary is probably one of the most powerful tools one can have in their possession,” said District 152 Superintendent Lela Bridges. “Thank you for choosing us. For some of our youngsters, it is their first personal book.”<br />
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The Tinley Park-Frankfort Rotary Club selected the Harvey school district as recipient of the dictionaries after reading about their financial challenges in a local newspaper. This is the third year it has provided dictionaries to the district’s 300 third-graders.<br />
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“It is our pleasure to do this,” said Steve Purucker, president of the Tinley Park-Frankfort Rotary Club.

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Tinley Park-Frankfort Rotary donates dictionaries to third-graders:

Third-graders in Harvey School District 152 now have a resource tool of their own to turn to when looking up word spellings, facts about the planets or maps of the seven continents.

The Tinley Park-Frankfort Rotary Club recently donated dictionaries to every third-grader in the district. The dictionaries were donated in memory of the late Sally Biernacki whose husband, Ted, has been a Tinley Park-Frankfort Rotarian for more than three decades.

The dictionaries were presented to students during a school board meeting on Sept. 21. The books are multi-faceted and include sections about weights and measurements, biographies of the U.S. presidents, facts about each state (including the state capitals, sizes, mottos, trees, birds, flowers and songs) and copies of the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution.

“This dictionary is probably one of the most powerful tools one can have in their possession,” said District 152 Superintendent Lela Bridges. “Thank you for choosing us. For some of our youngsters, it is their first personal book.”

The Tinley Park-Frankfort Rotary Club selected the Harvey school district as recipient of the dictionaries after reading about their financial challenges in a local newspaper. This is the third year it has provided dictionaries to the district’s 300 third-graders.

“It is our pleasure to do this,” said Steve Purucker, president of the Tinley Park-Frankfort Rotary Club.