RB Sunrise Rotary gives away dictionaries

I love opening the paper and seeing our stories. I just opened Friday's North County Times (I'm a little behind on my reading - what can I tell you?) and found this in the local section:

RB Sunrise Rotarians provide dictionaries for area third-graders

Rancho Bernardo Sunrise Rotarians, in back, from left, Michael Rennie, Susy and Bill Allen, and, in front, Janna Markley, present dictionaries to students at Painted Rock Elementary School in Poway.

The Painted Rock students were among the nearly 1,350 third-graders at 11 San Diego-area schools to receive free dictionaries from the RB Sunrise Rotary Club. Project coordinator Steve Redd organized the effort in cooperation with the SoCal Dictionary Project, which is dedicated to providing free English and Spanish/English dictionaries to all third-grade students in the nation's public schools.

The money for the project was raised during the Rotary Club's recent Freedom Ride, which generated approximately $40,000 for the club's community projects.

The RB Sunrise Rotary meets at 7:15 a.m. Tuesdays at the Country Club of Rancho Bernardo, 12280 Greens East Road. For information, go to http://www.rbsunrise.org.