O&R and Spring Valley Rotary Share the Power of Words

From Orange and Rockland: The Spring Valley Rotary Club and O&R presented dictionaries to nearly 150 third graders at the Summit Park School (April 19).

The presentation was part of the Rotary’s ongoing effort to support educational projects in the community. O&R donated $1,000 to help make the project a success in five elementary schools in the East Ramapo School District.

“Every third grader in the district gets his or her own dictionary as part of the Spring Valley Rotary Club’s Literacy Project,” said the Club’s Dictionary Project Coordinator Ed Frank.

O&R’s Regional and Community Affairs Director Neil Winter, a member of the Spring Valley Rotary, said, “Words are the keys to everyday life, knowledge and success. Those keys can help open up the whole world for these students.”

He added, “We hope the dictionaries will help instill in our children a rich appreciation of words: their meaning, their importance and their power.”

Image via Orange and Rockland: Pictured during the Spring Valley Rotary Club’s dictionary distribution event at the Summit Park School’s third grade are, from left: O&R Regional and Community Affairs Director and Rotarian Neil Winter, Jhons Moreno-Monraga, Clare John, Ikenna Chukwuacha and Rotarian and Dictionary Project Coordinator Ed Frank.